The Shepherd’s Flute, 10.
behind him, and went slowly up the Guirs to his
Tower-room. He had stood but a short time at the
little dormer widow, his eyes bent towards the val¬
ley, when he saw his wife, with a curiousieating
gait, which he had never noticed in her, hurry across
the meadow in the direction of the lighbouring forest,
from whosebringing the music of the flute rang out at
her aproach. She soonéeppcared among the trees,
and the next moment Erasmus heard the flute fall
silent.