[The Magic City by Edith Nesbit]@TWC D-Link bookThe Magic City CHAPTER XI 13/20
'Does Mr.Noah know? What has she been doing ?' 'Everything you can think of,' said the captain; 'she says she's Queen, and that she's done the seven deeds.
And Mr.Noah doesn't know, because she's set a guard round the city, and no message can get out or in.' 'The Hippogriff ?' said Lucy. 'Yes, of course I thought of that,' said the captain.
'And so did she. She's locked it up and thrown the key into one of the municipal wells.' 'But why do the guards obey her ?' Philip asked. 'They're not _our_ guards, of course,' the captain answered.
'They're strange soldiers that she got out of a book.
She got the people to pull down the Hall of Justice by pretending there was fruit in the gigantic books it's built with.
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