The Secret Series--Complete Collection by Enid Blyton

Author:Enid Blyton
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9788027303397
Publisher: e-artnow
Published: 2019-07-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter XII - The Way Into The Secret Mountain

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“Quick, Ranni, tell us everything!” said Jack.

“We saw some of the Folk of the Secret Mountain!” said Ranni. “They certainly do look queer. It is just as Mafumu’s uncle said - they have flaming red hair and beards and their skins are a funny yellow. I couldn’t see if their eyes were green.

They were dressed in flowing robes of all colours, and they wore turbans that showed their red hair.”

“Golly!” said Mike, his eyes wide with excitement. “Go on - what happened?”

“The queerest thing happened,” said Ranni. “I hardly know if I believe it or not.

Well - let me tell you. As we lay there, watching these people talking together in their funny harsh voices, we noticed that they were near a very curious kind of rock.”

“What sort of rock?” asked Pilescu.

“It was an enormous rock,” said Ranni. “It was strange because it was much smaller at the bottom than at the top, so that it looked almost as if it must fall over.

Well, as we watched, one of the Mountain Folk went up to the rock and pushed hard against it.”

“Why, he couldn’t surely move an enormous rock!” cried Mike.

“That’s what I thought,” said Ranni. “But that rock must be one of these curious balancing rocks that can be pivoted, or swung-round, at a touch, no matter how big they are. There are just a few known in the world, and this is another.”

“What happened when the rock swung round?” asked Pilescu.

“It not only swung round, it slid to one side,” said Ranni. “Just like the rock in the story of Ali Baba that you told me! And behind it was a great door in the mountain-side studded with shining knobs that glittered in the sun!”

Everyone stared at Ranni in silence, too excited to speak. So that was the way into the mountain! They had stumbled on it quite by accident.

“Go on,” whispered Peggy at last.

“I couldn’t see how the great doorway was opened,” said Ranni. “It seemed to slide to one side, very quietly - but whether it was opened from the outside or the inside I really don’t know. Then the rock rolled back into place again, and swung back into position with that terrific roaring, groaning sound you heard.”

“And did the people go into the mountain?” asked Mike.

“They did,” answered Ranni, “We saw no more of them.”

Everyone sat silent for a while, thinking of the queer entrance to the Secret

Mountain. So that was what Mafumu’s uncle had meant when he said that to get into the mountain one had to walk through rock!

“Well - what are we going to do?” said Jack. “We know the way in - but I wonder how that great studded door is opened! Oh, Ranni - can we try to get in tonight?”

“We’d better,” said Ranni. “I will try by myself and see what happens. You can all find good hiding-places nearby and watch. I’ll take my gun, you may be sure!”

The children could hardly wait for the sudden nightfall to come.

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