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II Thoughts Of Home |
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"For good--for your whole life?" asked Bumpo in a low voice. For some moments the Doctor, frowning, made no answer. "I don't know," he said at last--"Anyhow for the present there is certainly no hope of my leaving. It wouldn't be right." The sad silence that followed was broken finally by a knock upon the door. With a patient sigh the Doctor got up and put on his crown and cloak again. "Come in," he called, sitting down in his chair once more. The door opened and a footman--one of the hundred and forty-three who were always on night duty--stood bowing in the entrance. "Oh, Kindly One," said he, "there is a traveler at the palace-gate who would have speech with Your Majesty." "Another baby's been born, I'll bet a shilling," muttered Polynesia. "Did you ask the traveler's name?" enquired the Doctor. "Yes, Your Majesty," said the footman. "It is Long Arrow, the son of Golden Arrow." |
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