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-