She went to the bed, laid a hand on her husband's pillow, and whispered:" 'Wife and babe below the river, Twice will I come and then come never.' "Without another word she turned and went slowly past John and down the stairs." "I know _that_, anyhow," Honoria interrupted.

"That's 'East of the Sun and West of the Moon,' or else it's the Princess whose brother was changed into a Roebuck, or else--" But George flicked a pebble at her, and Taffy went on, warming more and more to the story:-- "In the morning, when the Prince woke, his second wife saw his pillow on the side farthest from her, and it was wet.

'Husband,' she said, 'you have been weeping to-night.' 'Well,' said he, 'that is queer, though, for I haven't wept since I was a boy.

It's true, though, that I had a miserable dream.' But when he tried to remember it, he could not.
"The same thing happened on the second night, only the dead wife said:" 'Wife and babe below the river, Once will I come and then come never.' "And again in the morning there was a mark on the pillow where her wet hand had rested.

But the Prince in the morning could remember nothing.