"
"Ay, mother. Each party may guard one side or other of the truth in
all honesty and faithfulness; he who cannot with his whole heart cast
in his lot with either,--he is apt to serve no purpose, and to be
scorned."
"Nay, Ebbo, may he not be a witness to the higher and more perfect
truth than either party have conceived? Nor is inaction always
needful. That which is right towards either side still reveals
itself at the due moment, whether it be to act or to hold still. And
verily, Ebbo, what thou didst say even now has set me on a strange
thought of mine own dream, that which heralded the birth of thyself
and thy brother. As thou knowest, it seemed to me that I was
watching two sparkles from the extinguished Needfire wheel. One rose
aloft and shone as a star!"
"My guiding-star!"
"The other fulfilled those words of the Wise Man. It shone and ran
to and fro in the grass. And surely, my Ebbo, thy mother may feel
that, in all these dark days of perplexity and trial, the spark of
light hath ever shone and drawn its trail of brightness in the gloom,
even though the way was long, and seemed uncertain.
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