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[Illustration: And through it, in trailing velvet, came a lady.—P.
392.]




    THE

    WONDERFUL GARDEN

    OR

    THE THREE C.’s

    BY

    E. NESBIT

    AUTHOR OF
    ‘THE WOULD-BE-GOODS,’ ‘THE AMULET,’ ETC. ETC.


    WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY H. R. MILLAR


    MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
    ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON
    1911




_COPYRIGHT_




          TO

    CECILY, KATHLEEN

          AND

      MAVIS CARTER

     WITH LOVE FROM

       E. NESBIT



    CROWLINK, SUSSEX,
    1911.




CONTENTS


    CHAPTER I                   PAGE
    THE BEGINNING                  1

    CHAPTER II
    THE MANOR HOUSE               13

    CHAPTER III
    THE WONDERFUL GARDEN          34

    CHAPTER IV
    IN THESSALONIANS              50

    CHAPTER V
    THE MIDNIGHT ADVENTURE        67

    CHAPTER VI
    HUNTED                        83

    CHAPTER VII
    BEING DETECTIVES              98

    CHAPTER VIII
    THE HEROINE                  119

    CHAPTER IX
    THE MORNING AFTER            132

    CHAPTER X
    BREWING THE SPELL            152

    CHAPTER XI
    THE ROSICURIANS              175

    CHAPTER XII
    THE OTHER BOOK               191

    CHAPTER XIII
    THE ROSY CURE                209

    CHAPTER XIV
    THE MINERAL WOMAN            222

    CHAPTER XV
    JUSTICE                      244

    CHAPTER XVI
    THE APPEAL TO