Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-12-18 | Page 19 | Eric, Fox and Elsa Sit all Day Locked in Castle Tower

I Santa and the Talking Doll i ; Eric, Fox and Elsa Sit All Day Locked in Castle Tower L- By Sigrid Arne to find Leezen. Erie and th king and Elsa sat all night and talked. But when dawn cam all t h guards returned discouraged. They hadn't heard a word of Uen - Then the white fox spoke. He , aid, "Erie, let me look. Maybe the guardsmen thundered down th roads to fast they saw nothing." "I shall be grateful," said Erie, So the fox loped off so fast he looked like a moving sunbeam. He didn't take the high roads. He , slipped quietly through the woods, asking the first of a flock of crows, i "Have you seen doll called Lessen'" Les-sen'" The oldest crew said, "No. But keep going north." So the fox raa on. Then he met an ermine trailing through the white snow. The ermine er-mine said, "Keep going north." So the fox went on. Then he saw a blight red cardinal sitting high on a pine tree. The cardinal said, "I can see down the next hllL There are three trolls digging, ask them." So the fox ran on. When he taw ' ti.e trolls he hid behind a tree to .watch i, Then . he grinned so he showed all his pointed teeth. Eack one of the trolls was wearing a blue cornflower. And you remember remem-ber Leexen wore cornflowers la lx 4.U lUa trolls earns runhina euLtt ihacaVti- The story se fan Erie and Elsa and the white fex are taken prisoners at the eaetle ef Wes phalia after earning through a eaala ef magta mountains. They are seeking Lieeaea, a dell, but she has rua away to took fee Erie, CHAPTER 13 Erie and the fox and Elsa had to sit all day locked In a tower room In the castle of Westphalia. But the fox nibbled .and chewed at the rope binding Eric's hands. Just at dusk the rope broke and Eric whipped out his flute and began be-gan to play a beautiful cradle song. His tune flew out of the window on a little breeze and was carried down Into the windows of the banquet hall where the king sat eating alone. He was disturbed because Lee-sen, Lee-sen, the doll, was gone. Now he looked op with a pleased smile at Eric's flute song. "Quick," said the lng to a guardsman at the door, "find that musician and bring him here." So In a few minutes Erie and the fox and Elsa walked Into th banquet ban-quet hall. "Pray who are you?" asked th king. "Your muslo is tweet and clear." Eric told him the story of Leesen. The king shook his head and looked puzzled. He said, "I am looking for her, too. Or I should be. She was gone when I woke." "Gone!" exclaimed Eric "What can have happened? W must seek her." "Have patience," said the king. "I shall send guardsmen out over all the roads." So guardsmen were tent out to ride swiftly over all the kingdom ner nsir. So the fox watched the trolls all afternoon and when they turned homeward he followed. They cam , to their cave end disappeared. Then the fox wheeled around and ran so swiftly back to the king's palace that his feet left no marks on the snow. "Eric," he cried as he leaped info th banquet hall. "Come. I think I have found her." There was great excitement In the banquet ball. The king loaned Erie his fur robe. And the old woman kissed Erie oa the forehead. Then Erie and th fox ststed back for the trolls' cave. When they arrived at th eav Erie winked mischievously at th fox, held his flute to his Up and played a strange tune. It sounded like coins falling on each ether, "Clink, dink, dink." In a twinkling twin-kling the trolls cam running out of th cave, but they didn't see Erie behind a big tree. Erie stepped slowly backward through the woods playing, "Clink, cltnkety, dink." And the trolls ran round and about crying, "Gold, gold. There's gold dropping from the skies." They ran a and en, and for all I know they are still running. But Erie circled back to th cave to seek Leexen, Tomorrow: A task it set for Eri and Leexen.