Page 96 - Adventures in shadow-land

them, and before the soft, rosy light could dawn
again, that they would be with her.

There was nothing for it, however, but pa-
ticnce, and at List, after a day which had seemed

at least a year long, darkness covered the valley;
and although Eva had fully intended to keep

awake until the children's return, her eyes, try

and resolve as she might, would not stay open,
and she slept.