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When Master Peter Bateman ran away after seeing his friend into the theatre and past the dragon he did not run far.
That curious, gigantic flower, with petals of fluttering palm leaves and pistil and stamens of pyramidal gas-jets, was still a-bloom in the darkness, and a friendly hail from beneath it arrested his steps.