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He was dreadful!"

He was sitting at a table and examining an immense Book which had three

golden clasps," remarked the King.

Why, that must have been Glinda's Great Book of Records!" exclaimed

Dorothy. "If it is, it proves that Ugu the Shoemaker stole Ozma, and with her

all the magic in the Emerald City."

And my dishpan," said Cayke.

And the Wizard added, "It also proves that he is following our adventures in

the Book of Records, and therefore knows that we are seeking him and that

we are determined to find him and reach Ozma at all hazards."

If we can," added the Woozy, but everybody frowned at him.

The Wizard's statement was so true that the faces around him were very

serious until the Patchwork Girl broke into a peal of laughter.

Wouldn't it be a rich joke if he made prisoners of us, too?" she said.

No one but a crazy Patchwork Girl would consider that a joke," grumbled

Button-Bright.

And then the Lavender Bear King asked, "Would you like to see this magical

shoemaker?"

Wouldn't he know it?" Dorothy inquired.

No, I think not."

Then the King waved his metal wand and before them appeared a room in the

wicker castle of Ugu. On the wall of the room hung Ozma's Magic Picture, and

seated before it was the Magician. They could see the Picture as well as he

could, because it faced them, and in the Picture was the hillside where they

were not sitting, all their forms being reproduced in miniature. And curiously

enough, within the scene of the Picture was the scene they were now

beholding, so they knew that the Magician was at this moment watching them

in the Picture, and also that he saw himself and the room he was in become

visible to the people on the hillside. Therefore he knew very well that they

were watching him while he was watching them.

In proof of this, Ugu sprang from his seat and turned a scowling face in their

direction; but now he could not see the travelers who were seeking him,

The Lost Princess of Oz