tcal station at Bolvangar and floo troubled.

        In tmospurba folloo stay exan aeronaut, but Serafina ossed o t soon came rolling in from t Lord AsriePs experiment orn in the sky.

        o trol    once more,    t rue one, lorek Byrnison, nor of er t.

        So so searged air on otle, s for several urbulent range lights and shadows.

        Serafina Pekkala kling tingle of t on    it came from another world.

        After some time ;Look! A c..."

        Serafina Pekkala looked tern, cirg and g in ty ligoed up in alarm, but Serafina Pekkala signaled friendshem.

        Serafina Pekkala said, "    are you from?"

        "taymyr," old ;My cured. Our panions !"

        "ured your c;

        "t;

        "as your    allied ters?"

        "Yes, until    er t at Bolvangar t my    priso    I do? So me and I t find ;

        "Quiet," said Kaisa, t;Listen do;

        tening    t of a gas engine, muffled by the fog.

        "t navigate a s; Kaisa said. " are t;

        "Its a smaller e," said Serafina Pekkala, and as s dire: a loal, s, like some immense sea creature calling from t roared for several seds and topped abruptly.

        "t; said Serafina Pekkala.

        ter and cast about again for t, for to sity, and tced up out of sig in time as a launcer ant to rise.

        tern daemon keeping close like a co its motceersman adjust tly as t mounted on t all it lit up .

        Serafina Pekkala said to t daemon: "Did you say till some c;

        "I tcoo," old ; are you going to do? ill you look for my c;

        "Yes. But stay ;

        Serafina Pekkala fleo of siged on ter just beeersman. uro look.

        "You taken your time, ent you?" ;Get up a side."

        Sook off again at o ill c s , s lig about in til s its ed bad ions to teersman, o a crao t    above ter line.

        teersman called, and a sailor to make it fast to the launch.

        Serafina Pekkala fleo treated to ts. Sc trolling t to do.

        Belo as it reacly up on ting malevolence. Serafina cauger.

        A dark-clot oo greet ing someone else as well.

        "Lord Boreal—" he began.

        But Mrs. Coulter interrupted: "arted torture?"

        "Yes, Mrs. Coulter," ;but—"

        "I ordered to ," s;aken to disobeying me? Per;

        S: proud, passionate, and, to tch, so young.

        "c; she demanded.

        t;All gone, maam. Red to t;

        "But a c; said Mrs. Coulter. ";

        Serafina s est state of t Mrs. Coulter oo impatient, and after a curslance above and along t cast a yellohe man followed.

        Serafina Pekkala looked around to . Silator on tral superstructure of t port on t o t and td beginning to freeze into stiffness. No one could see Serafina o see any more, so leave her hiding place.

        t oo bad. it. Silator and slipped along til s    ion and impossible to see to the shadows again.

        tant, because it ely risky, and it    it seemed t y al magic, a kind of fiercely y t could make t invisible but simply unnoticed.

        degree of iy, sary traveler,    being seen.

        So noion to bear on tter of altering to deflect attention pletely. It took some minutes before s. Sested it by stepping out of o tools. epped aside to avoid    looking at her once.

        S to tly lit saloon and ope, finding ty. S ter door ajar so t s if so, and sa t opened on to a fligairs leading doo te-painted pipeed s, h sides.

        Sly along, listening, until s sounded as if some kind of cil was in session.

        She door and walked in.

        A dozen or so people ed around a large table. One or t, gazed at ly, and fot    once. Sood quietly g o be clerics of one sort or anot from Mrs. Coulter, er    of terior.

        Serafina Pekkala looked around carefully and saed to one side at a table laden    at first t ary, until s ently gazing at a golden instrument like a large copping every minute or so to note    dooo and turning back to trument.

        Serafina looked back to t table, because sch.

        "S t; said one of t;S sc ;

        "I am er kno; said t;Is told us before, I ;

        "You ," said Mrs. Coulter icily. "You fet I am a    so subtle as a prince of t is trut I s t;

        t    apologetically:

        "It seems t t s ter. All tances of o begin ians kno oo—terms of    men to Bolvangar. And tonis of deposing tell us more, per;

        ter, er.

        "You may be a ter left, apart from t; ;All troyed, by order of terium. I learn from trument t ter of Jordan College, and t so read it by    s    t o disbelieve ter, I o use trument    to me. It takes decades of diligent study to reac of uanding. So read it , and noe mastery. S;

        "; said the Cardinal.

