out all the story. When Randal
had told her how all he saw in Fairyland was changed after he had
touched his eyes with the water from the bottle, the old woman
remembered many tales that she had heard about some charm known to the
fairies, which helped them to find things hidden, and to see through
walls and stones. Then she had got the bottle from Randal, and had
stolen out, meaning to touch her eyes with the water, and try whether
_that_ was the charm and whether she could find the treasure spoken of
in the old rhymes. She went

"Between the Camp o' Rink
And Tweed water clear,"

and to the place which lay

"Between the wet land and the dry,"

that is, between the marsh and the Catrail.

Here she had noticed the three great Stones; which made a kind of
chamber on the hill-side, and here she had anointed her eyes with the
salt water of the bottle of tears.

Then she had seen through the grass, she declared, and through the upper
soil, and she had beheld great quantities of gold. And she was running
with the bottle to tell Randal, and to touch his eyes with the water
that he might see it also. But, out of Fairyland, the strange water only
had its magical power while it was still wet on the eyelashes. This the
old nurse soon found; for she went back to the three standing stones,
and looked and saw nothing, only grass and daisies. And the fairy bottle
was broken, and all the water spilt.

This was her story, and Randal did not know what to believe. But so
many strange things had happened to him, that one more did not seem
impossible. So he and Jean took the old nurse home, and made her
comfortable in her room, and Jean put her to bed, and got her a little
wine and an oat-cake.

Then Randal very quietly locked the door outside, and put the key in his
pocket. It would have been of no use to tell the old nurse to be quiet
about what she thought she had seen.

By this time it was late and growing dark. But that night there would be
a moon.

After supper, of which there was very little, Lady Ker went to bed. But
Randal and Jean slipped out into the moonlight. They took a sack with
them, and Randal carried a pickaxe and a spade. They walked quickly to
the three great stones, and waited for a while to hear if all was quiet.
Then Jean threw a white cloak round her, and stole about the edges of
the camp and the wood. She knew that if any wandering man came by, he
would not stay long where such a figure