The handsome chessmen were used for minarets.

He made forts and garrisoned them with lead soldiers.
He worked hard and he worked cleverly, and as the cities grew in beauty and interestingness he loved them more and more.

He was happy now.

There was no time to be unhappy in.
'I will keep it as it is till Helen comes.

How she will _love_ it!' he said.
The two cities were connected by a bridge which was a yard-stick he had found in the servants' sewing-room and taken without hindrance, for by this time all the servants were his friends.