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"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.
Presently it ceased and then the fairy turned to him and smiled. "Oh, Counterpane Fairy!" cried Teddy, "may I go out into that garden?" "That I don't know," said the fairy, "but if you want to get there the best thing for you to do is find Starlein and Silverling, for they are the only ones who can show you the way into the garden." "Where are they?" asked Teddy.
Very gently they took the dove and fastened the chain to its leg, and then they let it go. It fluttered up over their heads and circled about them once or twice, and then it flew on down the hall with the little boys following it. They turned many a corner and went through many a door, and at last they came into a hall and there there was Starlein waiting for them with her doves about her.
"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."
He was so out of breath that he had begun to walk, when turning another corner he suddenly saw before him a little girl who he somehow felt sure was Starlein. Her hair was of a silvery yellow and was like a mist about her head; she was very beautiful and was dressed from head to foot in silver that shone and sparkled as she moved.
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.
"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."
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.
"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?"
"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!
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