Arthur stares at the sea-foam’s rim

Amazed. The fan-girl beckons him!—

That slender and peculiar child

Mongolian and brown and wild.

His eyes grow wide, his senses drown.

She laughs in her wing, like the sleeve of a gown.

She lifts a key of crimson stone:

“The Great Gunpowder-town you own.”

She lifts a key with chains and rings:

“I give the town where cats have wings.”