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crambled to their feet and joined hands. One wanted the touch of a friend’s hand at a moment like that. And the Earthmen came all round them,padding on large,soft feet,on which some had ten toes,some twelve,and others none.
“March,”said the Warden:and march they did.
The cold light came from a large ball on the top of a long pole,and the tallest of the gnomes carried this at the head of the procession. By its cheerless rays they could see that they were in a natural cavern;the walls and roof were knobbed,twisted,and gashed into a thousand fantastic shapes,and the stony floor sloped downward as they proceeded. It was worse for Jill than for the others,because she hated dark,underground places. And when, as they went on,the cave got lower and narrower,and when, at last,the light-bearer stood aside,and the gnomes,one by one, stooped down(all except the very smallest ones)and stepped into a little dark crack and disappeared,she felt she could bear it no longer.
“I can’