with torches they hastened to the wood , and although they lit up every dark recess and leafy gloom , their search was in vain . leelinau was nowhere to be seen . they called aloud , in lament , upon her name , but she answered not . suns rose and set , but nevermore in their light did the bereaved parents eyes behold the lost form of their beloved child . their daughter was lost indeed . whither she had vanished no mortal tongue could tell ; although it chanced that a company of fishermen , who were spearing fish near the spirit grove , descried something that seemed to resemble a female figure standing on the shore . as the evening was mild and the waters calm , they cautiously pulled their canoe toward land , but the slight ripple of their oars excited alarm . the figure fled in haste , but they could recognize in the shape and dress as she ascended the bank , the lost daughter , and they saw the green plumes of her fairy - lover waving over his forehead as he glided lightly through the forest of young pines .
the slight ripple of the fishermen 's oars .
what made leelinau flee ?
what made leelinau flee ?