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Then they all listened, and sweeter and clearer than ever before they heard the voice of the singing fountain in the beautiful garden. "It is the fountain!" cried Starlein and Silverling, half fearfully. They each caught Teddy by the hand, and all ran down the hall together, and the very first corner that they turned they found themselves at the door of the garden.
"Oh, Starlein!" cried Silverling. "Oh, Silverling!" cried Starlein. They ran to each other and threw their arms about each other's necks and kissed, while the white doves flew circling about them. Then they told each other how sorry they were that they had quarrelled, and that they would never do it any more, and then they kissed again.
"Oh, little boy! little boy!" he cried, "will you come and play with me?" "Are you Silverling?" cried Teddy, breathlessly. "Yes," said the little boy. "Then come! come quick!" cried Teddy. "Starlein is just around the corner, and she is waiting for you to come and show us the way into the garden where the singing fountain is."
The people were very disputatious, being willing to spend seventy silverlings in litigation costs for the sake of gaining one silverling, and did their utmost to lengthen their disputes at law. When on say that Moses was about to cast a decision against him, he demanded that his lawsuit be adjourned, declaring that had witnesses and other proofs, which he would bring forward on the next occasion.
"And you may have the golden chain, Starlein," said Silverling. "No, no! you must keep it," said Starlein. "Oh, I know what we'll do!" cried Silverling; "we'll give it to this little boy, because if it hadn't been for him we wouldn't have found each other." "Oh, yes!" said Starlein. But Teddy held up his hand "Hush!" he whispered; "don't you hear it?"
He must be in some of the halls, but I've been hunting and hunting ever since and I can't find him." Then Teddy told her how the Counterpane Fairy had said that he must find Silverling and Starlein and that then perhaps he could get into the garden where the singing fountain was. The little girl shook her head again.
"I am Starlein," she said, "but I can't take you into the garden, because I have never found the gate into it since Silverling went away," and she went over and sat down on a marble bench beside the wall, and all the doves settled about her on her knees and shoulders. "Never mind," cried Teddy, bravely, "you wait here and I'll go and find him. I found you and I'll find him too."
"We found it in the garden and we quarrelled about who should wear it, but I'd be so glad to give it to Starlein now if she would only come back again." "Well, wait!" said Teddy. "She can't be far away and I'll go and find her." "No, no!" cried Silverling. "You can't find her, and I'll lose you too. Stay here awhile, little boy, and play with me, for I'm very lonely. Look!
'Say, canst not come to us one momentling, * Like milk of ewekin or aught glistening And eat what liketh thee of dainty cake, * And take thy due of fee in silverling, And bear whatso thou wilt, without mislike, * Of spanling, fistling or a span long thing?"
Then he turned and walked quietly down the hall and into another. He went on and on, but he did not run and jump now, for he was thinking. After a while, when he turned into another hall he once more saw Silverling at play with his silver ball. "Did you find her?" cried Silverling, eagerly. "Yes," said Teddy, "I found her, and she sent you a dove for your very own; but, Silverling, I think this.
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