it every night and always in a different part of the
Gardens. She thought one of the lights was
bigger than the others, though she was not quite
sure, for they jumped about so, and it might have
been another one that was bigger. But if it was
the same one, it was Peter Pan's light. Heaps of
children have seen the light, so that is nothing.
But Maimie Mannering was the famous one for
whom the house was first built.

Maimie was always rather a strange girl, and it
was at night that she was strange. She was four
years of age, and in the daytime she was the ordi-
nary kind. She was pleased when her brother
Tony, who was a magnificent fellow of six, took
notice of her, and she looked up to him in the
right way, and tried in vain to imitate him and was
flattered rather than annoyed when he shoved her
about. Also, when she was batting she would
pause though the ball was in the air to point out
to you that she was wearing new shoes. She was
quite the ordinary kind in the daytime.

But as the shades of night fell, Tony, the swag-
gerer, lost his contempt for Maimie and eyed her
fearfully, and no wonder, for with dark there came
into her face a look that I can describe only as a
leary look. It was also a serene look that con-
trasted grandly with Tony's uneasy glances. Then
he would make her presents of his favourite toys
(which he always took away from her next morn-

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