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 sort. I'm a bit stiff and out of practice, but if you have a bottle anywhere about, I might try."

"But I don't want to get rid of you," said Fen, "an' 'sides, I haven't a bottle. Please sit down here where I can see you better. You're so very high, you know."

Laughing, the young man telescoped himself into a chair. Fen's eyes grew very perplexed again.

"But I always thought genii were all 'black an' horrible to look upon'; but you look just like anybody—that is," he added hastily, flushing a little, "not just like anybody, but like a person, you know."

"Ah!" cried Siddereticus, "I have to disguise myself, you see. Even in Egypt people would stare if they saw a Blue Djinn, with a rather greenish face and a long white beard, walking about. I have to make myself look like other people."

"Oh!" said Fen, slowly. 9