When he knows he has that box to guard during his journeys, he is simply unapproachable.

He would fight any one who attempted to touch it with the ferocity of a hungry tiger, and there is no edible dainty yet invented that could tempt his appetite or coax him into any momentary oblivion of his duty.
There is no more trustworthy or faithful messenger." "I suppose you have sent him to your friend--his master," I said.
"Yes.

He has gone straight home to--Heliobas." This name now awakened in me no surprise or even curiosity.

It simply sounded homelike and familiar.

I gazed abstractedly out of the window at the brilliant blossoms in the garden, that nodded their heads at me like so many little elves with coloured caps on, but I said nothing.