dismayed goblin lurking here and there, they found no one--while he
requested Lootie to take him to the princess's room. She was as
submissive and obedient as if he had been the king. He found the
bed-clothes tossed about, and most of them on the floor, while the
princess's garments were scattered all over the room, which was in the
greatest confusion. It was only too evident that the goblins had been
there, and Curdie had no longer any doubt that she had been carried
off
at the very first of the inroad. With a pang of despair he saw how
wrong
they had been in not securing the king and queen and prince; but he
determined to find and rescue the princess as she had found and
rescued
him, or meet the worst fate to which the goblins could doom him.
CHAPTER XXVIII
CURDIE'S GUIDE
Madhuri Noah
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