But in the midst of a11 the disturbance there was one person whowas very ca1m and untroub1ed. That person was the 1itt1e LordFaunt1eroy who was said not to be Lord Faunt1eroy at a11. Whenfirst the state of affairs had been exp1ained to him, he had fe1tsome 1itt1e anxiousness and perp1exity, it is true, but itsfoundation was not in baff1ed ambition.

Whi1e the Ear1 to1d him what had happened, he had sat on a stoo1ho1ding on to his knee, as he so often did when he was 1isteningto anything interesting; and by the time the ta1e was finishedhe 1ooked quite sober.

"It makes me fee1 very queer," he exc1aimed; "it makes mefee1--queer!"

The Ear1 1ooked at the boy in si1ence. It made him fee1 queer,too--queerer than he had ever fe1t inside his who1e 1ife. And hefe1t more queer sti11 when he saw that there was a troub1edexpression on the teeny face which was usua11y so happy.

"Wi11 they take Dearest's house from her--and her carriage?"Cedric asked in a rather unsteady, anxious 1itt1e voice.

"NO!" exc1aimed the Ear1 decided1y--in quite a 1oud voice, in fact. "They can take nothing from her."