THE CHILDREN
Said Valentine: "We need not go with the Piper, and yet we can leave the Wood of Daylight-Gone. Silvanus told us. Just as I woke up I remembered what he said.
"We can go to Circe the Enchantress and ask of her our way into the world. We can go to Circe because we have been through the Dark Forest."
"Oh, how wonderful of you to know that, Valentine," said Golden Hood.
"And now I will think of how we may come to Circe," said Valentine.
"Picus knows. Picus can bring us to Circe," said John Ball.
"We will go to her," said Valentine, "we will go now, and, since we have been through the Dark Forest, she will surely show us the way out of the Wood of Daylight-Gone."
The other children were drinking at the Well of Good Luck and making ready to go. They called to Valentine and John Ball and Golden Hood and waved their hands to them. Then
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