BLUE MAGIC
said Fen's mother. "Here's Father now—he'll carry you down."
"Please," begged Fen; "just a few minutes more! I—I feel as if it was sort of special to-night. The lights are so nice—an' please, if you don't mind, I'd rather be all alone."
"Well," said his mother, "five minutes—but not more than that. Isn't it queer, Hal?" she added, as she walked toward the bow with her husband. "I never heard of children wanting to be alone, to watch things, the way he does."
A dark figure slipped quietly into a chair beside Fen, and a low voice remarked: "I came to kiss you good-night, mio caro."
"Oh, oh!" whispered Fen. "I didn't think it would really work! The lights were so lovely, an' everything was so still, an' I just held the amulet an' said, 'Come,
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