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and his face beca open wounds not yet old

Suddenly there drifted up a chorus of children's laughter He sat up

suddenly and looked about, but no one was in sight Again he heard an

unly close at

hand He lay flat and looked over the ledge, holding on to a root of a

gnarled pine that grew far out at the e

Under him, not more than twenty yards below, on a similar natural

platfore with

wonderment and interest In their center, also seated on the earth, was

the Queen of Galavia She was dressed in a short walking skirt and a

blue jersey, and as the azed over, she lifted an outstretched finger of a gauntleted hand in

illustration of some particularly wonderful point of as palpably a

particularly wonderful fairy story A third burst of delight ca and responsive auditors, who had no idea by who entertained

The peasants of Galavia speak Portuguese As Benton shifted his position

so that he could eavesdrop without being discovered, he found that he

could catch some of the words