I should
have to follow you about wherever you went.'
The sight vanished. Although I had no doubt that what I had seen was
an hallucination, when I moved farther on and stood and gazed at the
stream as it went winding round the mossy cliffs to join the Lledr, I
felt that Winnie was by my side, her hand in mine, and that we were
children together. And when I mounted the steps and strolled along
the path that leads to the plantation where the moonlight, falling
through the leaves, covered the ground with what seemed symbolical
arabesques of silver and grey and purple, I felt the pressure of
little fingers that seemed to express 'How beautiful!' And when I
stood gazing through the opening in the landscape, and saw the rocks
gleaming in the distance and the water down the Lledr valley, I saw
the sweet young face gazing in mine with the smile of the delight
that illumined it on the Wilderness Road when she discoursed of birds
and the wind.
The vividness of the vision of Fairy Glen drove out for a time all
other thoughts. The livelong night my brain seemed filled with it.
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