chater three the ae it glry (第4/15页)
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Then the dark men came round them in a thick crowd, smelling of garlic and onions,their white eyes flashing dreadfully in their brown faces. They put a rope halter round Jewel’s neck. They took the King’s sword away and tied his hands behind his back. One of the Calormenes,who had a helmet instead of a turban and seemed to be in command,snatched the gold circlet off Tirian’s head and hastily put it away somewhere among his clothes. They led the two prisoners uphill to a place where there was a big clearing. And this was what the prisoners saw.
At the centre of the clearing,which was also the highest point of the hill,there was a little hut like a stable,with a thatched roof. Its door was shut. On the grass in front of the door there sat an Ape. Tirian and Jewel,who had been expecting to see Aslan and had heard nothing about an Ape yet,were very bewildered when they saw it. The Ape was of course Shift himself,but he looked ten times uglier than when he lived by Caldron Pool,fo