. Jimbo : a fantasy. JIMBO than once, when he was inclined to play tricks, ^ theyare in quite a different world to ours. You cannottake liberties with them. Even a sympathetic soullike yourself only touches the fringe of their exchange surface-messages with them, nothingmore. Some trees have terrible forces just belowthe surface. They could extinguish you altogether—absorb you into themselves. Others are naturallyhostile. Some are mere tricksters. Others areshifty and treacherous, like the hollies, that moveabout too much. The oak and the pine and theelm are friendly, and you can alw
. Jimbo : a fantasy. JIMBO than once, when he was inclined to play tricks, ^ theyare in quite a different world to ours. You cannottake liberties with them. Even a sympathetic soullike yourself only touches the fringe of their exchange surface-messages with them, nothingmore. Some trees have terrible forces just belowthe surface. They could extinguish you altogether—absorb you into themselves. Others are naturallyhostile. Some are mere tricksters. Others areshifty and treacherous, like the hollies, that moveabout too much. The oak and the pine and theelm are friendly, and you can always trust themabsolutely. But there are others ! She held up a warning finger, and Jimbos eyesnearly dropped out of his head. No, she added, in reply to his questions, you cant learn all this at once. Perhaps She hesitated a little. Perhaps, if you dont escape, weshould have time for all manner of adventures among the trees and other things but then, we are going to escape, so theres no good wasting timeover that!. 177 N CHAPTER XIV AN ADVENTURE But Miss Lake did not always accompany him onthese excursions into the night ; sometimes he tooklong flights by himself, and she rather encouragedhim in this, saying it would give him confidence incase he ever lost her and was obliged to find hisway about alone. * But I couldnt get really lost/ he said once toher. I know the winds perfectly now and thecountry round for miles, and I never go out infog But these are only practice flights, she replied. The flight of escape is a very different matter. Iwant you to learn all you possibly can so as to beprepared for anything. Jimbo felt vaguely uncomfortable when she talkedlike this. * But youll be with me in the Escape Flight—the final one of all, he said ; and nothing evergoes wrong when youre with me. I should like to be always with you, she 179 i8o JIMBO CHAP. answered tenderly, ^ but its well to be prepared foranything, just the same. And more than this the boy could never get outof
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