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THE ENCHANTED CASTLE
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There was a pause while you could have counted ten. Then——

"Yes," said Gerald bravely, through the scent and the silence and the darkness, "it's just a dream, Jimmy, old chap. We'll just hold on, and call out now and then just for the lark of the thing. But it's really only a dream, of course."

"Of course," said Jimmy in the silence and the darkness and the scent of old earth.