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Tik-Tok of Oz

CHAPTER Twenty-One
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He neglected to thank the young ladies for their kindness, but gave them a surly nod of farewell and staggered down the path by the way he had come.

They let him depart in silence, for with all he had taken, the masses of jewels upon the ground seemed scarcely to have been disturbed, so numerous were they.

Also they hoped they had seen the last of the degraded King.
"I'm awful glad he's gone," said Betsy, sighing deeply.

"If he doesn't get reckless and spend his wealth foolishly, he's got enough to start a bank when he gets to Oklahoma." "But my brother--my dear brother! Where is he ?" inquired Shaggy anxiously.

"Have you seen him, Queen Ann ?" "What does your brother look like ?" asked the Queen.
Shaggy hesitated to reply, but Betsy said: "He's called the Ugly One.
Perhaps you'll know him by that." "The only person we have seen in this cavern," said Ann, "has run away from us whenever we approached him.


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