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Instantly a whole chorus of other voices replied,“Hear him. Hear him.Now ‘s our chance’,he said.Well done,Chief. You never said a truer word.”
“What I say,”continued the first voice,“is,get down to the shore between them and their boat,and let every mother’s son look to his weapons.Catch’em when they try to put to sea.”
“Eh,that’s the way,”shouted all the other voices.“You never made a better plan,Chief.Keep it up,Chief.You couldn’t have a better plan than that.”
“Lively,then,mates,lively,”said the first voice.“Off we go.
“Right again,Chief,”said the others.“Couldn’t have a better
order.Just what we were going to say ourselves.Off we go.”
Immediately the thumping began again—very loud at first but soon fainter and fainter,till it died out in the direction of the sea.
Lucy knew there was no time to sit puzzling as to what these invisible creatures might be.As soon as the thumping noise had died away she got up and ran along the path after the others as quickly as her legs would carry her.They must at all costs be warned.
While this had been happening the others had reached the house.It was a low building-only two stories high made of a beautiful mellow stone,many-windowed,and partially covered with ivy.Everything was so still that Eustace said,“I think it’s empty,”but Caspian silently pointed to the column of smoke which rose from one chimney.