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"What can I do for you to-day, Richard Lord Arden?" "He's not Lord Arden," said Edred. "I used to be. But even I'm not Lord Arden now. My father is." "Indeed?" said the Mouldierwarp with an air of polite interest. "You interest me greatly. But my question remains unanswered."
You're just like the Greek oracles. Won't you tell us something plain and straightforward?" "I will," said the Mouldierwarp, rather shortly. "Great Arden's Lord no treasure shall regain Till Arden's Lord is lost and found again." "And father was lost and found again," said Edred, "so that's all right." "Set forth to seek it with courageous face. And seek it in the most unlikely place."
So-and-so?" when you have knocked at the door of Mr. So-and-so's house and some one has opened the door. Immediately everything became dark, but before the children had time to wish that it was light again a disc of light appeared on the curtain of darkness, and there was the Mouldierwarp, just as Dickie had seen him once before. He bowed in a courtly manner, and said
The Mouldierwarp had, as well as a gentle voice, a finer nose than the Mouldiwarp, his fur was more even and his claws sharper. "Eh, you be a gentleman, you be," said the Mouldiwarp, "so's 'e so there's two of ye sure enough." It was very odd to see and hear these white moles talking like real people and looking like figures on a magic-lantern screen.
"Back thou goes then," said the Mouldy; "that part's easy." "And for the second half of thy wish no magic is needed but the magic of steadfast heart and the patient purpose, and these thou hast without any helping or giving of ours," said the courtly Mouldierwarp.
Suppose we work the magic and just ask to see him?" "I don't want to go away from here," said Edred firmly. "You needn't. I'll lay out the moon-seeds and things on the floor here you'll see." So Dickie made the crossed triangles of moon-seeds and he and his cousins stood in it and Dickie said, "Please can we see the Mouldierwarp?" just as you say, "Please can I see Mr.
"There's purty manners," the Mouldiwarp said. "The pleasure is ours," said the Mouldierwarp instantly. Dickie could not help seeing that both these old creatures were extremely pleased with him. "When shall I see the other Mouldiwarp?" he asked, to keep up the conversation "the one on our shield of arms?"
"You needn't make such a fuss about it," said Elfrida, "nobody's going to get bricked up in vaults." And Dickie added, "You're quite right, old chap. I didn't think about that." "We must do something," Elfrida said impatiently. "How would it be," Dickie spoke slowly, "if I tried to see the Mouldierwarp? He is stronger than the Mouldiwarp. He might advise us.
"Thou'rt a fair sprig of de old tree, Muster Dickie, so 'e be," in the thick speech of the peasant people round about Talbot house where Dickie had once been a little burglar. "He is indeed a worthy scion of the great house we serve," said the other Mouldiwarp with precise and gentle utterance. "As Mouldierwarp to the Ardens I can but own that I am proud of him."
And then they saw that in the middle of the hall was a throne of silver, spread with a fringed cloth of checkered silver and green, and on it, with the Mouldiwarp standing on one side and the Mouldierwarp on the other, the Mouldiestwarp was seated in state and splendor. He was much larger than either of the other moles, and his fur was as silvery as the feathers of a swan.
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