After lunch, which they had oerrace （it was cold birds and cold game pie and wine and bread and chee）, King Lune ruffled up his brow and heaved a sigh and said, “Heigh-ho！ We have still that sorry creature Rabadash on our hands, my friends, and must needs resolve what to do with him.”
Lucy was sitting on the King’s right and Aravis on his left. King Edmund sat at one end of the table and the Lord Darrin faced him at the other. Dar and Peridan and Cor and were on the same side as the King.
“Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head,” said Peridan. “Su assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins.”
“It is very true,” said Edmund. “But even a traitor may mend. I have knowhat did.” And he looked very thoughtful.
“To kill this Rabadash would go o raising war with the Tisroc,” said Darrin.
“A fig for the Tisroc,” said King Lune. “His strength is in numbers and numbers will never cross the dert. But I have no stomach for killing men （even traitors） in cold blood. To have cut his throat itle would have ead my heart mightily, but this is a different thing.”
“By my l,” said Lucy, “your Majesty shall give him arial. Let him go free on strait promi of fair dealing iure. It may be that he will keep his word.”
“Maybe Apes will grow ho, Sister,” said Edmund. “But, by the Lion, if he breaks it again, may it be in such time and place that any of us could s off his head in battle.”
“It shall be tried,” said the King, and then to one of the attendants, “Send for the prisoner, friend.”
Rabadash was brought before them in s. To look at him anyone would have suppod that he had pasd the night in a noisome dungeon without food or water; but iy he had been shut up in quite a fortable room and provided with an excellent supper. But as he was sulking far too furiously to touch the supper and had spent the whole night stamping and r and cursing, he naturally did not now look his best. but iy he had been shut up in quite a fortable room and provided with an excellent supper. But as he was sulking far too furiously to touch the supper and had spent the whole night stamping and r and cursing, he naturally did not now look his best.