CASPIAN'S ADVENtURE IN tAINS
AFtER tutor conversations on top of t to eacion Caspian learned more about Old Narnia, so t t t t come back, filled nearly all of course many o spare, for no. ing and riding, so tag and cut oric, ion, and of course ory, tle Laical part proper study for princes. "And I myself," magician and can do only t experiments." Of Navigation ("," said tor) aughe sea.
deal by using tle boy en Narnia axes were ern and Miraz was a cruel man.
After some years time deal of bustle and pot le and doctors came and tiers or Cornelius after he had been only a few hours in bed.
"Are o do a little Astronomy, Doctor?" said Caspian.
"or. "trust me and do exactly as I tell you. Put on all your clothes; you have a long journey before you."
Caspian o utor and old at once. or said, "I for you. e must go into t room and fill it uals from your able."
"My gentlemen-in-ing here," said Caspian.
"t asleep and or. "I am a very minor magician but I can at least contrive a charmed sleep."
t into teclemen-in-ing up t ttle flask of good o t fitted on by a strap over Caspian's scaking books to school.
"or.
"Yes," said Caspian.
"t tle over all to . t's rig go to t toalk."
op of to all like t arva and Alambil) Doctor Cornelius said,
"Dear Prince, you must leave tle at once and go to seek your fortune in the wide world. Your life is in danger here."
"hy?" asked Caspian.
"Because you are true King of Narnia: Caspian tentrue son and o your Majesty' - and suddenly, to Caspian's great surprise, ttle man dropped down on one knee and kissed his hand.
" does it all mean? I don't understand," said Caspian.
"I your Majesty kno Miraz is a usurper. began to rule even pretend to be tector. But telmarine lords, , eit. Belisar and Uvilas ing party: by c ended. All t to figs on tier till one by one ted for treason on a false c up as madmen. And finally elmarines did not fear to sail aern Ocean, and, as ended, t ed to become King. And of course he did."
"Do you mean s to kill me too?" said Caspian.
"t is almost certain," said Doctor Cornelius.
"But o? And w harm have I done him?"
" you because of somet wo he Queen has had a son."
"I don't see 's got to do ," said Caspian.
"Don't see!" exclaimed tor. "ory and Politics taug? Listen. As long as you ser you, but ranger. No o be t King. You are in t of the way."
"Is ?" said Caspian. "ould he really murder me?"
"or Cornelius.
Caspian felt very queer and said nothing.
"I can tell you tory," said tor. "But not noime. You must fly at once."
"You'll come h me?" said Caspian.
"I dare not," said tor. "It er. tracked t be very brave. You must go alone and at once. try to get across to t of King Nain of Arco you."
"Shall I never see you again?" said Caspian in a quavering voice.
"I or. " friend your Majesty? And I tle magic. But in time, speed is everyts before you go. ttle purse of gold alas, all treasure in tle ss. And ter."
in Caspian's wo be a horn.
"t," said Doctor Cornelius, "is test and most sacred treasure of Narnia. Many terrors I endured, many spells did I utter, to find it, is t be t is said t may o call Queen Lucy and King Edmund and Queen Susan and er back from t, and t all to rig may be t it , King Caspian: but do not use it except at your greatest need. And notle door at ttom of too t part."
"Can I get my rier?" said Caspian.
"ing for you just at the orchard."
During taircase Cornelius ried to take it all in. t or, a run across trier, and so King Caspian tent tle of o celebrate the new prince.
All nigry t aftero trier ed as er at tears o saying good-bye to Doctor Cornelius, felt brave and, in a o seek adventures, . But frightened and small.
As soon as it . ook off Destrier's bridle and let e some cold ctle ly fell asleep. It e afternoon inued ill souted lanes. alains gros.
Destrier became uneasy; tered a dark and seemingly endless pine forest, and all tories Caspian rees being unfriendly to Man croo er all, a telmarine, one of t dorees be unlike otelmarines, trees could not be expected to knohis.
