The two little boys stood looking about them and wondering what they
could use. Suddenly Teddy clapped his hands so the dove in his tunic
started. "We'll fasten the end of your golden chain to it," he cried.

No sooner said than done. In a moment Silverling had taken the chain
from his neck and unfastened the ends. It was so long that it had been
twisted several times around his neck. Very gently they took the dove
and fastened the chain to its leg, and then they let it go.

It fluttered up over their heads and circled about them once or twice,
and then it flew on down the hall with the little boys following it.

They turned many a corner and went through many a door, and at last they
came into a hall and there--there was Starlein waiting for them with
her doves about her.

"Oh, Starlein!" cried Silverling.

"Oh, Silverling!" cried Starlein.

They ran to each other and threw their arms about each other's necks and
kissed, while the white doves flew circling about them. Then they told
each other how sorry they were that they had quarrelled, and that they
would never do it any more, and then they kissed again.

"And you may have the golden chain, Starlein," said Silverling.

"No, no! you must keep it," said Starlein.