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Chapter Three


the door knob and mirror into his pocket. "I'm getting ready to disappear. How do I look?"

Before the Prime Pumper had time to answer, the Elegant Elephant was gone.

Back in his own room, Kabumpo paced impatiently up and down, waiting for night. "I do not see how she could refuse us," he mumbled every now and then to himself.

That was an anxious afternoon and evening in the palace of Pumperdink. Every few minutes the Courtiers felt themselves nervously to see if they were still

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