There they were wed, I think, for the trees still whisper of his tender wooing.
But the three children were in great distress. They were all separated, and were so small that they had little chance of finding each other; for a distance that is only a few paces to a giant, may be several miles to a tiny dwarf.
CHAPTER XX.
IN THE DEN OF THE SPINSTER SPIDER
THE East Wind soon repented of his rage, and, feeling not a little ashamed of the harsh way he had treated the children, he came back to apologise. Finding Tibbs sitting alone upon a pebble, he murmured his deep regrets.
But Tibbs was in no mood to forgive him easily.
“It’s pretty easy for you to say you’re sorry, and all that, after you’ve blown my sister and brother and Miss Smiler——”
“Don’t mention that Camel’s name!” interrupted the East Wind, “or I shall get annoyed again!”
“Anyhow, you’ve blown them to—to smithereens. And then you come to me and say you’re sorry! But, if you’re a sport at all, the first thing you ought to do is to find them for me, or at least tell me where they are,” continued Tibbs.