Meantime, until they should come again at night, there was nothing
for
him to do but forge new rhymes, now his only weapons. He had no
intention of using them at present, of course; but it was well to have a
stock, for he might live to want them, and the manufacture of them
would
help to while away the time.
CHAPTER XX
IRENE'S CLUE
THAT same morning, early, the princess woke in a terrible fright.
There
was a hideous noise in her room--of creatures snarling and hissing and
racketing about as if they were fighting. The moment she came to
herself, she remembered something she had never thought of again-what
her grandmother told her to do when she was frightened. She
immediately
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