Mazes and Monsters
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“We must go back now and tell them,” he said. “But wait—what of the treasure? Would it not be fine to have the treasure, since we have come so far and fought so hard?”
Jay Jay slipped the dull-black steel Porsche watch off his wrist. He held it out to show Robbie, and then he put it around Robbie’s wrist. “This is the treasure, Pardieu,” he said.
“Ah,” Pardieu said in wonder. “Is it magic?”
“Yes,” Jay Jay said. “It will always keep you safe.” He put his arm around Robbie and kissed him on the cheek.
Then they all linked arms and walked slowly up to the house.
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Lines from “To the Wife of a Sick Friend” by Edna St. Vincent Millay: From COLLECTED POEMS, Harper & Row. Copyright 1928, 1955 by Edna St. Vincent Millay and Norma Millay Ellis.
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