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Updated: June 14, 2025
So the matter was handed over to the police, and I was directed to make inquiries, and to keep my eye on this Quadling" he jerked his thumb towards the platform, where the body might be supposed to be. "This Quadling was the only surviving partner. He was well known and liked in Rome, indeed, many who heard the adverse reports disbelieved them, I myself among the number. But my duty was plain "
It did not greatly please him to have this story of the Countess's relations with Quadling, as first hinted at by the police, endorsed now by his friend Papillon. Clearly she had kept up her acquaintance, her intimacy to the very last: why otherwise should she have received him, alone, been closeted with him for an hour or more on the very eve of his flight?
It was a clandestine acquaintance too, or seemed so, for Sir Charles, although a frequent visitor at her house, had never met Quadling there. What did it all mean? And yet, what, after all, did it matter to him? A good deal really more than he chose to admit to himself, even now, when closely questioning his secret heart.
"So have I," said Dorothy. "But goodness me! the Quadling Country is full of dangers," declared Jack. "I've never been there myself, but " "I have," said the Scarecrow. "I've faced the dreadful Hammerheads, which have no arms and butt you like a goat; and I've faced the Fighting Trees, which bend down their branches to pound and whip you, and had many other adventures there."
And yet I am quite satisfied it is not him. For the simple reason that " "Yes, yes, go on." "That Quadling in person is standing out there among the crowd." M. Floçon was the first to realize the full meaning of Colonel Papillon's surprising statement. "Run, run, La Pêche! Have the outer doors closed; let no one leave the place."
She had denied acquaintance with this murdered man, Quadling, and here was positive evidence that they were on intimate terms! "He was at her house on the very day we all left Rome in the evening, towards dusk.
"In fact, Jinxland is a little slice taken off the Quadling Country, but separated from it by a range of high mountains, at the foot of which lies a wide, deep gulf that is supposed to be impassable." "Then Jinxland is really a part of the Land of Oz," said he. "Yes," returned Glinda, "but Oz people know nothing of it, except what is recorded here in my book."
Then, as Quadling again threatened to stab her, she was compelled to accept this last chance, never hoping to win out alive. "With Quadling's assistance, however, she succeeded in climbing out through the window and in gaining the roof. He had told her to wait for the first occasion when the train slackened speed to leave it and shift for herself.
Ozma nodded with a troubled little frown, and Betsy bustled off importantly. Not many little girls are called upon to help settle wars and rule a country as wonderful as Oz. The Horners and Hoppers are a quarrelsome and curious folk living in the Quadling mountains, and soon Ozma, Jack Pumpkinhead, Betsy and the Wizard of Oz were rattling off at the best speed the Sawhorse could manage.
"I am Ruler of all the Land of Oz, which includes the Gillikin Country, the Quadling Country, the Winkie Country and the Munchkin Country, as well as the Emerald City, and being the Princess of this fairyland it is my duty to make all my people wherever they may be happy and content and to settle their disputes and keep them from quarreling.
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