OLD NARNIA IN DANGER t tself, and ill t of t Council. to sleep under tars, to drink not er and to live cs and , range experience for Caspian after s in a tapestried c tle, on gold and silver diseroom, and attendants ready at asted more savoury, and o harden and his face wore a kinglier look.
nigrange subjects came stealing into t at s yet seen - five Satyrs as red as foxes, tingent of talking Mice, armed to teetrumpet, some O of all (and took Caspians breataurs came a small but genuine Giant, imbleher of Deadmans
ful of rated and were now wisead.
to first and leave till afteromorros could bot, and proposed storming Miraz in le t very night.
Pattertalk and eat at time, so once? trencs round t it ter to begin it ake too long to o be alloo give a brief address to t Caspian and taurs and tions and insisted on once.
ures o sit doly in a great circle, and Patterto stop running to and fro and saying quot;Silence! Silence, everyone, for t;, Caspian, feeling a little nervous, got up. quot;Narnians!quot; any furt t very moment Camillo t;heres a Man somewhere near.”
tures of tomed to being ed, and till as statues. ts all turned tion wed.
quot;Smells like Man and yet not quite like Man,quot; wruffleer.
quot;Its getting steadily nearer,quot; said Camillo.
quot;t tly off to meet it,quot; said Caspian.
quot;ell settle un,quot; said a Black Dting a s to ring.
quot;Dont s if it is alone,quot; said Caspian. quot;Catc.”
quot;; asked the Dwarf.
quot;Do as youre told,quot; said Glenstorm taur.
Everyone ed in silence rotted stealto trees on t side of t;Stop! ; and a sudden spring. A moment later a voice, ake my s if you like, dont bite rig to speak to the King.”
quot;Doctor Cornelius!quot; cried Caspian o greet utor.
Everyone else crowded round.
quot;Pa; said Nikabrik. quot;A renegade D?”
quot;Be quiet, Nikabrik,quot; said trumpkin. quot;ture cant s ancestry.”
quot;test friend and t; said Caspian. quot;And anyone doctor, I am glad to see you again. ?”
quot;By a little use of simple magic, your Majesty,quot; said tor, ;But time to go into t no all fly from t once. You are already betrayed and Miraz is on the move.
Before midday tomorrow you will be surrounded.”
quot;Betrayed!quot; said Caspian. quot;And by whom?”
quot;Anot,quot; said Nikabrik.
quot;By your rier,quot; said Doctor Cornelius. quot;te kneter. dao able in tle. t of your fligo be questioned about it in Mirazs torture cty good guess from my crystal as to erday - I saracking parties out in terday I learned t . I dont t as miged. Youve left tracks all over t carelessness. At any rate somet Old Narnia is not so dead as he move.”
quot;; said a very s tors feet. quot;Let t t me and my people in t.”
quot; on eart; said Doctor Cornelius. quot;y got grassoes - in your army?quot; ter stooping doacles, o a laugh.
quot;By t; ;its a mouse. Signior Mouse, I desire your better acquaintance.
I am ing so valiant a beast.”
quot;My friends; piped Reepic;And any D - in t give you good language so reckon h.”
quot;Is time for t; asked Nikabrik. quot; are our plans? Battle or flight?”
quot;Battle if need be,quot; said trumpkin. quot;But , and this is no very defensible place.”
quot;I dont like t; said Caspian.
quot;; said t;ever lets before supper; and not too soon after it neither.”
quot;t do not al,quot; said taur. quot;And ion instead of c ourselves? Let us find a strong place.”
quot;ts y, ts ; said truffleer.
quot;But ; asked several voices.
quot;Your Majesty,quot; said Doctor Cornelius, quot;and all you variety of creatures, I t fly east and doo t elmarines e t region. t may come over t is raditions speak true, t Cair Paravel t part is friendly to us and eful to our enemies.
e must go to Aslans how.”
quot;Aslans ; said several voices. quot;e do not kno is.”
quot;It lies s of t oods and it is a times over a very magical place, ands - a very magical Stone. t o galleries and caves, and tone is in tral cave of all. tores, and t need of cover and are most accustomed to underground life can be lodged in t of us can lie in t a pinc t) could retreat into tself, and t famine.”
quot;It is a good t; said truffleer; but trumpkin muttered under ;Soup and celery! I ales and more about victuals and arms.quot; But all approved of Corneliuss proposal and t very niger, t Aslans how.
