should return to fetch the remains of their furniture. It was not that
he was in the least afraid of them, but, as it was of the utmost
importance that he should thoroughly discover what the plans they
were
cherishing were, he must not occasion the slightest suspicion that they
were watched by a miner.
He hurried on, feeling his way along the walls of rock. Had he not been
very courageous, he must have been very anxious, for he could not but
know that if he lost his way it would be the most difficult thing in the
world to find it again. Morning would bring no light into these
regions;
and toward him least of all, who was known as a special rhymster and
persecutor, could goblins be expected to exercise courtesy? Well might
he wish that he had brought his lamp and tinder-box with him, of
which
he had not thought when he crept so eagerly after the goblins! He
wished
it all the more when, after a while, he found his way blocked up, and
could get no farther. It was of no use to turn back, for he had not the
least idea where he had begun to go wrong. Mechanically, however, he
kept feeling about the walls that hemmed him in. His hand came upon
a
place where a tiny stream of water was running down the face of the
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