w path which led up the
glen.

"It was the voice of Edwy, and the answering echo, which William had
heard. He had got at just a sufficient distance from the sound of the
coach-wheels at the moment when the echo had returned poor little
Edwy's wildest shriek.

"The sound was fearful, broken, and not natural; but William was not
easily put out; he looked back to his master, and his look was such
that Mr. Lawley immediately left the bridge to follow him, though
hardly knowing why.

"They both went on up the glen, the man being many yards before the
master. Another cry and another answering echo again reached the ear of
William, proceeding as from before him. The young man again looked at
his master and ran on. The last cry had been heard by Mr. Lawley, who
immediately began to step with increasing quickness after his servant,
though, as the valley turned and turned among the rocks, he soon lost
sight of him.

"Mr. Lawley was by this time come into the very place where the echo
had most astonished Edwy, because each reverberation which it had made
seemed to sound from opposite sides; and here he heard the cry again,
and heard it distinctly. It was the voice of a child first, crying,
'No! no! no! Papa! mamma! Oh, come! Oh, come!'--and then a fearful
shriek or laugh of some wild woman's voice.

"Mr. Lawley rushed on, winding swiftly between the rocks, whilst
various voices, in various tones, which were all repeated in strange
confusion by the echoes, rang in his ears; but amid all these sounds he
thought only of that one plaintive cry, 'Papa! mamma! Oh, come! Oh,
come!' Suddenly he came out to where he saw his servant again, and with
him an old woman, who looked like a witch. She had the hand of a little
ragged child, to which she held firmly, though the baby, for such
almost he was, struggled hard to get free, crying, 'Papa! mamma! Oh,
come! Oh, come!'

"William was arguing with the woman, and he had got the other hand of
the child.

"Mr. Lawley rushed on, trembling with hope, trembling with fear--could
this boy be his Edwy? William had entered his service since he had lost
his child; he could not therefore know him; nor could he himself be
sure--so strange, so altered, did the baby look.

"But Edwy knew his own father in a moment; he could not run to meet
him, for he was tightly held by the gipsy, but he cried:

"'Oh, papa! papa is come to Edwy!'

"The old woman knew Mr. Lawley, and saw that the child knew him