About an hour after darkness set in the younger population of Hez began moving toward the magic chamber, and among them were Dick, the professor, Haypole and Lucky.
Each of these escorted the fair one to whom he had been engaged, and the Yankee and the transformed darky presented an amusing spectacle as they made their way along in the procession.
Dick was more or less elated at being at the head of the line with the beautiful queen at his side, and for the time being he forgot all about Leo.
When they reached the magic chamber, he found it was lighted by a number of brightly burning torches, stuck in niches in the rocky walls.
Almost as soon as he and Queen Olive entered a strain of music struck up, he knew not from where, and he found his partner and himself leading a fantastic, weird march.
Back and forth, through the roomy cavern, they made their way, the boy doing as the queen directed him.
At length, after about ten minutes of this sort of thing, the music suddenly ceased and everybody came to a halt.
Then it again struck up, and the opening dance began.
It was very similar to the old-fashioned Virginia reel, and our friends had little or no difficulty in going through the figures.
Prof. Easy seemed to be in his seventh heaven.