Whatever that fight may have been like, it did not last long.The noi of it died away.Then Jill saw the Tarkaan ing back to the stable; eleven men followed him, dragging eleven bound Dwarfs.（Whether the others had all been killed, or whether some of them had got away, was never known.）
“Throw them into the shrine of Tash,”said Rishda Tarkaan.
And when the eleven Dwarfs, oer the other, had been flung or kicked into that dark doorway and the door had been shut again, he bowed low to the stable and said：
“The also are for thy burnt , Lord Tash.”
And all the enes bahe flats of their swords on their shields and shouted,“Tash！Tash！The great god Tash！Inexorable Tash！”（There was no nonn about“Tashlan”now.）
The little party by the white rock watched the doings and whispered to one ahey had found a trickle of water ing down the rod all had drunk eagerly—Jill and Poggin and the King in their hands, while the four-footed ones lapped from the little pool which it had made at the foot of the stone.Such was their thirst that it emed the most delicious drink they had ever had in their lives, and while they were drinking they were perfectly happy and could not think of anything el.
“I feel in my bones,”said Poggin,“that we shall all, one by one, pass through that dark door before m.I think of a hundred deaths I would rather have died.”
“It is indeed a grim door,”said Tirian.“It is more like a mouth.”
“Oh, ’t we do anything to stop it?”said Jill in a shaken voice.
“Nay, fair friend,”said Jewel, nosing her gently.“It may be for us the door to Aslan’s try and we shall sup at his table tonight.”
Rishda Tarkaan turned his ba the stable and walked slowly to a pla front of the white rock.
“Hearken,”he said.“If the Boar and the Dogs and the Uni will e over to me and put themlves in my mercy, their lives shall be spared.The Boar shall go to a cage iisroc’s garden, the Dogs to the Tisroc’s kennels, and the Uni, when I have sawn his horn off, shall draw a cart.But the Eagle, the children, and he who was the King shall be offered to Tash this night.”