A DUEL IN A DESERT
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You have made the agreement, and must abide by it. Drop your wands!"
The wands fell upon the sand.
"Go home, and work!"
They went home and worked, and neither of them married a princess or lived happily ever after.
Merlin laughed softly to himself, and remarking, "There's a couple of dunces!" changed himself back into a messenger-boy, signed his receipt himself, and walked away over the desert. Soon he disappeared over the horizon, and all was still.
