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“Your orders do not forbid your telling me what I must know in ten minutes, in half an hour, or an hour.

“Well, in a few minutes I shall be all melted, and you will have the castle to yourself.

When the Wizard was given this message he was so frightened that he sent word for them to come to the Throne Room at four minutes after nine o’clock the next morning.

Promptly at nine o’clock the next morning the green-whiskered soldier came to them, and four minutes later they all went into the Throne Room of the Great Oz.