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The Magic City

CHAPTER XII
10/27

And besides, before all these people, it would have looked like showing off.

You know, I am sure, exactly how Lucy felt.
The Pretenderette was led away.

And now Caesar stood facing the children, his hands held out in farewell.

The growing light of early morning transfigured his face, and to Philip it suddenly seemed to be most remarkably like the face of That Man, Mr.Peter Graham, whom Helen had married.

He was just telling himself not to be a duffer when Lucy cried out in a loud cracked-sounding voice, 'Daddy, oh, Daddy!' and sprang forward.
And at that moment the sun rose above the city wall, and its rays gleamed redly on the helmet and the breastplate and the shield and the sword of Caesar.


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