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118 . Peter, what are you to me?

(through the pipes). Your son, Wendy.

. Oh, good-bye!

(The travellers start upon their journey, little witting that has issued his silent orders: a man to the mouth of each tree, and a row of men between the trees and the little house. As the children squeeze up they are plucked from their trees, trussed, thrown like bales of cotton from one pirate to another, and so piled up in the little house. The only one treated differently is , whom  escorts to the house on his arm with hateful politeness. He signs to his dogs to be gone, and they depart through the wood, carrying the little house with its strange merchandise and singing their ribald song. The chimney of the little house emits a jet of smoke fitfully, as if not sure what it ought to do just now.

and ''are now, as it were, alone on the island. Below, is on the bed, asleep, no weapon near him; above, , armed to the teeth, is searching noiselessly''