CHAPTER I
CAGED BIRDS
CHAPTER II
'MOTHER NATURE'
CHAPTER III
WAS IT AN ANGEL?
CHAPTER IV
ADVENTURES
CHAPTER V
PRINCE
CHAPTER VI
MADE INTO A COUPLE
CHAPTER VII
HAYMAKING
CHAPTER VIII
GOD'S PATCHWORK
CHAPTER IX
BETTY'S DISCOVERY
CHAPTER X
A LITTLE MESSENGER
CHAPTER XI
A DARING FEAT
CHAPTER XII
UNCLE HARRY'S FRIEND
CHAPTER XIII
'WHEN WE TWO MET'
CHAPTER XIV
A HERO'S DEATH
CHAPTER XV
COMFORTED
It was just four o'clock on a dull grey winter afternoon. The littleStuarts' nursery looked the picture of cosiness and comfort with theblazing fire that threw flickering lights over the bright-colouredpictures on the walls, the warm carpet under foot, and the fair freshfaces of the children gathered there.
Five of them there were, and they were alone, for the old nurse who hadbrought them all up from their infancy was at present absent from theroom.
By one of th