Ozma answered silently by extending her palm on which lay the halves of the broken Love Magnet.
The Shaggy Man's eyes clouded. "Oh, that is too bad. I was very fond of the Love Magnet. It always made me feel happy whenever I entered or left the Emerald City. How did it come to be broken?"
Ozma explained in a few words what had happened.
"But can't the Love Magnet be repaired?" asked the Shaggy Man. "I should think it would be an easy matter for you or the Wizard or Glinda to put it together again as good as new."
"No," Ozma shook her head. "It isn't as simple as that. A long time ago I looked up the history of the Love Magnet in my Magic Record Books and I found that, if broken, it could be made whole only by one person—the person who created it."
"And who," asked the Shaggy Man with deep interest, "is that?"
"It has been so long ago," admitted Ozma, "that I have forgotten who it was. But I can look it up in a few seconds."