This is the only place where one can say to a stranger 'Behold Drumtochty,' and he will see it at a flash and at its best."

" You're brighter than your father, Kit, and a contented lassie to boot, and for that word I'll take you straight to the Plea saunce."

" What a charming name ; it suggests a fairy world, with all Bortsof beautiful things and people." "Quite right, Kit" —leading the way down to a hollow, surrounded by wood and facing the sun, the General opened a door iu an ivy-covered wall—" for there is just one Pleasaunce on the earth, and that is a •garden." It had been a risk to raise certain people's expectations and then bring them into Tochty garden, for they can be satisfied with no place that has not a clean-shaven lawn and beds of unvarying circles, pyrethrum, calceolaria, geranium, and brakes of rare roses, and glass-houses with orchids worth fifty pounds each, which is a garden in high life, full of luxury, extravagance, weariness. As Kate entered, a moss rose which wandered at its will caught her skirt, and the General cut a blossom which she fastened in her breast, and surely there is no flower so winsome and fragrant as this homely rose. " Like yourself, Miss Carnegie," and the General rallied his simple wit for the occa sion, " very sweet and true, with a thorn, too, if one gripped it the wrong way." Whereat he made believe to run, and had

the better speed becmse there were no gravel walks with boxwood borders here, but alleys of old turf that were pleasant both to the touch and the eye. In the centre, where all the ways met, he capitu lated with honors of war, and explained that he had intended to compare Kate to a violet, which was her natural emblem, but had succumbed to the temptation of her eyes, "which make men wicked, Kit, with the gleam that is in them." " Isn't it a tangle ?'' Which it was, and no one could look upon it without keen delight, unless he were a horticulture' pedant in whom the appreciation of nu, <.><■.. had been killed by parterres. There was some principle of order, and even now, when the Pleasaunce is a wilderness, the traces can be found. 