"I don't know," replied Ozma. "She looks like a Witch! But not like any
of the Witches I've ever known about!"
"I am the Wicked Witch of the West!" shouted the woman in a maniacal
voice.
"She doesn't look like the one I remember," said the Scarecrow. "This
one has two eyes and green skin. She must be an impostor."
"I am not an impostor!" bellowed the woman.
"But," said an elderly Winkie who remembered the original Witch, "Witch
Allidap had a patch over one eye and did not dress in pure black. This
is not her at all."
"I am too me! I just feel a little different today, that's all. I will
prove to you that I am Allidap!"
[Illustration]
CHAPTER FIVE:
THE BEST LAID PLANS
It should be understood that, although the creature was really little
more than an unstable life-form produced by a one-of-a-kind series of
accidents, she believed that she was indeed the Wicked Witch of the
West. And as long as she suffered under this delusion, she was dangerous
to all of the Witch's enemies. Especially Dorothy, as her primary memory
was based upon the scene on the float, rather than any history before or
after the event depicted thereon. She was angry and afraid, these being
the emotions that were depicted in the sculpture.
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