QG THE BOY FROM GREEN GINGER LAND

turned from a garden-party to find not only the twins, but Alice, the little day-girl who had been inveigled into joining the game, in the deepest disgrace, and Jane muttering terrible things about ‘ warnings.’ Fortunately the affair passed off with- out such dire consequences, but from that time forward Mr. Brown’s study was forbidden ground.

It was a great disappointment; but consolation was not long in coming, for it was only a very few days later that they discovered the Feudal Castle.

Aunt Grace had gone to a garden-party, and the three children were spending a blissful after- noon in the wood. Emmeline had curled herself up comfortably with a story-book, but the twins happened to be Red Indians that day, and had gone off on a desperate expedition against the Pale Faces. Before long they came rushing back to Emmeline, and insisted on dragging her off to see ‘ something wonderful.’

‘ Something wonderful’ proved to be merely an empty cottage, hardly more than a hut, indeed, uhich, from its broken windows, torn thatch, worm-eaten door, and altogether forlorn appear- ance, looked as if it had been deserted for several years. Emmeline grasped its capabilities at first sight, and when the twins led her inside and triumphantly displayed a three-legged chair with a broken seat, and part of what had once been a tabltr-when she saw the grate, rusty and cob-