More
guards were yelling now, running along the foot of the wall to keep
the fugitive in sight, and people began to pour out of the houses
and join in the chase.
Poor Ghip realized that if he kept on the wall, he would merely
circle the city and finally be caught. If he leaped down into the
City, he would be seized at once. Just then he came opposite the
camp of the Pinkies and decided to trust himself to the mercies of
his Earth friends rather than be made a prisoner by his own people,
who would obey the commands of their detested but greatly feared
Boolooroo. So suddenly he gave a mighty leap and came down into the
field outside the city. Again he fell in a heap and rolled over and
over, for it was a high wall and the jump a dangerous one; but
finally he recovered and got upon his feet, delighted to find he had
broken none of his bones.
Some of the Blueskins had by now opened a gate, and out rushed a
crowd to capture the fugitive; but Ghip-Ghisizzle made straight for
the camp of the Pinkies, and his pursuers did not dare follow him
far in that direction. They soon gave up the chase and returned to
the City, while the runaway Majordomo was captured by Captain
Coralie and marched away to the tent of Rosalie the Witch, a
prisoner of the Pinkies.
THE GIRL AND THE BOOLOOROO
CHAPTER 23
Trot watched from the window the escape of Ghip-Ghisizzle but did
not know, of course, who it was.
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