, and he
decided that if anyone entered his room, he would get through the
window, leap down upon the wall, and try in this way to escape. It
would be a dangerous leap, for as his arms were bound, he might topple
off the wall into the garden; but he resolved to take this chance.
Therefore, when Trot rattled at the door of his room, Ghip-Ghisizzle
ran and seated himself upon the window sill, dangling his long legs
over the edge. When she finally opened the door, he slipped off and let
himself fall to the wall, where he doubled up in a heap. The next
minute, however, he had scrambled to his knees and was running swiftly
along the garden wall.

Trot, finding the window open, came and looked out, and she saw the
Majordomo's tall form hastening along the top of the wall. The guards
saw him, too, outlined against the sky in the moonlight, and they began
yelling at him to stop, but Ghip-Ghisizzle kept right on until he
reached the city Wall, when he began to follow that. 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. Then, after the City had quieted down
again, she lay upon the