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CHAPTER FIVE

        CASPIAN''S ADVENtURE IN tAINS

        AFtER tutor    versations on top of t to ea Caspian learned more about Old Narnia, so t t t t e 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,"    magi and    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 elius 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 mini but I    at least trive a charmed sleep."

        t into teclemen-in-ing    up t ttle flask of good o t    fitted on by a strap over Caspian''s sg 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 elius said,

        "Dear Prince, you must leave tle at ond 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: Caspiarue 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 uand," said Caspian.

        "I    your Majesty kno Miraz is a usurper.    began to rule    eveend to be tector. But telmarine    lords, , eit. Belisar and Uvilas ing party: by ded. All t    to figs oill one by oed for treason on a false c up as madmen. And finally elmarines did not fear to sail aern O, and, as e ed to bee King. And of course he did."

        "Do you mean s to kill me too?" said Caspian.

        "t is almost certain," said Doctor elius.

        "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 elius.

        Caspia very queer and said nothing.

        "I    tell you tory," said tor. "But not noime. You must fly at once."

        "You''ll e h me?" said Caspian.

        "I dare not," said tor. "It er. tracked t be very brave. You must go alone and at ory 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 elius, "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 Lud King Edmund and Queen Susan and er back from t, and t all t may be t it , King Caspian: but do not use it except at yreatest need. And notle door at ttom of too t part."

        " I get my rier?" said Caspian.

        "ing for you just at the orchard."

        During taircase elius    ried to take it all in. t or, a run across trier, and so King Caspiale of o celebrate the new prince.

        All nigry t    aftero trier ed as er at tears o    saying good-bye to Doctor elius, felt brave and, in a    o seek adventures,    . But    frightened and small.

        As soon as it . ook off Destrier''s bridle a 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 uelmarirees 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 ear. Caspian     trengto    , but     folloree after tree rose up before t avoided. t too suddenly to    (a 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 bas    ."

        "Gentlemen," said Caspian in a feeble voice, "o me, I o my poor horse."

        "Your aken flig voice - a curiously iced.

        " 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 elius t    once for real D D a drop of     last. to swim again.

        In t feruffleer;    and ki 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 ye?"

        "h his hand on his dagger.

        "t only a telmari close kin and reatest enemy. Are you still mad enougo let ture live?" abbed Caspian trumpkin    got in to    and held him down.

        "Norumpkin. "ill you tain 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, nue. And it''s all mixed up    tutor: a renegade D.

        "Don''t you go talking about t uand, Nikabrik," said truffleer. "You Dful and c, I am, and a Badger    c good . true King of Narnia    rue King, ing 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 try (ter t it''s a try 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 fet. I believe in ter and t t reig 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 talkis 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 talkis."

        "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 en or telmar. too. t from us the half-Dwarfs are from you."

        t deal more talk, but it all e 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.
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