“Have you your sword?” asked the Doctor.
“Yes,” said Caspian.
“Then put this mantle over all to hide the sword and the wallet. That’s right. And now we must go to the Great Tower and talk.”
When they had reached the top of the tower （it was a cloudy night, not at all like the night when they had en the jun of Tarva and Alambil） Doctor elius said,
“Dear Prince, you must leave this castle at ond go to ek your fortune in the wide world. Your life is in danger here.”
“Why?” asked Caspian.
“Becau you are the true King of Narnia：Caspiaenth, the true son and heir of Caspian the Ninth. Long life to your Majesty”—and suddenly, to Caspian’s great surpri, the little man dropped down on one knee and kisd his hand.
“What does it all mean? I don’t uand,” said Caspian.
“I wonder you have never asked me before,” said the Doctor, “why, being the son of King Caspian, you are not King Caspian yourlf. Everyone except your Majesty knows that Miraz is a usurper. When he first began to rule he did not eveend to be the King：he called himlf Lord Protector. But then your royal mother died, the good Queen and the only Telmarine who was ever kind to me. And then, one by one, all the great lords, who had known your father, died or disappeared. Not by act, either. Miraz weeded them out. Belisar and Uvilas were shot with arrows on a hunting party：by ce, it retended. All the great hou of the Passarids he nt to fight giants on the northern froill one by ohey fell. Arlian and Erimon and a dozen more he executed for treason on a fal charge. The two brothers of Beaversdam he shut up as madmen. And finally he persuaded the ven noble lords, who alone among all the Telmarines did not fear the a, to sail away and look for new lands beyond the Eastern O, and, as he intehey never came back. And when there was no o who could speak a word for you, then his flatterers （as he had instructed them） begged him to bee King. And of cour he did.”
“Do you mean he now wants to kill me too?” said Caspian.
“That is almost certain,” said Doctor elius.
“But why now?” said Caspian. “I mean, why didn’t he do it long ago if he wao? And what harm have I done him?”