t tREASURE ;t a garden,quot; said Susan presently. quot;It le and t yard.”
quot;I see ; said Peter. quot;Yes. t is to used to be a fligeps going up to top of t teps - to t door must o t hall.”
quot;Ages ago, by t,quot; said Edmund.
quot;Yes, ages ago,quot; said Peter. quot;I le; and how long ago.”
quot;It gives me a queer feeling,quot; said Lucy.
quot;Does it, Lu?quot; said Peter, turning and looking ;Because it does to me. It is t t it all means?”
alking tyard and gone to t it errace about t .
quot;I really t; said Susan. quot; is t terrace kind of thing?”
quot;; said Peter (ed), quot;dont you see? t able . Anyone ten t on a dais just like t, in our great hall.”
quot;In our castle of Cair Paravel,quot; continued Susan in a dreamy and rat;at t river of Narnia. ?”
quot; all comes back!quot; said Lucy. quot;e could pretend we were in Cair Paravel now.
t ed in.”
quot;But unfortunately t,quot; said Edmund. quot;Its getting late, you kno it isnt so ?”
quot;e s to spend t ; said Peter. quot;Ive got matcs go and see if some dry wood.”
Everyone sa come into turned out not to be a good place for fireried tle, passing out of ttle side door into a maze of stony once tles and le epped t into a rees icks and dry leaves and fir -cones in plenty. t to and fro il t t outside t clean and freshese away.
tone pavement ran . t out to pick some more apples and t to t and place. t difficulty in lig and used a lot of matc the end.
Finally, all four sat doo to tried roasting some of ticks. But roast apples are not muc sugar, and too to eat ill too cold to be ing. So to content t sc so bad after all - quot;I s mind a good te,quot; t of adventure ed to be back at school.
Sly after t apple en, Susan out to to get anothing in her hand.
quot;Look,quot; s;I found it by t; S to Peter and sat do s be going to cry. Edmund and Lucy eagerly bent foro see ers tle, brig gleamed in t.
quot;ell, Im - Im jiggered,quot; said Peter, and to thers.
All no tle c, ordinary in size but extraordinarily iny little rubies or rat.
quot;; said Lucy, quot;its exactly like one of to play Cair Paravel.”
quot;C; said Peter to er.
quot;I cant ,quot; said Susan. quot;It brougimes. And I remembered playing cs, and tiful horse - and - and -”
quot;No; said Peter in a quite different voice, quot;its about time arted using our brains.”
quot; about?quot; asked Edmund.
quot;; said Peter.
quot;Go on, go on,quot; said Lucy. quot;Ive felt for tery his place.”
quot;Fire aer,quot; said Edmund. quot;ere all listening.”
quot;e are in tself,quot; said Peter.
quot;But, I say,quot; replied Edmund. quot;I mean, out? t all trees groes. Look at tones. Anyone can see t nobody has lived here for hundreds of years.”
quot;I kno; said Peter. quot;t is ty. But lets leave t out for t. I to take ts one by one. First point: tly t Cair Paravel. Just picture a roof on t instead of grass, and tapestries on t our royal banqueting hall.”
No one said anything.
quot;Second point,quot; continued Peter. quot;tle ly o t is exactly the same size and shape.”
Again there was no reply.
quot;t: Susan found one of our old cwo peas.”
Still nobody answered.
quot;Fourt. Dont you remember - it you remember planting tside te of Cair Paravel? test of all to put good spells on it. It little cual digging. Can you ten t funny old Lilygloves, ty, youll be glad of t trees one day. And by Jove .”
quot;I do! I do!quot; said Lucy, and clapped her hands.
quot;But look er,quot; said Edmund. quot;t be all rot. to begin plant t te. e have been such fools.”
quot;No, of course not,quot; said Peter. quot;But it o te since.”
quot;And for anot; said Edmund, quot;Cair Paravel on an island.”
quot;Yes, Ive been t. But it , a peninsula. Jolly nearly an island. Couldnt it ime? Somebody has dug a channel.”
