“He has ged his mind about you becau of something that happened only two ho. The Queen has had a son.”
“I don’t e what that’s got to do with it,” said Caspian.
“Don’t e！” exclaimed the Doctor. “Have all my lessons in History and Politics taught you no more than that? Listen. As long as he had no children of his own, he was willing enough that you should be King after he died. He may not have cared much about you, but he would rather you should have the throhan a stranger. Now that he has a son of his own he will want his own son to be the King. You are in the way. He’ll clear you out of the way.”
“Is he really as bad as that?” said Caspian. “Would he really murder me?”
“He murdered your Father,” said Doctor elius.
Caspia very queer and said nothing.
“I tell you the whole story,” said the Doctor. “But not now. There is no time. You must fly at once.”
“You’ll e with me?” said Caspian.
“I dare not,” said the Doctor. “It would make your danger greater. Two are more easily tracked than one. Dear Prince, dear King Caspian, you must be very brave. You must go alone and at ory to get across the southern border to the court of King Nain of Arland. He will be good to you.”
“Shall I never e you again?” said Caspian in a quavering voice.
“I hope so, dear King,” said the Doctor. “What friend have I in the wide world except your Majesty? And I have a little magic. But in the meantime, speed is everything. Here are two gifts before you go. This is a little pur of gold—alas, all the treasure in this castle should be your own by rights. And here is something far better.”
He put in Caspian’s hands something which he could hardly e but which he knew by the feel to be a horn.
“That,” said Doctor elius, “is the greatest and most sacred treasure of Narnia. Many terrors I endured, many spells did I utter, to find it, when I was still young. It is the magic horn of Queen Susan herlf which she left behind her when she vanished from Narnia at the end of the Golde is said that whoever blows it shall have strange help—no one say how stra may have the power to call Queen Lud King Edmund and Queen Susan and High Kier back from the past, and they will t all thts. It may be that it will call up Asian himlf. Take it, King Caspian, but do not u it except at yreatest need. And now, haste, haste, haste. The little door at the very bottom of the Tower, the door into the garden, is unlocked. There we must part.”