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Updated: June 24, 2025
I am so sorry for my brother Hector that for his sake I will do as you bid me, in the hope that afterwards you will tell me where the Golden Ivy-seed is to be found, so that Hector may be saved from Rumpty-Dudget's tower.
But the next moment the thought came to her of her poor little brother Hector, standing in the hundred-and-first corner of Rumpty-Dudget's tower, with his face to the wall and his hands behind his back.
So up he jumped, and he and Hilda kissed each other heartily, for they felt as if they had been separated for a long time. 'What has become of the black spot on your forehead, Hilda? asked Harold. 'It is not there any more. 'Ah! said Tom, 'that disappeared when the King of the Gnomes kissed her. But now make yourselves ready, children, for we are going to take a ride to Rumpty-Dudget's tower.
'We are now above the reach of the north wind, remarked the cat; 'and this is the only tree in the forest tall enough for our purpose. All the clouds hereabouts, as you see, are blown by the south wind and by the west. If we rode on one blown by the north we should be driven straight into Rumpty-Dudget's power.
However, he managed to say, in a tolerably smooth voice: 'Little Prince Hector, there, is my man after all! He will come through the hole, and see the pretty things, won't he? Now, Prince Hector was a sturdy little fellow, and afraid of nothing; so he put his hand in Rumpty-Dudget's and said boldly: 'Yes, I'll go; but if your garden isn't any prettier than you are I shan't want to stay long.
But early in the morning, just before they awoke, she would kiss their eyelids once more and flit away out of the round window; and the white cat, with his yellow eyes and his thick tail, would come purring comfortably in at the door. It was Rumpty-Dudget's birthday the only day in the whole year on which he had power to creep through the hole in the hedge and prowl about the Queen's grounds.
A strong stem, with leaves of glistening gold, had pushed itself out of the earth, and was creeping along the ground towards Rumpty-Dudget's tower: hardly creeping, either, for it moved faster than a man could run. The cat helped Hilda and Harold to a seat on two of the largest leaves, while he himself clung to the stem; and so away they went through the forest merrily.
Your brother Hector will then be in greater danger than ever, and the only way you can save him will be to get into the fire yourself and burn! Prince Harold did not much like the idea of being left alone in the woods all night, with the sound of Rumpty-Dudget's axe coming ever nearer and nearer. Still, since it was for his little brother Hector's sake, he never dreamed of refusing.
As they advanced the heavy grey cloud which had overcast all the heavens since Rumpty-Dudget's rule began was rolled back like a mighty scroll; and the pure sky, lit up with the fresh sunshine of the early dawn, smiled above the mysterious forest.
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