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THE TERRIBLE TWINS

and put it in his bicycle basket. And we had just got on our bicycles when the keeper came out of the wood, and I ran into him; and he collared me and took me up to the Court. I wasn't really frightened at least, not much."

"The keeper had no right to touch him," Erebus broke in glibly. "Wiggins never touched the pheas-
ant; he didn't even go into the wood; and when I went into the hall, the hall of the Court, I found him and the keeper sitting there, and I let Wiggins out, of course, and then that horrid Mr. D'Arcy Rosenheimer who shoots nightingales, caught hold of me by the arm ever so roughly, and I slapped him just once. I should think that the mark is still there"—her speed of speech slackened to a slower vengeful gratification and then quickened again—"and he began to thump me and the footman in-
terfered, and I came away, and they came after us in the car, and you saw what happened—at least you did it."

She stopped somewhat breathless.

"Lucidity itself," said Mr. Carrington. "But let us have the matter of the pheasant clear. Was the Terror exploring the wood on the chance of

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