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As he watched the flowers, the dusk
deepened into darkness ; yet the strange
flowers did not fade from sight, but
showed ever more brightly; and [it
seemed to him as though their petals
moved, or flickered, as the flame of a / \
fire flickers. Then, full of wonder, i
Evan went toward the flowers to exa- / ‘

 

mine them; and as he went toward
them, he saw here and there other
groups of these flowers, so that pre-
sently the meadows were alight with /~
them and all yellow; but when he | ’
stooped to pluck any of them, Hi
these had gone; wherethey had == ~

Gy Or eee
stood the snow was melted in “SiR :
a ring, and the green grass was oy
bare.

And as Evan stood in the
midst of the meadows he
saw a great black shadow
that was shaped like a wolf
come out from the nearest
fringe of forest.

Although the wolf was distant