e twinklin' ob an
eye."

"No, no, Mammy," cried the young man, in a weak voice, but masterful
way, "who was it bent over me? I must know. They always thought me
wandering in mind after my fall in the pine woods. I saw a Fairy face
bending over me, and a fair creature gave me water. I saw the Fairy
again, just a glimpse, and once more, just now. I'll take neither bite
nor sup till I see her again!"

Sally had disappeared. She grew frightened at thought of having the
Fairy Prince try to find her out, and off she ran as Mammy went up to
the cot.

She was quietly feeding a man whose right arm was in a sling, when Mammy
Leezer's plump, rolling figure came toward her.

"Yo'll done hev to come and see Mars' Lion," said Mammy, "he's comin'
'roun' all right shor', for he's pert as a two-year-ole rooster! He
won't take de grool from his ole Mammy, nor anyting, till he see de
Fairy he done gone crazy 'bout. You better get some un else to feed dat
man, and tote ober to Mars' Lion."

The feeding was really through with, and Sally, trembling and flushing,
went back to the side of her Fairy Prince.

He held out his hand, and Sally put hers into it.

"Let me look at you," he said.

Sally went nearer.

"Yes, it is the very face! The one that bent over me in the woods. Tell
me," he said, "did you not give me water when I lay stunned one day near
Lover's Lane?"

"Yes," said Sally.

"And tell me," he asked again, his face getting flushed and his voice
rising, "have I not seen your face since, just for an instant? But the
eyes, the dimples, the mouth are the same. When was it?"

He was getting wrought up, and Mammy grew anxious.

"Do fo' de goodness sake tell 'im ebberyting you know, and hab done with
it!" she said, in a low tone, twitching Sally's sleeve. "It won't do to
cross 'im nohow; he'll be down with de fever jinks, first ting we know."

Sally bent over him, her dark eyes meeting his blue ones.

"They told of your being a prisoner," she said, simply, "and I thought
it a shame. I wanted to help the country, so I brought you Hotspur. You
saw me hiding in a tree. Now please let me go," and she tried to draw
away her hand.

But the Fairy Prince took the hand in both his own and softly kissed it.

His face paled, and he calmed down as he said:

"Promise me you will not go away."

"I promise not to go away until I must," said Maid Sally.

Then Mammy fed her "babby," and gave him a soothing dose of steeped
skullca