It ainly an arees, and one little, loo it. tunnels inside maze till you got to knoones, and on tones, peering in tterns, and pictures in wed again and
again. It all seemed to belong to an even older Narnia told him.
It er taken up ters in and around t fortune began to turn against ts soon found ten urned out stronger t sank as er company arriving.
And to ttle deeply into it and sometimes almost to tself. Caspian and otains of course made many sorties into try. ting on most days and sometimes by nig Caspians party of it.
At last t o ra morning Caspian tle yet, and all . of to daybreak, and t imbleaurs and some of t beasts, o from anoto cut t off from t of t it er days of Narnia remembered) t Giants are not at all clever. Poor imblerue Giant in t respect. at time and from ty and Caspians tle of t, a Centaur terribly y blood. It rees to eat ty supper.
t of all imble been beginning to get er out of ttle blankets, and asked t in s forcible voices enoug t of told ts and not as a concert party, and asked . And imbleiptoed ao find some place ail and somebody (ter of temper.
But in t and magical c t of trumpkin, council. t re one itself - a stone table, split rigre, and covered ing of some kind: but ages of imes whe
Stone table ood on top, and t yet been built above it. t using table nor sitting round it: it oo magic a t on logs a little , and betable, on wood a rude clay lamp lighe walls.
quot;If your Majesty is ever to use t; said truffleer, quot;I time ; Caspian old treasure several days ago.
quot;e are certainly in great need,quot; ans;But it is o be sure our greatest. Supposing t?”
quot;By t argument,quot; said Nikabrik, quot;your Majesty until it is too late.”
quot;I agree ,quot; said Doctor Cornelius.
quot;And rumpkin?quot; asked Caspian.
quot;O; said tening e indifference, quot;your Majesty kno bit of broken stone over t King Peter - and your Lion Aslan - are all eggs in moonss all one to me on is t told not it. to be disappointed.”
quot;t; said Caspian.
quot;t; said Doctor Cornelius, quot;t s. e do not knoake. It mig I t is more likely to call Peter ty consorts do. But in eit t to t -”
quot;You never said a truer ; put in trumpkin.
quot;I t; on t;t to one or ot Places of Narnia. t, is t ancient and most deeply magical of all, and to come. But tern aste, up-river, of Beaversdam, ell t tle of Cair Paravel once stood. And if Aslan place for meeting oo, for every story says t Emperor-over-to send messengers to boto Lantern aste and to receive t.”
quot;Just as I t,quot; muttered trumpkin. quot;t result of all t to bring us to lose us ters.”
quot;or Cornelius?quot; asked Caspian.
quot;Squirrels are best for getting try being caug; said truffleer.
quot;All our squirrels (and ; said Nikabrik, quot;are raty. trust on a job like t tertwig.”
quot;Let it be Pattert; said King Caspian. quot;And you tor Cornelius.”
quot;I go,quot; said Nikabrik. quot;its about, t be a D treated.”
quot;torms!quot; cried trumpkin in a rage. quot;Is t o the King? Send me, Sire, Ill go.”
quot;But I t you didnt believe in trumpkin,quot; said Caspian.
quot;No more I do, your Majesty. But got to do ? I migaking orders. Youve s time for orders.”
quot;I trumpkin,quot; said Caspian. quot;Send for Pattertwig, one of you. And whe horn?”
quot;I for sunrise, your Majesty,quot; said Doctor Cornelius. quot;t sometimes in operations of e Magic.”
A fees later Patterto ement and misc to say conceit), to be off. It ern aste er journey to ter a y meal t off the Badger, and Cornelius.