The_Complete_Chronicles_of_Narnia_(volumes_1-7,_in_order_of_publication)

"Just what I was thinking," said Caspian. "I wonder which it was. There's nothing on the
dagger to show. And I wonder how he died."
"And how we are to avenge him," added Reepicheep.
Edmund, the only one of the party who had read several detective stories, had meanwhile
been thinking.
"Look here," he said, "there's something very fishy about this. He can't have been killed
in a fight."
"Why not?" asked Caspian.
"No bones," said Edmund. "An enemy might take the armour and leave the body. But
who ever heard of a chap who'd won a fight carrying away the body and leaving the
armour?"
"Perhaps he was killed by a wild animal," Lucy suggested.
"It'd be a clever animal," said Edmund, "that would take a man's mail shirt off."
"Perhaps a dragon?" said Caspian.
"Nothing doing," said Eustace. "A dragon couldn't do it. I ought to know."
"Well, let's get away from the place, anyway," said Lucy. She had not felt like sitting
down again since Edmund had raised the question of bones.
"If you like," said Caspian, getting up. "I don't think any of this stuff is worth taking
away."
They came down and round to the little opening where the stream came out of the lake,
and stood looking at the deep water within the circle of cliffs. If it had been a hot day, no
doubt some would have been tempted to bathe and everyone would have had a drink.
Indeed, even as it was, Eustace was on the very point of stooping down and scooping up
some water in his hands when Reepicheep and Lucy both at the same moment cried,
"Look," so he forgot about his drink and looked.
The bottom of the pool was made of large greyish-blue stones and the water was
perfectly clear, and on the bottom lay a life-size figure of a man, made apparently of
gold. It lay face downwards with its arms stretched out above its head. And it so
happened that as they looked at it, the clouds parted and the sun shone out. The golden
shape was lit up from end to end. Lucy thought it was the most beautiful statue she had
ever seen.