About six days after they had landed on Dragon Island， dmund happened to wake up very early one morning. It as just getting grey so that you could see the tree.trunks they were between you and the bay but not in the other irection. As he woke he thought he heard something oving， so he raised himself on one elbow and looked bout him： and presently he thought he saw a dark figure oving on the seaward side of the wood. The idea that at nce occurred to his mind was， “Are we so sure there are o natives on this island after all？” Then he thought it was aspian.it was about the right size.but he knew that aspian had been sleeping next to him and could see that e hadn’t moved. Edmund made sure that his sword was in s place and then rose to investigate.
He came down softly to the edge of the wood and the ark figure was still there. He saw now that it was too mall for Caspian and too big for Lucy. It did not run away. dmund drew his sword and was about to challenge the ranger when the stranger said in a low voice， “Is that you， dmund？”
“Yes. Who are you？” said he.
“Don‘t you know me？” said the other. “It’s me.Eustace.” “By jove，” said Edmund， “so it is. My dear chap.” “Hush，” said Eustace， and lurched as if he were going to ll.