At last their ship was brought alongside a quay and made st. The three travellers were taken ashore and marched p into the City. Crowds of Earthmen， no two alike， rubbed houlders with them in the crowded streets， and the sad ght fell on many sad and grotesque faces. But no one howed any interest in the strangers. Every gnome seemed o be as busy as it was sad， though Jill never found what hey were so busy about. But the endless moving， shoving， urrying， and the soft pad.pad.pad went on.
At last they came to what appeared to be a great castle， hough few of the windows in it were lighted. Here they ere taken in and made to cross a courtyard， and to climb any staircases. This brought them in the end to a great urkily lit room. But in one corner of it.oh joy！ .there as an archway filled with a quite different sort of light； the onest， yellowish， warm light of such a lamp as humans use. hat showed by this light inside the archway was the footf a staircase which wound upward between walls of stone. he light seemed to come from the top. Two Earthmen ood one on each side of the arch like sentries， or footmen. The Warden went up to these two， and said， as if it were a assword：
“Many sink down to the Underworld.”