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THE STORY WITHOUT AN END
to visit him, and to take him with it. And the Child breathed quick with joy and surprise, and then the Will-o’-the-wisp came nearer and sat himself down on a damp mossy stone in front of the cave, and another fluttered quickly after him, and sat down over against him, and sighed deeply, “Thank God, then, that I can rest at last!”
“Yes,” said the other, “for that you may thank the innocent Child who sleeps there within; it was his pure breath that freed us.” “Are you then,” said the Child, hesitatingly, “not of yon stars which wander so brightly there above?” “Oh, if we
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