        "In t; said Fra Pavel. "It is already late."

        "tc; said anot dasmon gna a pencil. "Its all in place but for tcestimony! I say ure ;

        " is t; demanded Mrs. Coulter, ; from me?"

        able, and none of the face.

        Only t flinced a foot and scratched her head.

        "tced at sometraordinary," t;I dare not believe    means. If its true, it places on us t terrible responsibility men and er—;

        Mrs. Coulter    e h fury.

        &quate me?" s. "And    youve learned from tc I am keeping sometortured like tap your fingers and you could orn apart. But if you seard one, because I knoever. And I demand t you tell me o kno;

        "Please," said anot;Please, Mrs. Coulter, tc spoke;    it."

        "And suppose tc reveal it?" Mrs. Coulter said. " t;

        Fra Pavel said, "No, because t is tion I am noo put to ter.

        e sc;

        "And    take?"

        ;A siderable time. It is an immensely plex question."

        "But tcell us at once," said Mrs. Coulter.

        And so . As if in aoo. Only ted. Serafina Pekkala stood back, fiercely eetanding on end.

        Mrs. Coulter swung o her shoulder.

        "So let us go and ask ; she said.

        Surned and s out into teo folloo stand quickly aside, urmoil. t to go he Cardinal.

        Serafina took a feo pose ation o make o a smaller room, bare and er: a cigo a steel ced and broken.

        Mrs. Coulter stood over ook up a position by t s stay unseen for long; too hard.

        "tell us about tc; said Mrs. Coulter.

        "No!"

        "You ;

        "I ;

        "Oo e. e    your suffering endlessly. tell us about t; Mrs. Coulter said, and reaco break one of tapped easily.

        td for a clear sed Serafina Pekkala became visible to everyone, and one or t    trolled urned back to torture.

        Mrs. Coulter ;If you dont ans do you kno tell me."

        "All rig;

        "Ans;

        time a flood of sobbing broke from tch.

        Serafina Pekkala could hese words, in a shriek:

        "No, no! Ill tell you! I beg you, no more! to e ... tc ;

        "e kno;

        "rue iny!"

        " is tell me!" said Mrs. Coulter.

        "No... no..."

        "And    ;

        "test.... If so pick out one spray of cloud-pine from many ot    our suls    trollesund, ;

        .

        Mrs. Coulter gave a little exclamation of impatience, and there came a loud slap, and a groan.

        "But ; Mrs. Coulter    on, and ;And    ;

        Serafina Pekkala moved closer, even among tigc    t end tc train of rembled as sook t.

        tc;Sed and feared o find    ;

        But before serruption.

        tern, mad error, and it beat its    crasled up and darted to t of tortured cself against c;Yambe-Akka!

        e to me, e to me!"

        No o Serafina Pekkala uood. Yambe-Akka o a c to die.

        And Serafina epped fors of joy. ted up ear-stained face, and Serafio kiss it and slid ly into tc. tern daemon looked up h dim eyes and vanished.

        And now Serafina Pekkala would o fig.

        till s Mrs. Coulter recovered s almost at once.

        "Seize    let ; s Serafina    tring. So the floor.

        Out, along to tairs, turn, nock, loose, and anots gor.

        Up tairs and out onto t loose! Get ;

        t ood undecided, o dodge past and seize    beilator.

        "S ; came a cry in Mrs. Coulters voice from be os struck metal and    up like one oose s of to her side.

        "o?" he said.

        "A; s;I    to get teny nose."

        In trut knoo do . But tain: t s mark in Mrs. Coulters t.

        turned sout troubling otion began to form more clearly in Serafinas mind.    s t urerious activities.

        t tural ones. Sray animal, catc berries; and serails, or deciperpret t ture, and told ural truths.

        For kno Lord Asriel, so go elserollesund, tained act o see o endrils of mist drifted glike on ter, and c guided in a large vessel ration. t ancside the harbor. She had never seen so many.

        As t day faded, sapped on to his lips.

        "Serafina Pekkala, greetings," ;e in quickly, and    you ter not stay long."    tains out of a    froreet. "Youll have some wine?

        Sokay and told    she ship.

        "Do you tood ; he asked.

        "Not fully, I t tant. As for t woman, Im afraid of her, Dr.

        Lanselius. I s still Im afraid of ;

        "Yes," ;So am I."

        And Serafina listened as old     tos o emerge clearly.
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