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Updated: June 26, 2025
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.
The three children hugged each other, and then turned to the Mouldiwarp. "How can we get home?" "The old way," he said; and from the sky above a swan carriage suddenly swooped. "In with you," said the Mouldiwarp; "swan carriages can take you from one time to another just as well as one place to another.
Elfrida fired away, and the next moment it was plain that Elfrida's poetry was more potent than Edred's; also that a little bad grammar is a trifle to a mighty Mouldiwarp. For the walls of Edred's room receded further and further, till the children found themselves in a great white hall with avenues of tall pillars stretching in every direction as far as you could see.
"There are three white Mouldiwarps friends to thy house," she told him "the Mouldiwarp who is the badge, and the Mouldiwarp who is the crest, and the Great Mouldiwarp who sits on the green and white checkered field of the Ardens' shield of arms. It was the first two who talked of thee." "And how can I find my cousins and help them to find their father?"
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.
Dickie went towards the voice, and sure enough, as the voice said, there was a hole in the ground, just big enough, it seemed, for him to crawl down on hands and knees. "I'll go afore," said the Mouldiwarp, "you come arter. Dere's naught to be afeared on, Lord Arden." "Am I really Lord Arden?" said Dickie, pausing.
He comed fra oor toon, and he tellt me hissen the neet afore: 'Jock, 'e said, 'tha'll write to me wife, woan't tha? And ah said, 'Doan't be a fule, Ben, tha'll be all right. 'Noa, Jock, he tellt me, 'ah knaw'd afore ah left heeam ah should be killt. Ah saw a mouldiwarp dead afore oor door; me wife fair dithered when she saw't." The chaplain and myself looked puzzled.
Dickie and the nurse sat most of the night talking by the replenished fire, for the tale seemed endless. Dickie learned that the Edred and Elfrida who belonged to his own times had a father who was supposed to be dead. "I am forbidden to tell them," said the nurse, "but thou canst help them, and shalt." "I should like that," said Dickie "but can't I see the white Mouldiwarp?"
"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.
There also you may read of the marvels of the white clock, and the cliff that none could climb, and the children who were white cats, and the Mouldiwarp who became as big as a polar bear, with other wonders. And when all this was over, Elfrida and Edred wanted Dickie to come back with them to their own time. But he would not.
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