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 made the whole party look so grave and anxious.)

Alice could think of nothing else to say but “It belongs to the Duchess: you’d better ask about it.”

“She’s in prison,” the Queen said to the executioner; “fetch her here.” And the executioner went off like an arrow.

The Cat’s head began fading away the mo­ment he was gone, and by the time he had come back with the Duchess, it had entirely disappeared; so the King and the executioner ran wildly up and down looking for it, while the rest of the party went back to the game.