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Mahmoud, swinging his wrinkled old trunk to and fro dejectedly,

ignored the stack of fresh timothy which the Keeper had dumped on the

floor of the Elephant House. There was a band of iron clasped tightly

just above one of his great forefeet. Mahmoud had surged back in his

discontent till the chain, attached to the iron and to a ring in the

floor, creaked with the strain upon it. His broad ears flapped forward

listlessly, but not far enough to conceal the moisture in his dim old

eyes which gathered now and then into glistening drops that rolled down

his cheeks and were lost in the huge wrinkles at the corners of his

mouth. Duchess, his faithful mate, who stood at his side twisting up

bunches of hay and tucking them into her mouth, understood and was sad.

At intervals in her repast she would pause to stroke Mahmoud's furrowed

cheek with the tip of her trunk. But her sorrowful mate was not to be

wooed from his melancholy.

Presently, from a little distance up the Park walk leading to the door

of the Elephant House, came a familiar tinkling sound that caused

Mahmoud to turn his head in that direction with a show of interest.

A boy was approaching, and at every step some straps of iron on his

little crooked leg clanked together. The sound was not unlike that made

by the iron on Mahmoud's leg. The boy's face was pale, but his eyes

were blue and very bright. A little girl skipped along at his side. The

boy's clothes were shabby, but the little girl's plumage was rich and

as gay as that of some tropical bird. Perhaps it was this that caused

the boy to call her "Princess," when he made slow and deferential

response to her eager chatter. It was plain that she was accustomed

to rule, for whenever she was admonished by the young woman in dark

clothes who followed a few steps behind with a book under her arm, she

would merely shrug her pretty shoulders. Her manner toward the boy was

a trifle condescending, but it was also affectionate, for she called

him "Toots."

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