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It certainly did him no harm that his master was a politician who waspleased to advertise his liberal principles to the world by entrusting themanagement of his house and business to a black servant. Then the stone creatures tore themselves from thewalls of the pavilion and began to crawl and waddle down and across the icetowards the Willises. I am glad to be back, said Strange. We will go a little way into the trees.

But the Greysteels were notto be made gloomy, nor put off a very good dinner, by such trifles as these. You mayremember I told you. They were built by magic. they wrotethe note forthwith and gave it to their landlady, so that she might deliver it tothe old lady straightaway.