"and we shall hold you responsible for it unless you can prove
your innocence."

"How can we do that?" asked the girl.

"That I am not prepared to say. It is your affair, not mine.
You must go to the House of the Sorcerer, who will soon discover
the truth."

"Where is the House of the Sorcerer?" the girl enquired.

"I will lead you to it. Come!"

He turned and walked down the street, and after a moment's hesitation
Dorothy caught Eureka in her arms and climbed into the buggy. The boy
took his seat beside her and said: "Gid-dap Jim."

As the horse ambled along, drawing the buggy, the people of the glass
city made way for them and formed a procession in their rear. Slowly
they moved down one street and up another, turning first this way and
then that, until they came to an open square in the center of which
was a big glass palace having a central dome and four tall spires on
each corner.



3. The Arrival Of The Wizard


The doorway of the glass palace was quite big enough for the horse and