“But they killed my children and——”
At that moment the lost star appeared over the tree tops, coming on towards them in a streak of white light, and in another moment the three starlight fairies stood on the ground, and Winnie was swinging the star in her hand.
“Oh! oh!” she said, and began to laugh and cry at the same time. She couldn’t say another word, for joy.
“We’ve got it!” cried Florrie. “We can go home now!”
“But what about these poor babies?” said Merrimeg. “Can’t we do anything for them?”
The three fairies knelt around the three tiny bodies on the ground, and looked closely at their foreheads.
“Why,” said Pennie, “it’s nothing but a bruise!”
“So it is,” said Winnie and Florrie together.
“Is that all?” said Merrimeg.
“Is that all?” said the water sprite, looking very helpless and pitiful.