leased to see it, thinking that by means of her they might get John to
renounce his power, and become their servant, for they were fond of him,
and would willingly have had him to wait upon them, for the love of
dominion is their vice. They were, however, mistaken. John had learned
too much from his servant to be caught in that way.

John's chief delight was walking about with Elizabeth, for he now knew
every place so well that he could dispense with the attendance of his
servant. In these rambles he was always gay and lively, but his
companion was frequently sad and melancholy, thinking on the land above,
where men live, and where the sun, moon, and stars shine. Now it
happened in one of their walks, as they talked of their love, and it was
after midnight, they passed under the place where the tops of the glass
hills used to open and let the underground people in and out. As they
went along, they heard of a sudden the crowing of several cocks above.
At this sound, which she had not heard for several years, Elizabeth felt
her heart so affected that she could contain herself no longer, but
throwing her arms about John's neck, she bathed his cheek with her
tears. At length she said--

"Dearest John, everything down here is very beautiful, and the little
people are kind and do nothing to injure me, but still I have been
always uneasy, nor ever felt any pleasure till I began to love you; and
yet that is not pure pleasure, for this is not a right way of living,
such as is fit for human beings. Every night I dream of my father and
mother, and of our churchyard where the people stand so pious at the
church door waiting for my father, and I could weep tears of blood that
I cannot go into the church with them and worship God as a human being
should, for this is no Christian life we lead down here, but a delusive
half-heathen one. And only think, dear John, that we can never marry, as
there is no priest to join us. Do, then, plan some way for us to leave
this place, for I cannot tell you how I long to get once more to my
father, and among pious Christians."

John, too, had not been unaffected by the crowing of the cocks, and he
felt what he had never felt there before, a longing after the land where
the sun shines.

"Dear Elizabeth," said he, "all you say is true, and I now feel it is a
sin for Christians to stay here, and it seems to me as if our Lord said
to us in that cry of the cocks, 'Come up, ye Christian children, out o