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Rh to indicate gills—and out of these one could peep without being seen.

She put her eye to the right-hand hole, from which she could see the other fish, and made another discovery: there were holes in that one also, and she was sure that Plum-Blossom's eye was looking out of the nearest one. She took her face from the aperture, and put a finger through and wiggled it. Then she put her eye back, very quickly, and saw, as she had expected, Plum-Blossom wiggling her finger!

There was no time for another signal, for now the feet were growing louder, and the Dragon himself might be coming, after all.

Up the steps they came, then there was a pause; and then she could hear them again, crossing the outer court.

The doorway by which they had entered was opposite the fishes, and now they saw, framed in it, a figure almost as startling as