THE THREE FATES USHERED BETTY WITH GREAT POMP AND CEREMONY TO THE CHAIR FACING THE WIZARD
“That you may know your fate,” he went on, “I give you this talisman.”
Now, Betty had no mind to be teased as Dorothy had been, and receiving the talisman from the wizard, she slipped it into her pocket.
Then, as the wizard dismissed her, she rose to take leave.
“Thou mayst not depart until thou shalt exhibit thy talisman,” said Harry Harper, striking a dramatic attitude before the door.
“Oh, yes, I mayst,” said Betty. “Avaunt thee, Fate, and let me pass, or I cast o’er thee my magic spell!”
“Already hast thou done that,” said Harry, his tone exaggeratedly sentimental.
“Let the witch pass!” interrupted Elmer Ellis, and, amid the chuckling exclamations of the three, Betty departed.
“What did you get?” “What’s your talisman?” cried those who awaited her. “Let’s see your fate!”
But Betty laughingly showed her empty hands, and could not be persuaded to admit that she had received anything. But as soon as she could get a moment unobserved, she took out her talisman to examine it.