fire sang with him, clear and thin, and sounding like the voice of the
Counterpane Fairy,--

"Hammer and turn!
The fire must burn,
The coals must glow,
The bellows blow.
Beat, good hammer, loud and fast;
So the chain will be made at last.

"Clankety-clink!
We forge the link.
My hammer bold,
This chain must hold.
The snow shall melt, the ice fly fast,
For the magic chain is wrought at last."

With these words Teddy threw down the hammer and lifted the chain he had
made, and it was as thin as a hair, as light as a breath, and yet so
strong that no power on earth could break it.

The dwarfs sprang forward with a shout and caught the chain in their
crooked fingers. "Wonderful! wonderful!" they cried. "It is indeed the
magic chain that we have been trying to make for all these years. Who
are you, wonderful stranger, for there is no smith among all the dwarfs
who can do what you have done?"

Then without a word Teddy raised his hand, and held it up with the palm
turned toward them so that they saw the ruby in his ring, and when they
saw it they shouted again in their wonder and joy. "It is King Fireheart