Flip Imprisoned By The King
"What should I paint, your majesty?" Flip asked.
"Paint the king a crown." Konoka said to Flip.
"Doesn't he already have one?" Flip asked Konoka in a whisper.
"Paint it or you'll be sorry you were ever born! Just like that one up there on the crest!" Konoka commanded, pushing Flip forward.
Flip climbed up onto the king's throne and began to paint a crown for the king.
Once the crown was finished, it landed upon the king's head.
"Ow!" King Snively exclaimed.
Konoka gasped, then grabbed Flip by the arm.
"YOU DUNDERHEAD! YOU NUMBSKULL! DON'T YOU KNOW BETTER THAN TO MAKE THE KING ANGRY?" Konoka asked Flip furiously.
King Snively laughed with glee, "I love it! Now, what about some gold coins?" he commanded Flip.
Flip began to paint a few gold coins for King Snively.
"More!" the king commanded Flip.
Flip began to paint a few more gold coins for King Snively.
"More!" the king commanded Flip again.
Flip painted even more gold coins for King Snively.
"More! More! I want more!" King Snively commanded Flip again.
King Snively held a few of the coins in his hands, "Oh, my dear little artiste, isn't it lucky that fate has brought you to me! Now, don't dawdle, boy, keep working!" he commanded.
Flip worked long and hard into the night, until the king had more gold coins than he knew what to do with.
"I can see this, yes! Yes! Yes!" King Snively exclaimed.
"Please, your majesty," Flip begged. "I'm tired! I's like to go home!"
"Go? You will never go, you're far to valuable to me." the king told Flip.
"You already have everything that anybody could want." Flip protested to King Snively.
"You will do as I say! Alfie! Take this guttersnipe to the dungeon and lock him up!" King Snively commanded.
Flip was immediately taken to the dungeon, thrown in.
"Perhaps a night spent in the company of rats will help you to change your mind." the king said to Flip.
Flip looked back at the king as the king locked him into his duneon.
Later on that night, Nancy and the other orphans lit a landern and went over to the castle to sneak Flip out of the king's dungeon.
Mimi screamed as a bat flew in her view.
Back in the castle, the dungeon door opened.
"Do rats bother you, Child?" King Snively asked Flip.
"Not the rats in here, Majesty!" Flip protested.
"Oh, so brave," King Snively said. "well, we'll see if you change your mind by morning."
The king then left as the captain came up to the dungeon door.
"Good luck painting in the dark, boy!" Konoka sneered at Flip.
A few minutes later, Flip saw the lantern being lowered down to him by one of his friends.
"We've been looking everywhere for you!" Alan said to Flip.
"Are you all right?" Suzie & Anne asked Flip in unison.
"I'm fine," Flip answered Suzie & Anne calmly. "I'm going to escape, leave the lantern so I can see."