Bring us where we may rest ourselves and feed."

VIII. "TO MEET ROSALIND"
"Put you in your best array."

IX. THE LOST RING
"Wear this for me."

X. CELIA
"One out of suits with fortune."

XI. MAKING FRIENDS
"Is not that neighborly?"

XII. THE GILPIN PLACE
"This is the Forest of Arden."

XIII. IN PATRICIA'S ARBOR
"O, how full of briers is this working-day world."

XIV. THE ARDEN FORESTERS
"Like the old Robin Hood of England."

XV. A NEW MEMBER
"In the circle of this forest."

XVI. RECIPROCITY
"Take upon command what we have."

XVII. A NEW COMRADE
"I know you are a gentleman of good conceit."

XVIII. AN IMPRISONED MAIDEN
"The house doth keep itself,
There's none within."

XIX. OLD ACQUAINTANCE
"And there begins my sadness."

XX. THE SPINET
"Though art not for the fashion of these times."

XXI. "UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE"
"Must you then be proud and pitiless?"

XXII. CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
"I sometimes do believe and sometimes do not."

XXIII. THE DETECTIVE
"'Twas I, but 'tis not I."

XXIV. AT THE AUCTION
"Assuredly the thing is to be sold."

XXV. QUESTIONS
"They asked one another the reason."

XXVI. THE PRESIDENT
"--And good in everything."

XXVII. OLD ENEMIES
"Kindness nobler ever than revenge."

XXVIII. BETTER THAN DREAMS
"I like this place."

XXIX. AT THE MAGICIAN'S
"I would have you."

XXX. OAK LEAVES
"Bid me farewell."

ILLUSTRATIONS

"'How sweet the breath beneath the hill
Of Sharon's lovely rose'" (Frontispiece)

"Do you know Miss Betty?"

"Looking up, he discovered his visitors"

"They crossed over to speak to her"

"She chose a chest of drawers"

CHAPTER FIRST.

THINGS BEGIN TO HAPPEN.

"A magician most profound in his art."

It was Sunday afternoon. The griffins on the doorstep stared straight
before them with an expression of utter indifference; th