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as well,” Watch said.
    â€œLeprechauns have a thing for watches,” Pan admitted. “But I will do everything in my power to make sure yours is returned.” He glanced at Cindy. “But they have probably eaten your chocolate cake by now.”
    Cindy smiled. “That’s OK. I lost my appetite when the fairy turned us invisible.”
    â€œYes, but that was a simple spell to break.” Pan hung his head again. “Your troubles are easily solved.”
    â€œBut there must be some way to win your kingdom back,” Adam said.
    Pan shook his head. “It’s gone. I have to learn to accept that.”
    â€œYou say you lost your kingdom fair and square,” Adam continued, ignoring his defeatist attitude. “How do you know Klandor didn’t cheat you?”
    â€œHow could he cheat?” Pan asked. “I was the one tossing the coin.”
    â€œBut the odds against losing twenty coin tosses in a row is thousands to one,” Watch said. “He must have cheated. Also, the fact that he brought stuff to wager means that he’d planned to play the game.”
    Pan was interested. “Those are good points. I have, of course, thought of them myself. But unless I can prove that Klandor cheated, there is no way to get my kingdom back. I can’t simply accuse him, he’d just laugh in my face.” Pan turned his head away. “He laughed at me as he ordered me to leave my castle.”
    â€œThat’s so sad,” Cindy said sympathetically.
    â€œI would never gamble away my entire kingdom,” Sally muttered.
    â€œYou’ll never have a kingdom,” Cindy told her. “You’llbe lucky if you can afford your own apartment when you get older.”
    â€œYou’ll probably be a homeless wretch,” Sally snapped back. “You’ll be like Bum, hanging out at the beach and feeding the birds.”
    â€œWhatever happens to me, I’ll be happy,” Cindy retorted. “Not like you. You’re going to end up in a mental hospital for people who think they’re important when they’re as insignificant as rocks.”
    â€œThey always carry on like this,” Watch explained to Pan. But Pan was too lost in his own problems to take much notice.
    â€œGambling has always been a weakness with me,” he admitted.
    â€œI am confused by a remark you made,” Adam said to Pan. “You said, ‘In fact, I lost back to him almost everything I had won.’” Adam paused. “Did he let you keep anything you’d won?”
    Pan paused. “He let me keep his crystal necklace.”
    â€œWhy?” Watch asked.
    Pan shrugged. “Maybe he felt sorry for me.”
    â€œKlandor doesn’t sound like a ‘feel sorry for’ kind of guy,” Sally remarked.
    â€œDid you wear this necklace while you were making your bets?” Adam asked.
    Pan nodded. “I had it around my neck. I won it near the beginning, when I was winning things.”
    Adam and Watch gave each other knowing looks. “Did Klandor suggest you put it on?” Watch asked.
    Pan had to strain to remember. “Now that you mention it, I think he encouraged me. Yes, I remember now he said how nice the crystal went with my two horns.” He paused. “But what does the necklace have to do with losing my kingdom?”
    â€œDid you start to lose after you put on the necklace?” Adam asked.
    â€œYes,” Pan said reluctantly. “But I lost before I put it on as well.”
    â€œWhat Adam is asking,” Watch said, “is if you lost a lot before you put on the necklace? Naturally you’d lose some with or without the necklace.”
    Pan was troubled. “It’s hard to remember everything that happened that night because it was so upsetting. But it does seem that after I put on the necklace, I lost a lot more.”
    â€œDid you win any bets after you put it on?” Adam