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The great banquet hall seemed suddenly deserted, and except for faint / squeaks and muffled screams quite silent. Shirley Sunshine, hurrying / around the table, clasped Ozma's hands and both girls stared in stunned / silence at Jack, who was calmly replacing his head.
"Why, where have they gone? " cried Ozma. Then all at once she saw, for / tumbling from the chairs, scurrying under tables and vainly trying to / hide themselves, was a host of men no bigger than brownies.