Adventure Series - 05 - The Mountain of Adventure by Enid Blyton

Author:Enid Blyton
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Children's Fiction
ISBN: 9780330448376
Publisher: Macmillan Children's
Published: 2007-08-15T07:00:00+00:00

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Chapter 17

PHILIP AGAIN

”IT’S queer there’s nobody about at all,” said Jack, staring round at the silent hall. “Not a soul to be seen! I wonder where everyone is. All those wheels and wires and things whirring away busily by themselves, with nobody to see to them - and now this great empty place, with its throne and gorgeous hangings!”

”Jack!” said Dinah, pulling at his sleeve. “Can’t we find Philip now and rescue him? We’ve only got to go back through those long passages and down the rope-ladder! Snowy will take us to Philip, and we can take him safely to the entrance of the mountain.”

”Yes. That’s a good idea,” said Jack. He fondled the little white kid by his side. “Where’s Philip?” he whispered, and gave Snowy a push. “You show us, Snowy.”

Snowy butted Jack gently. He didn’t seem to know what the boy meant. Jack gave it up after a bit. “We’ll wait and see if Snowy goes off by himself,” he said. “If he does, we’ll follow him.”

So they waited. Snowy soon became restive and set off down the big hall past the great throne. The children followed cautiously, keeping by the walls, as far in the shadows as possible. Snowy disappeared through some deep red curtains. The children peeped through them. On the other side was what looked like a small library. Books lined the walls. The children looked at the titles curiously. They hardly understood what any of them meant. Most of them were in foreign languages, and all of them looked very learned and difficult.

”Scientific books,” said Jack. “Come on. Snowy has gone through that opening.”

They followed him. He saw that they were coming and waited for them. They hoped he was taking them to Philip!

He was! He led them upwards through a curiously rounded tunnel-like passage, lit at intervals by the same kind of dim lamps they had seen in the first passages. It was weird going along in the half-dark, not able to see very far in front or behind. Snowy trotted in front like a little white ghost.

They passed big openings filled with what looked like stores of some kind. Boxes, chests, packages of all kinds were there, flung in higgledy-piggledy.

Jack paused to examine some. They had foreign labels on most of them. One had been opened, showing tins of food.

”Look,” said Jack, “it’s what I said. They have their food brought here - by the helicopter, I expect. I wonder what in the world they’re up to.”

They came to some steps hewn out of the rock itself. These led upwards rather steeply in a spiral. Snowy bounded up lightly, but the others panted as they went up and up, twisting and turning with the spiral of the stairway.

They came to a door set fast in the side of the stone stairway. It was a stout wooden door, with great bolts on the outside. Snowy stopped beside this door and bleated loudly.

Then the children’s hearts jumped and they heard a familiar voice.

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