the others convince scraps to return to the emerald city, where she can be magically repaired. scraps agrees, but she hides herself under a sheet as she walks through the city streets (like ojo in "the patchwork girl of oz"); she causes a panic when she is mistaken for a ghost. yet ozma has no trouble in restoring scraps to normal (if that term applies) with her magic belt. popla and alexample are welcomed into the ever-growing circle of ozma's followers.