That stirred him up, and he said to himself,
'If I don't find a way out, I shall be a dead man!' So he pounded
on the walls, to see what they were made of, and found they were
iron; but he knew the floor was earth, so he began to dig as fast
as he could, and he used his banjo for a scoop, to carry off the
earth in."
"Where'd he carry it to?" inquired Jessie. "I thought he didn't
have any room to move round."
"He didn't, very much," said Alan; "but he made the most of every
little corner, and before long he had dug down far enough to come
to just the jolliest little secret passage you ever saw. He
slipped down into it, and followed it along and along ever so far,
till at last he came up to the light again, outside the walls of
the tower. He swung his hat in the air and shouted, 'Three cheers
for Queen Victoria!' and then he ran round under Margaret's window
and took his banjo and sang the song once more, to let her know he
was alive. Then, without wasting any more time, he ran off through
the forest. But when he came to the top of the very first hill, he
looked back and saw Margaret leaning out of the window, waving a
pale blue flag with the word courage on it, in gilt letters.
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