"I know," said Jewel. "Or as if you drank water and it were dry water. You are in theright, Sire. This is the end of all things. Let us go and give ourselves up."
"There is no need for both of us to go."
"If ever we loved one another, let me go with you now," said the Unicorn. "If you aredead and if Aslan is not Aslan, what life is left for me?"
They turned and walked back together, shedding bitter tears.
As soon as they came to the place where the work was going on the Calormenes raised acry and came towards them with their weapons in hand. But the King held out his sword withthe hilt towards them and said:
"I who was King of Narnia and am now a dishonoured knight give myself up to the justiceof Aslan. Bring me before him."
"And I give myself up too," said Jewel.
Then the dark men came round them in a thick crowd, smelling of garlic and onions, theirwhite eyes flashing dreadfully in their brown faces. They put a rope halter round Jewel'sneck. They took the King's sword away and tied his hands behind his back. One of theCalormenes, who had a helmet instead of a turban and seemed to be in command, snatched thegold circlet off Tirian's head and hastily put it away somewhere among his clothes. They ledthe two prisoners uphill to a place where there was a big clearing. And this was what theprisoners saw. At the centre of the clearing, which was also the highest point of the hill,there was a little hut like a stable, with a thatched roof. Its door was shut. On the grassin front of the door there sat an Ape. Tirian and Jewel, who had been expecting to see Aslanand had heard nothing about an Ape yet, were very bewildered when they saw it. The Ape wasof course Shift himself, but he looked ten times uglier than when he lived by Caldron Pool,for he was now dress- ed up. He was wearing a scarlet jacket which did not fit him verywell, having been made for a dwarf. He had Jewelled slippers on his hind paws which wouldnot stay on properly because, as you know, the hind paws of an Ape are really like hands. Hewore what seemed to be a paper crown on his head. There was a great pile of nuts beside himand he kept cracking nuts with his jaws and spitting out the shells. And he also kept onpulling up the scarlet jacket to scratch himself. A great number of Talking Beasts stoodfacing him, and nearly every face in that crowd looked miserably worried and bewildered.When they saw who the prisoners were they all groaned and whimpered.
"O Lord Shift, mouthpiece of Aslan," said the chief Calormene. "We bring you prisoners.By our skill and courage and by the permission of the great god Tash we have taken alivethese two desperate murderers."
"Give me that man's sword," said the Ape. So they took the King's sword and handed it,with the sword-belt and all, to the monkey. And he hung it round his own neck: and it madehim look sillier than ever.