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Rh then, if nothing happens, on into the castle itself."

"Oh, but think of the Dragon!" Plum-Blossom almost wailed.

Cherry-Bloom leaned nearer and said impressively:

"I don't believe there is any Dragon!"

At this moment their mother spoke from the next room.

"Someone is talking who ought to be asleep," she said. "Do not let me hear any more of it."

So the little girls ceased whispering, but it was a good while before either of them fell asleep.

Plum-Blossom was quite resolved not to go to the Dragon's castle, but at the same time she was afraid that Cherry-Bloom the strong-willed would make her go in spite of herself; and so it proved, for early on the following morning, two little figures, one with a pink obi, and one with a blue, might have been seen going down