ad destroyed the House of Living Alone? Did
you think you could escape from it?"

Sarah Brown said nothing. She watched the witch call Harold her
Broomstick to her, and adjust the saddle and tighten the strap round his
middle. She watched her mount and embark upon the sunny air. The three
Americans were talking politics, and did not notice anything but each
other. The witch alighted for a moment on one spike of the crown of
Liberty, and climbing carefully down on to the lady's parting, was seen
by Sarah Brown to bend down till her head hung apoplectically upside
down, and gaze long and curiously into that impassive bronze eye.
Presently she remounted Harold, and, with a flippant and ambiguous
gesture of her foot, launched herself eastward. She disappeared without
looking back.

The dock was reached. Sarah Brown collected David her Dog, and Humphrey
her Suit-case. Hers was a very wieldy family. An official asked her
something, using one side of his mouth only to do so, in the alarming
manner of American officials.

"I cannot hear you," said Sarah Brown. "I am stone deaf."

And she stepped over the threshold of the greater House of Living Alone.

THE END

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