"I don't see how I could manage that. They wouldn't let a miner boy
like
me have a word with her alone; and I couldn't tell her before that nurse
of hers. She'd be asking ever so many questions, and I don't know how
many of them the little princess would like me to answer. She told me
that Lootie didn't know anything about her coming to get me out of
the
mountain. I am certain she would have prevented her somehow if she
had
known it. But I may have a chance before long, and meantime I must
try
to do something for her. I think, father, I have got on the track at
last."
"Have you, indeed, my boy?" said Peter. "I am sure you deserve some
success; you have worked very hard for it. What have you found out?"
"It's difficult you know, father, inside the mountain, especially in the
dark, and not knowing what turns you have taken, to tell the lie of
things outside."
"Impossible, my boy, without a chart, or at least a compass," returned
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