“LOOK!” SHE CRIED
“Then it’s no use,” said Pennie. “We’ve been there already.”
“They were asleep,” said Florrie, “and we woke them up, and they didn’t like it a bit. They wouldn’t get up for any foolish old star,—that’s what they said. But they told us about you, and that’s how we came to hunt you up. But the horrid gnomes wouldn’t do a thing for us; they wouldn’t even get up.”
“They’re not horrid,” said Merrimeg. “Oh dear, I don’t know what we’re going to do now.”
She looked down sadly into the dark water of the pool, trying to think what to do next. She gave a little jump of surprise, and looked harder. Far, far down, away down deep under the water of the pool,——
She saw a star.
“Look!” she cried, and pointed her finger at it.