'Where am I ?' he said.

'You have fallen out of bed,' said Lady Elfrida." Poor Hester! her face was a picture of perplexity and indignation when she came to read the story all through.

There was clearly no sensible ending possible, and she therefore merely wrote: "Not to this day has the secret of the Castle been solved, but visitors are still shown, on payment of a shilling each, the place where Lord Almeric dreamed he fell from a flying-machine in the year 1135." And then Mr.Lenox's young brother and his friends took them back to the Mitre, and said good-night..