Those were certainly the kind of thoughts a King should have; and the moment Tommy let the bright sunshine of hope enter his mind and travel along with him for wayfellow, just that very moment he came to a turn in the path, and not a hundred feet beyond saw the bright sunshine of day streaming into a broad space at what appeared to be the end of the passage.
The Nineteenth Chapter.
Of what was found at the End of the Passage. Also of the Guard at the Gate. And of the Happy Conclusion to an Exciting Experience.
RYSTAL lights lit the passage, and seemed to be glowing and glimmering through a great globe set in the black earth above their heads. At first, no one could understand the meaning of this, but presently the doubt was dispelled by the little old dame who led the way up a flight of stairs cut in the solid rock, and out through an opening into a little park, scarcely a stone’s throw from the Castle gates.
An expression of surprise now escaped from the lips of everyone, for upon looking back, it was found that the passage had led right in under a great crystal bowl, full to {144} the brim of tumbling, tossing, sunkissed water. Yes, the secret passage had begun at one fountain and ended at another; but while the basin of the first was all marble, that of the second was all of glass, and although the entrance had been through the mouth of a great green fish, the exit led through the mouth of a great green frog.