The alarm was sounded.
The loyal Palace Guards were stationed in the Palace, at all the park entrances and exits, at all the bridges and along the road leading to town.
A meeting of the State Council was called.
All the guests left.
The Three Fat Men were weighed by the chief Palace doctor.
Despite all the excitement, they had not lost a single bit of fat.
The chief Palace doctor was then arrested and given nothing to eat but bread and water.
Palace servants found the doll that belonged to Tutti the Heir lying in the tall grass.
It had not seen the eclipse of the sun.
It was broken beyond repair.
Tutti the Heir could not stop crying.
He hugged the broken doll and sobbed.
The doll looked just like a little girl.
It was as big as Tutti. This was a very expensive, beautifully made doll.
Now her dress was all torn, and there were big black holes in her chest from the soldiers' swords.
An hour before she could sit and stand, smile and dance, but now it was only a scarecrow, a heap of rags.
Somewhere in the neck and chest, under the pink silk, a broken spring creaked, just as an old wall clock creaks before striking the hour.
"She's dead!" Tutti cried.
"Oh, she's dead!"
Little Tutti was not a wolf-cub.
"The doll must be fixed," the State Councillor told the meeting of the State Council. "The grief of Tutti the Heir knows no bounds.
The doll must be repaired at all costs!"
"We will buy him another doll," the ministers said.
"Tutti the Heir does not want another doll.
He wants this doll brought to life."
"But who can fix it?"
"I know," said one of the ministers.
"Who?"
"Gentlemen, we have forgotten that Doctor Caspar Arnery lives in town.
He can do anything.
He will fix the doll that belongs to Tutti the Heir."
There was great rejoicing in the room.
"Hooray!" they all shouted.
And then the entire State Council sang together:
Doctor Caspar Arnery, What a clever man is he! He can trap the sliest fox, He can crack the hardest rocks, He can fly from here to Mars, He can reach the farthest stars.
And they immediately sat down to write out an order addressed to Doctor Caspar. This is what they wrote:
Doctor Caspar Arnery,
The State Council of the Government of the Three Fat Men is sending you a broken doll that belongs to Tutti the Heir and hereby orders you to repair the doll by tomorrow.
If the doll becomes as healthy and alive-looking as before, you will have whatever you wish as your reward. If you do not do as we order, you will be severely punished.
(Signed) State Councillor
The State Councillor then signed the paper.
And they put the big State Seal on it.
It was round, with a picture of a bag full of money in the centre.
Count Bonaventura, Captain of the Palace Guards, took two men and set out for town to find Doctor Caspar Arnery and hand him the order of the State Council.
They rode on horseback. A carriage followed.
In it was a Palace official, holding the doll on his lap.
Its lovely curly head rested on his shoulder.
Tutti the Heir stopped crying.
He was told that they would bring his doll back hale and hearty the very next morning.
The rest of the day passed uneasily at the Palace.