 Now the queen's majesty knows by her art that I shall be freed from this enchantment when once she has made me king of a land in the overworld and set its crown upon my head. The land has already chosen and the very place of our breaking out. Her earth men have worked day and night digging away beneath it and have now gone so far and so high that they tunnel not a score of feet beneath the very grass on which the up-dwellers of that country walk.