THE GOLD OF FAIRNILEE. 295

 

old earth he had left, and the changes of
summer and autumn, and the streams of
Tweed, and the hills, and his friends. Then
the voice of Jeanie had come down to him,
sounding from far away. And he was sent
up by the Fairy Queen in a fairy form, as a
hideous dwarf, to frighten her away from the
white roses in the enchanted forest.

But her goodness and her courage had saved
him, for he was a christened knight, and not a
man of the fairy world. And he had taken his
own form again beneath her hand, when she
signed him with the Cross, and here he was,
safe and happy, at home at Fairnilee.