Nor did tempest, tree fell rig be, Destrier, quiet!" said Caspian, patting rembling ning flas crack of to break t overhead.
Destrier bolted in good earnest. Caspian trengto , but folloree after tree rose up before t avoided. t too suddenly to (and yet it did oo) sometruck Caspian on the forehead and he knew no more.
o place hand.
"And no decide o do ."
"Kill it," said anot let it live. It ray us."
"e ougo at once, or else let it alone," said a t kill it no after aken it in and bandaged its ."
"Gentlemen," said Caspian in a feeble voice, "o me, I o my poor horse."
"Your aken flig voice - a curiously iced.
"No let it talk you round s pretty ill say-"
"s!" exclaimed t going to murder it. For s do you say, truffleer? s?"
"I s a drink," said t voice, presumably truffleer's. A dark s an arm slipped gently under ly an arm. t bent to it c. "It's a mask of some sort," t Caspian. "Or per all." A cupful of somet and to t moment one of t screamed revealed t o a man's face but a badger's, telligent t ainly been talking. oo, t ttle bearded men, so mucer and or Cornelius t once for real D D a drop of last. to swim again.
In t feruffleer; and kindest of ted to kill Caspian is, rumpkin.
"And no evening up and talk, "ill o decide o do a great kindess by not letting me kill it. But I suppose t is t a prisoner for life. I'm certainly not going to let it go alive - to go back to its oray us all."
"Bulbs and bolsters! Nikabrik," said trumpkin. "alk so un isn't ture's fault t it bass a tree outside our t looks like a traitor."
"I say," said Caspian, "you yet found out o go back. I don't. I to stay me. I've been looking for people like you all my life."
"t's a likely story," groelmarine and a you? Of course you to go back to your own kind."
"ell, even if I did, I couldn't," said Caspian. "I s to kill me. If you'd killed me, you'd o please him."
"ell noruffleer, "you don't say so!"
"Erumpkin. "'s t? o fall foul of Miraz at your age?"
"h his hand on his dagger.
"t only a telmarine but close kin and o our greatest enemy. Are you still mad enougo let ture live?" abbed Caspian trumpkin got in to and held him down.
"Norumpkin. "ill you contain yourself, or must truffleer and I sit on your head?"
Nikabrik sulkily promised to beo tell ory. 's silence.
"t trumpkin.
"I don't like it," said Nikabrik. "I didn't knoories about us still told among t us tter. t old nurse, noer ongue. And it's all mixed up tutor: a renegade D.
"Don't you go talking about t understand, Nikabrik," said truffleer. "You Dful and c, I am, and a Badger c good . true King of Narnia rue King, coming back to true Narnia. And s remember, even if D, t Narnia was never rig when a son of Adam was King."
"les and rumpkin. "You don't mean you to give try to humans?"
"I said not t," ans's not Men's country (ter t it's a country for a man to be King of. e badgers o kno. ter a Man?"
"Do you believe all tories?" asked trumpkin.
"I tell you, cs," said truffleer. "e don't forget. I believe in ter and t t reigned at Cair Paravel, as firmly as I believe in Aslan himself."
"As firmly as t, I dare say," said trumpkin. "But who believes in Aslan nowadays?"
"I do," said Caspian. "And if I believed in Aslan ories about talking Beasts and Dimes I did times I there you are."
"t's rigruffleer. "You're rigrue to Old Narnia you sever to your Majesty."
"You make me sick, Badger," groer and t may t sort of Men. telmarines. ed beasts for sport. you, now?" he added, rounding suddenly on Caspian.
"ell, to tell you trut t talking Beasts."
"It's all thing," said Nikabrik.
"No, no, no," said truffleer. "You kno isn't. You kno ts in Narnia no and are no more tless creatures you'd find in Calormen or telmar. too. t from us the half-Dwarfs are from you."
t deal more talk, but it all ended t Caspian say and even t, as soon as o go out, aken to see rumpkin called "tly in ts all sorts of creatures from till lived on in hiding.