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whatever his will may desire"


This Is some more of your stuff and
nonsense, out Of old fairy tales, where
everybody gets three wishes, and no
good out of any of them"
mo. my love, because l shall put
them to quite practical uses. For you
must know that when / have found
out the cantrap which will release the
bees Of Toupan-"
Gisele showed plainly that his fool
ishness did not concern her. She
sighed, and hung the sword in it's &C.
customed place. "Oh, but am weary
of this endless wizardry!"
"Then, wife," says Miramon, then
why are you perpetually meddling
with what you do not understands
II think" said Ninzian, at once, for
this demon, too, was married, 81 think
that had best be going"
But Giseles attention was reserved
for her husband. 81 NEEDLE, as you so
very politely call it, because you have
no sense of what is right and proper,
and no sense of morals, and no sense
| of expediency, and in fact. no sense
at ALL"
Mramon said, "Now. dearest-!"
Sir Ninzian was hastily picking up his
nat. But Gisele continued, with that
| resistless and devastating onflow which
Is peculiar to tidal waves and the
tongue of her who speaks for her hus-
bands own good.
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time of it, but in particular do pity
the woman that is married to one Of
you moonStruck artists. She has not
half a husband, she has but the tend
ing of baby with long legs"
1t is so much later than l thought
that really now" observed Ninzian.
ineffectively.
And I might have had an earl,
or well-thought-of-ba who would
have had the decency to remember our
anniversary and my birthday, and in
any event would never have been In
the house twenty-four hours a day.
instead here l am tied to a middle
head who fritters away his time con-
! triving dreams that nobody cares about
one way or the other. Yet If only YOU
would be sensible about your silly bus
mess could put up with the inconven-
fence of having you underfoot every
moment. People need dreams to help
them through the night, and nobody
enjoys really good dream more than
do when / have time for it, with the
million and one things that are put
upon me. But dreams ought to be
wholesome, they ought to point an up-
lifting moral, and certainly they ought
not to be about incomprehensble thin
nonsense that nobody can halfway un-
derstand. They ought, in other words,
to make you feel that the world is a
pretty good sort Of place after ALL
"But, wife, I am sure that it is"
says MiramOn, mildly.
Then the more shame to YOU! and
the very least you can do is to keen
such morbid notions to yourself, and
not be upsetting other peoples repose
with them"
81 employ my natural gift, express
myself and none other. The rosebush
does not put forth wheat, nor fax
either" returned the wizard, with a
tired shrug. I'm fine, what would you
have?
"Oh, great deal 1t means to you
what prefer! But if 1 had my wish
your silly dream-making would be
taken away from you so that we might
live sensibly."
Now as she spoke Gisele slammed
viciOuSly at the black cross. And a
thing happened to behold which would
have astOnished the magi and the en-
chanters who had given over centuries
to searching for the cantrap which
would release the bees of Toupan For
now without any exercise of magic
the securing rag swept from the stone
one Of these insects Koshchei, who
made all things as they are, had de-
creed, they report. that these bright
perils could be freed only in the most
obvious way, because he knew this
would be the last method ATTEMPTED
by any learned persons.
Now for an instant the walls of the
ivory tower were a-quiver like blown
! wells. And the bee passed glitteringly
to the window, and through the clear
glass of the closed window, leaving a
small round hole there as the creature
went to join it's seven fellows in the
Pleiades.
Toupan, afloat in the void, Enclosed
his ancient unappeasable eyes; and
Jacy returned to his afOretime estate
in the moon, and all plants and trees
everywhere were withered, and the
sea also lost it's greenness, and there
were no more emeralds. And the High
Gods were appalled, to see their doom
so near at hand, and they cried out to
Koshchei who devised them.
Koshchei answered: "Have ma.
tience! When Toupan is released l
fall with you. Meanwhile I have made
all things as they are"
And in that instant Miramon Llua-
gOr, as he stood blinking In his ivory
tower, was aware of a touch upon his
forehead, as If damp sponge were
passing over it, and he perceived that
he had forgotten the secret Of his wiz.
ardry. Something he could yet recall,
they say. of the magic Of the Purin
and the cast stones, Of the Horse and
the Bull. Of the Water, and most of
the lore Of the Apsarasas and the
Faidhin rune remained to him. He
could still make shift, he knew, to con.
troll The bitter Duergar. to build the
fearful bridge Of the White Ladies, or
10 contrive the dance Of the KOrred.