Such things have been known." Redwood burst into desperate laughter.

"The redundant royalty--the bouncing babe in the Iron Mask!" he said.

"They'll have to put her in the tallest tower of the old Weser Dreiburg castle and make holes in the ceilings as she grows from floor to floor! Well, I'm in the very same pickle.

And Cossar and his three boys.

And--Well, well." "There'll be a fearful row," Bensington repeated, not joining in the laughter.