“I see it all now，” said Eustace （he had the bad habit of terrupting stories）. “The Cat was to go in first and the entry had orders to do him no harm. Then the Cat was o come out and say he‘d seen their beastly Tashlan and retend to be frightened so as to scare the other Animals. ut what Shift never guessed was that the real Tash would urn up； so Ginger came out really frightened. And after hat， Shift would send in anyone he wanted to get rid of and he sentry would kill them. And.”
“Friend，” said Tirian softly， “you hinder the lady in her le.”
“Well，” said Lucy， “the sentry was surprised. That gave the ther man just time to get on guard. They had a fight. He illed the sentry and flung him outside the door. Then he ame walking slowly forward to where we were. He could ee us， and everything else. We tried to talk to him but he as rather like a man in a trance. He kept on saying， Tash， ash， where is Tash？ I go to Tash. So we gave it up and he ent away somewhere.over there. I liked him. And after hat... ugh！” Lucy made a face.
“After that，” said Edmund， “someone flung a monkey hrough the door. And Tash was there again. My sister is so nder.hearted she doesn’t like to tell you that Tash made ne peck and the Monkey was gone！”