extreme care as a great curiosity.

"The little girl to whom it was given by her father lived to grow up,
but has been dead many years. Shortly before her death she gave it to a
friend, and it has been in that family for over forty years."

"And is it on exhibition, papa?" asked Elsie.

"Only to such as are fortunate enough to get an introduction to the lady
owner through some friend of hers; so I understand; but photographs have
been taken and are for sale in the stores."

"Oh, I hope we will get to see it!" exclaimed Lulu eagerly.

"As far as I'm concerned, I'm bound to manage it somehow," said Betty.

"How much I should like to know what was really the true story of that
poor unfortunate child," said Elsie, reflectively, and sighing as she
spoke.

"It--like the story of the Man in the Iron Mask--is a mystery that will
never be satisfactorily cleared up until the Judgment Day," remarked her
father.

"Oh, do tell us about it," the children cried in eager chorus.

"All of you older ones have certainly some knowledge of the French
Revolution, in which Louis XVI. and his beautiful queen lost their
lives?" Mr. Dinsmore said, glancing about upon his grandchildren; "and
have not forgotten that two children survived them--one sometimes called