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Show j ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS II BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON rp through the sky sailed Nanc and. Nick in tin ii Magic Green Shoes, carry-1 'Ing with them the white mountain flower I thai thi bright Star had admired. Also ! N i. k had his precious p.ox of Charms l on't think for one minute he would ever I forget that. They were Just in lime getting B.Waj I from the lop ol the mountain, for they could hear the swish of the eagles wings' (the w icked P-ohndl! .linn Ii was to tell I The twins came closer to the star, which was swinging happily on a rope hang- ing from a corner of tho moon ' you the truiiij. and they knew that ho was lusi as likely as not lo carry them both ..ft aginii to some dreadful place. Yes. they Wore safer in Ihe sky among I tho slurs. j The eagle did nol try lo follow- very fur. ; The sound of his wings suddenly ceased land the twins supposed he had returned I to earth. The white flower In Nancy's , hand moved, but w hen she looked ut It I curiously It was still again Up and up they went until they came , . 4. quiti close to the star. It was swinging; happily on a long tope bunging from a corner ot the moon. "Oh. hello." It called. "Here you are at last. I've been wailing a. id Waiting Come along to my house, and i ' I tell you how you may get to the South Pole safe. 1 I v. With my sharp eyes I have spied I out a secret passage. And thank you for I the lovely flower you hnve brought " The twins were looking about curious ly . "Vou are not A bit like Mr. Morning Si. ii-," said Nancy. "We visited him once.' "That's right." nodded tbe star But we stars aro all different, as different as grains of sand are from mountains Besides some of US are whole worlds and ;.re little like me and Use in glass houjea so they may shine through. Here we are now." Vnd the si-.r slopped heforc a little house oi crystal, all points like himself. |