chater ne the witch’ hue (第10/13页)
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the pieces stand on a chess-board when it is half-way through the game．There were stone satyrs，and stone wolves，and bears and foxes and cat-mountains of stone．There were lovely stone shapes that looked like women but who were really the spirits of trees．There was the great shape of a centaur and a winged horse and a long lithe creature that Edmund took to be a dragon．They all looked so strange standing there perfectly life-like and also perfectly still，in the bright cold moonlight，that it was eerie work crossing the courtyard. Right in the very middle stood a huge shape like a man，but as tall as a tree，with a fierce face and a shaggy beard and a great club in its right hand．Even though he knew that it was only a stone giant and not a live one，Edmund did not like going past it．
He now saw that there was a dim light showing from a doorway on the far side of the courtyard．He went to it；there was a flight of stone steps going up to an open door．Edmund went up them． Across the thresh
