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g，hurrying，and the soft pad-pad-pad went on.
At last they came to what appeared to be a great castle，though few of the windows in it were lighted. Here they were taken in and made to cross a courtyard，and to climb many staircases. This brought them in the end to a great murkily lit hall. But in one corner of it—oh joy ！—there was an archway filled with a quite different sort of light；the honest，yellowish，warm light of such a lamp as humans use. What showed by this light inside the archway was the foot of a staircase which wound upward between walls of stone. The light seemed to come from the top. Two Earthmen stood one on each side of the arch like sentries，or footmen.
The Warden went up to these two，and said，as if it were a password：
“Many sink down to the Underworld.”
“And few return to the sunlit lands,”they answered，as if it were the countersign. Then all three put their heads together and talked. At last one of the two gnomes-in-waiting said，“I tell you
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