At the word "letter," Hyacinth started suddenly. "Oh, Prince Udo," she cried, "I can never forgive myself. I've just remembered the very thing. Father told me in his letter that a little couplet he once wrote was being very useful for--er--removing things." "What sort of things?" said Udo, not too hopefully. "Oh, enchantments and things." Udo was a little annoyed at the "and things"--as those turning him back into a Prince again was as much in the day's work as removing rust from a helmet. "It goes like this," said Hyacinth. "_Bo, boll, bill, bole._ _Wo, woll, will, wole._" "It sounds as though it would remove _anything_," she added, with a smile. Udo sat up rather eagerly. "I'll try," he said. "Is there any particular action that goes with it?" "I've never heard of any. I expect you ought to say it as if you meant it." Udo sat up on his back paws, and, gesticulating freely with his right paw, declaimed: "_Bo, boll, bill, bole._ _Wo, woll, will, wole._" He fixed his eyes on his paws, waiting for the transformation. He waited. And waited. Nothing happened. "It must be all right," said Hyacinth anxiously, "because I'm sure Father would know. Try saying it more like this." She repeated the lines in a voice so melting, yet withal so dignified, that the very chairs might have been expected to get up and walk out. Udo imitated her as well as he could. At about the time when Wiggs was just falling asleep, he repeated it in his fiftieth different voice. "I'm sorry," said Hyacinth; "perhaps it isn't so good as Father thought it was." "There's just one chance," said Udo. "It's possible it may have to be said on an empty stomach. I'll try it to-morrow before breakfast." Upstairs Wiggs was dreaming of the dancing that she had given up for ever. And what Belvane was doing I really don't know. CHAPTER XV THERE IS A LOVER WAITING FOR HYACINTH So the next morning before breakfast Wiggs went up on to the castle walls and wished. She looked over the meadows, and across the peaceful stream that wandered through them, to the forest where she had met her fairy, and she gave a little sigh. "Good-bye, dancing," she said; and then she held the ring up and went on bravely, "Please I was a very good girl all yesterday, and I wish that Prince Udo may be well again." For a full minute there was silence. Then from the direction of Udo's room below there came these remarkable words: "_Take the beastly stuff away, and bring me a beefsteak and a flagon of sack!_" Between smiles and tears Wiggs murmured, "He _sounds_ all right. I _am_ g--glad." And then she could bear it no longer. She hurried down and out of the Palace--away, away from Udo and the Princess and the Countess and all their talk, to the cool friendly forest, there to be alone and to think over all that she had lost.