Others were also disappointed by his capture. Button-Bright had
heard the parrot squawking, "Oh, there's Cap'n Bill! There's Cap'n
Bill! I see him still, up on that hill! It's Cap'n Bill!" So the boy
ran out of his tent to find the sailor scurrying along the top of
the wall as fast as he could go. At once Button-Bright aroused
Coralie, who got her Pinkies together and quickly marched them
toward the wall to assist in the escape of her Commander in Chief.
But they were too late. Before they could reach the wall, the
Blueskins had captured Trot's old friend and lugged him down in to
the City, so Coralie and Button-Bright were forced to return to
their camp discomfited. There Ghip-Ghisizzle and Rosalie were
awaiting them, and they all went into the Witch's tent and held a
council of war.
"Tell me," said Ghip-Ghisizzle, "did you not take the Royal Record
Book from the Treasure Chamber of the Boolooroo?"
"I did," replied the boy. "I remember that you wanted it, and so I
have kept it with me ever since that night. Here it is." And he
presented the little blue book to the Majordomo, the only friend the
adventurers had found among all the Blueskins.
Ghip-Ghisizzle took the book eagerly and at once began turning over
its leaves. "Ah!" he exclaimed presently. "It is just as I
suspected. The wicked Boolooroo had already reigned over the Blue
Country three hundred years last Thursday, so that now he has no
right to rule at all.
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