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ked the Warden. He seemed very surprised at being spoken to,but replied,“No. They are all beasts that have found their way down by chasms and caves,out of Overland into the Deep Realm. Many come down,and few return to the sunlit lands. It is said that they will all wake at the end of the world.”
His mouth shut like a box when he had said this,and in the great silence of that cave the children felt that they would not dare to speak again. The bare feet of the gnomes,padding on the deep moss,made no sound. There was no wind,there were no birds, there was no sound of water. There was no sound of breathing from the strange beasts.
When they had walked for several miles,they came to a wall of rock,and in it a low archway leading into another cavern. It was not,however,so bad as the last entrance and Jill could go through it without bending her head. It brought them into a smaller cave,long and narrow,about the shape and size of a cathedral. And here,filling almost the whole le