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"So what do you think it means?" she said, bewildered

"Itabout the city You'll find the o"

He stood up painfully, and glanced up at the littleLyra could hear excited voices in the street, cries of alarm; someone had found the witch's body

"You can slip out of the yard at the back of this house," said Sebastian Makepeace, "andbeside the ironworks No one will see you"

"Thank you," she said "Mr Makepeace, do you really turn lead into gold?"

"No, of course not No one can do that But if people think you're foolish enough to try, they don't bother to look at what you're really doing They leave you in peace"

"And what are you really doing?"

"Not now Perhaps another tio"

He showed theate between the ironworks and the canal path, and then close it again fro to Walton Well Road, and from there it was only ten minutes' walk back to the school, and the open pantry , and their Latin

"Thank you," she said to Mr Makepeace "I hope you feel better soon"

"Good night, Lyra," he said

Five minutes later, in the University Park, Pan said: "Listen"

They stopped So

"A nightingale?" Lyra guessed, but they didn't know for certain