Are you sure you tied Wildfire good an' tight ?" "Yes, I'm sure.

I'll go now.

I hope you'll be better to-morrow." Lucy hesitated, with her hand on the King's bridle.

She did not like to leave this young man lying there helpless on the desert.

But what else could she do?
What a strange adventure had befallen her! At the following thought that it was not yet concluded she felt a little stir of excitement at her pulses.