for her features were smiling and attractive and
pleasant to view. She held in her hand a slender staff tipped with a
lustrous pink jewel.

All the Pinkies present bowed very respectfully to Rosalie, who
returned the salutation with a dignified nod. Then Tourmaline began to
explain the presence of the three strangers and the difficulty of
deciding what to do with them.

"I have summoned you here that you may cast the deciding vote," added
the Queen. "What shall we do, Rosalie, allow them to remain here as
honored guests, or toss them over the bushes into the sky?"

Rosalie, during Tourmaline's speech, had been attentively examining the
faces of the three Earth people. Now she said,

"Before I decide, I must see who these strangers are. I will follow
their adventures in a vision to discover if they have told you the
truth. And in order that you may all share my knowledge, you shall see
the vision as I see it." She then bowed her head and closed her eyes.

"Rock-a-bye, baby, on a treetop;
Don't wake her up, or the vision will stop,"

muttered the parrot, but no one paid any attention to the noisy bird.

Gradually, a pink mist formed in the air about the Witch, and in this
mist the vision began to appear.

First, there was Button-bright in the attic of his house, finding the
Magic Umbrella. Then his first flight was shown, and afterward his trip
across the United States until he landed on the bluff where Trot sat.
In rapid succession the scenes shifted and disclosed the trial flights,
with Trot and Cap'n Bill as passengers, then the trip to Sky Island and
the meeting with the Boolooroo. No sound was heard, but it was easy
from the gestures of the actors for the Pinkies to follow all the
adventures of the strangers in the Blue Country. Button-Bright was
greatly astonished to see in this vision how the Boolooroo had tested
the Magic Umbrella and in a fit of rage cast it into a corner
underneath the cabinet, with the seats and lunch basket still attached
to the handle by means of the rope. The boy now knew why he could not
find the umbrella in the Treasure Chamber, and he was provoked to think
he had several times been quite close to it without knowing it was
there. The last scene ended with the trip through the Fog Bank and the
assistance rendered them by the friendly frog. After the three tumbled
upon the grass of the Pink Country, the vision faded away, and Rosalie
lifted her head with a smile of triumph at t