第1421章 The Silver Chair(274)

Most of the gang were there.Adela Pennyfather and Cholmondely Major， Edith Winterblott， ’Spotty‘ Sorrier， big Bannister， and the two loathsome Garrett twins. But suddenly they stopped. Their faces changed， and all the meanness， conceit， cruelty， and sneakishness almost disappeared in one single expression of terror. For they saw the wall fallen down， and a lion as large as a young elephant lying in the gap， and three figures in glittering clothes with weapons in their hands rushing down upon them. For， with the strength of Aslan in them， Jill plied her crop on the girls and Caspian and Eustace plied the flats of their swords on the boys so well that in two minutes all the bullies were running like mad， crying out， “Murder！ Fascists！ Lions！ It isn’t fair.” And then the Head （who was， by the way， a woman） came running out to see what was happening. And when she saw the lion and the broken wall and Caspian and Jill and Eustace （whom she quite failed to recognize） she had hysterics and went back to the house and began ringing up the police with stories about a lion escaped from a circus， and escaped convicts who broke down walls and carried drawn swords. In the midst of all this fuss Jill andustace slipped quietly indoors and changed out of their right clothes into ordinary things， and Caspian went back to his own world. And the wall， at Aslan‘s word， was made hole again. When the police arrived and found no lion， no roken wall， and no convicts， and the Head behaving like lunatic， there was an inquiry into the whole thing. And the inquiry all sorts of things about Experiment House ame out， and about ten people got expelled. After that， he Head’s friends saw that the Head was no use as a Head， o they got her made an Inspector to interfere with other eads. And when they found she wasn‘t much good even at hat， they got her into Parliament where she lived happilyver after.