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globe, which was in a stand, like other globes.
He stared into it, he turned it round and
round, and Queen Rosalind saw him grow quite
pale as he gazed.

“‘T don’t see him anywhere,” said the king,
“and I have looked everywhere. I do hope
nothing has happened to the boy. He is so
careless. If he dropped his Cap of Darkness
in a fight with a giant, why who knows what
might occur ?”

“Oh, ’Gio, how you frighten me!” said the
queen.

King Prigio was still turning the crystal
globe.

“Stop!” he cried; “I ‘see a beautiful
princess, fastened by iron chains to a rock
beside the sea, in a lonely place. They must
have fixed her up as a sacrifice to a sea-monster,
like what’s-her-name.”

This proves how anxious he was, or, being so
clever and learned, he would have remembered
that her name was Andromeda.

‘“‘T bet Dick is not far off, where there is an
adventure on hand. But where on earth can
he be? . . . My word!” suddenly exclaimed
the monarch, in obvious excitement.

‘What is it, dear?” cried the queen, with
all the anxiety of a mother.

‘Why, the sea where the girl is, has turned
all red as blood!” exclaimed the king. ‘‘ Now
it is all being churned up by the tail of a