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MEANWHILE the children had gone home, only to find no May there, while nurse and Lucia still searched and searched fruitlessly.
At last they thought that perhaps the little girl had also gone home, and so they set out to see, Lucia hardly bearing to tear herself away from the forest, lest the child should be there after all.