CHAPTER SIX A GOOD NIGHT’S WORK（第4/4页）

When you have been whispering for hours the mere sound of anyone talking out loud has a wonderfully stirring effect. The whole party began talking and laughing：even Puzzle lifted up his head and gave a grand Haw-hee-haw-hee-hee; a thing the Ape hadn’t allowed him to do for days. Then they set off in the direction of the drumming. It grew steadily louder and soon they could see torchlight as well. They came out on one of those rough roads (we should hardly call them roads at all in England) which ran through Lantern Waste. And there，marching sturdily along，were about thirty Dwarfs，all with their little spades and mattocks over their shoulders. Two armed Calormenes led the column and two more brought up the rear．

“Stay!”thundered Tirian as he stepped out on the road.“Stay， soldiers. Whither do you lead these Narnian Dwarfs and by whose orders ？”