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y brothers and sisters are already on the ground.”
“What,Lady! Felling Lantern Waste ? Murdering the talking trees ?”cried the King,leaping to his feet and drawing his sword.“How dare they ? And who dares it ? Now by the Mane of Aslan-”
“A-a-a-h,”gasped the Dryad shuddering as if in pain-shuddering time after time as if under repeated blows. Then all at once she fell sideways as suddenly as if both her feet had been cut from under her. For a second they saw her lying dead on the grass and then she vanished. They knew what had happened. Her tree, miles away,had been cut down.
For a moment the King’s grief and anger were so great that he could not speak. Then he said:
“Come,friends. We must go up river and find the villains who have done this,with all the speed we may. I will leave not one of them alive.”
“Sire,with a good will,”said Jewel.
But Roonwit said,“Sire,be wary in your just wrath. There are strange doings on foot. If there should be reb