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HE children slept. Valentine and John Ball slept beside each other, and the cups that Philemon had given them were rim to rim. The same light, like the mixture of moonlight and sunlight upon a high hill in later summer, was there, and the one star dangled in the sky.

Golden Hood awakened. She saw the children sleeping under the great ash trees and beside the bushy white-thorn trees. She sat up and she looked where the crocuses grew out toward the Deep Wood.

And then Golden Hood saw a shapely thing going where the crocuses grew. She watched it,