An evil something began to move in his heart.

'What a fool I am!' he said to himself.

Then he grew angry, and was just going to throw the bird from him and whistle, when a brightness shone all round him.

He lifted his eyes, and saw a great globe of light--like silver at the hottest heat: he had once seen silver run from the furnace.

It shone from somewhere above the roofs of the castle: it must be the great old princess's moon! How could she be there?
Of course she was not there! He had asked the whole household, and nobody knew anything about her or her globe either.