THE MIRACLE
make you too tired, I'll invoke a gondola here and now, and we'll go and lose ourselves in far canals."
The look in Fen's eyes was answer enough.
The Djinn faced toward the lagoon and stretched forth his arms. He clapped his hands slowly three times, and then drew three circles in the air with his finger, while his lips moved in some sort of silent incantation. Then, turning, he said: "There ought to be a gondola there now. Sally, go thou and look over the rail and see. I think that was the proper invocation."
Sally did as he bade her, and returned wide-eyed.
"There is a gondola there," she said solemnly, "a sure-enough one with a gondolier and all."
"Go, then, Sally,—may the birds of the air lend thee wings,—and fetch me the
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