"Do you think that this Queen has allowed our father to continue his journey?"
"No, I do not think so. She does not even allow her neighbours, or her allies like ourselves, to enter her kingdom."
"Nevertheless, from what you say, our father appears to have entered it?"
"Yes, against all my advice. But he would be made prisoner at once."
"You are sure of that?"
"It cannot have happened otherwise, for he Has not returned to my dominions."
"There would be no necessity for his returning, if he could succeed in crossing the mountains?"
"He could not cross them. They are the boundary of the earth; it ends there."
Instead of combating this error, de Morin said to the King—
"Then, if our father still lives, we shall find him amongst the
Walindis?"