all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond. Suddenly without
any warning he trotted splash into water! Ugh! it was icy cold. That
pulled him up sharp and short. He did not know whether it was just a
pool in the path, or the edge of an underground stream that crossed the
passage, or the brink of a deep dark subterranean lake. The sword was
hardly shining at all. He stopped, and he could hear, when he listened