214 THE FAIRY-FOLK OF THE BLUE HILL,

CHAPTER XVI.

CLOUDCATCHER AND HIS PRISONERS.

When King Rondo ordered the door to be
opened for Wassa to leave his domains, there
was an observer who carefully noted every-
thing that took place. This was no other than
the giant king, Cloudcatcher. Seated on the
summit of a neighboring spur of Blue Hill, he
saw what went on for miles about,— saw the
elf Toto, whom he supposed to be the fairy
prince, and watched Wassa as she walked
through the door.

The reason for King Cloudcatcher’s watch-
ing the entrance to the gnomes’ cavern was this:
when the giant Rockroller removed the rock
for Wassa and her charge to leave the land of
the Starlit Day, he did not recognize the elf
Toto the Slim in his disguise of the fairy
prince, and, thinking him to be really the son
of King Rondo, he acquainted King Cloud-
catcher with the fact, and the giant king at
once conceived the idea of capturing the young