"Must be a mistake ... I can't be awake

The orbit of Ceres is reckoned

"At three-oh-oh-ten...." Nell stepped forward then.

"O.Q., Gurk—let up for a second!"

The shimmering died, and to Dougal she cried,

"MacNeer, all we want to know

Is: Where is the gold? As soon as you've told

We promise to let you go."

"I've told you already," gasped Doug, unsteady,

"You're wrong if you think I'm rich—"