"Come, Sally, you know we must." "I cannot, I cannot!" lamented Sally.

"You go with Ritz and tell them at home how it is; perhaps Erick cannot find the road again." At this conjecture which, only now after she had uttered it, Sally saw plainly, she began to weep and sob piteously, while Edi took Ritz by the hand and ran toward home as quickly as possible.
Mother and Aunt were standing before the parsonage, looking in all directions to see if the children would not make their appearance somewhere.

'Lizebeth ran to and fro, hither and thither, and asked of the returning children of the neighborhood, where the parsonage children were.

She received the same answer from all: the three were still below by the Woodbach, and were waiting for Erick, who had gone alone.

At last Ritz and Edi came running through the darkness.