quot;But !quot; said Edmund. quot;You keep on saying since our time. But its only a year ago since to make out t in one year castles forests tle trees ed ourselves urned into a big old orc else. Its all impossible.”
quot;t; said Lucy. quot;If t to be a door at t ting it at t. You kno led doo treasure chamber.”
quot;I suppose t a door,quot; said Peter, getting up.
them was a mass of ivy.
quot;e can soon find out,quot; said Edmund, taking up one of ticks t tting on ting tap-tap tick against tone; and again, tap-tap; and t once, boomboom, e different sound, a hollow, wooden sound.
quot;Great Scott!quot; said Edmund.
quot;e must clear t; said Peter.
quot;Os leave it alone,quot; said Susan. quot;e can try it in t to spend t an open door at my back and a great big black anyt come out of, besides t and tll soon be dark.”
quot;Susan! ; said Lucy botoo muced to take any notice of Susans advice. t ters pocket-knife till ter t they used Edmunds.
Soon tting last the door cleared.
quot;Locked, of course,quot; said Peter.
quot;But tten,quot; said Edmund. quot;e can pull it to bits in no time, and it ra firewood. Come on.”
It took ted and, before t star or t a sligood above tered off taring into they had made.
quot;Noorc; said Peter.
quot;O is t; said Susan. quot;And as Edmund said -”
quot;Im not saying it no; Edmund interrupted. quot;I still dont understand, but tle t later. I suppose youre coming doer?”
quot;e must,quot; said Peter. quot;Cs no good be we are back in Narnia.
Youre a Queen o sleep ery like their minds.”
tried to use long sticks as torc t a success. If you ed end up t out, and if you in your eyes. In to use Edmunds electric torc less ttery ne, . ter broughe rear.
quot;Ive come to top of teps,quot; said Edmund.
quot;Count t; said Peter.
quot;One - t; said Edmund, as cautiously doo sixteen.
quot;And ttom,quot; ed back.
quot;t really must be Cair Paravel,quot; said Lucy. quot;teen.quot; Notill all four anding in a knot toget t of tairorch slowly round.
quot;O - o - o - o; said all t once.
For no it treasure c mig intervals stood rics of armour, like knigreasures. In bets of armour, and on eacusks of ivory, broocs and c stones lying piled anyatoes - diamonds, rubies, carbuncles, emeralds, topazes, and amets.
Under tood great cs of oak strengt terly cold, and so still t treasures t unless t of treasures. ttle frig t all seemed so forsaken and long ago. t a minute.
t and picking to look at. It ing very old friends. If you ;Oion rings - do you remember first tle brooc - I say, isnt t t tournament in t for me? - do you remember drinking out of t horn? - do you remember, do you remember?”
But suddenly Edmund said, quot;Look nt e ttery: goodness knoter take and get out again?”
quot;e must take ts,quot; said Peter. For long ago at a Cmas in Narnia ain presents time. (t, and you can read about it in ther book.)
ter and o t treasure cs ill for it tle bottle. But ttle ead of glass, and it ill more t every ook dos place and slung t over ttle at used to had been a bow and arrows
and a ill t - quot;O; said Lucy. quot;he horn?”
quot;O; said Susan after s for a moment. quot;I remember noook it day of all, t ing te Stag. It must lost other place - England, I mean.”
Edmund ering loss; for ted , ain to come to you, wherever you were.
quot;Just t of t mig; said Edmund.
quot;Never mind,quot; said Susan, quot;Ive still got t; And sook it.
quot;ont tring be peris; said Peter.
But ill in s ttle pluck to tring. It t vibrated t one small noise brougo t . All ttles and s and feasts came ruso together.
trung t her side.
Next, Peter took do red lion on it, and to get off t. ted t first t it migy and stick to t it so. it motion and up, sorc.
quot;It is my s I killed t; tone in t er ter a little pause, everyone remembered t t save ttery.
tair again and made up a good fire and lay doogetable, but the end.