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THE QUEEN IN LONDON.
'Now tell us what happened to you,' said Cyril to Jane, when he and the others had told her all about the Queen's talk and the banquet, and the variety entertainment, carefully stopping short before the beginning of the dungeon part of the story.
'It wasn't much good going,' said Jane, 'if you didn't even try to get the Amulet.' 'We found out it was no go,' said Cyril; 'it's not to be got in Babylon.
It was lost before that.

We'll go to some other jolly friendly place, where everyone is kind and pleasant, and look for it there.

Now tell us about your part.' 'Oh,' said Jane, 'the Queen's man with the smooth face--what was his name ?' 'Ritti-Marduk,' said Cyril.
'Yes,' said Jane, 'Ritti-Marduk, he came for me just after the Psammead had bitten the guard-of-the-gate's wife's little boy, and he took me to the Palace.

And we had supper with the new little Queen from Egypt.