longing to ancient worthies, long since dead, while passing by had
recognized in the make-believe castle such a wonderful copy of something
they had known in life that they were tempted to stop and play their
parts again with all this gusto and confusion.

If this were the case, however, Hugh quickly disillusioned the rest of
the group. His quick eye had found an explanation for all this
remarkable happening.

"Well, I declare, who would ever have believed it?" they heard him
saying, for again the riot was beginning to die out, men were brushing
themselves off, while a few others, less fortunate than their companions,
were being pulled out of the moat surrounding the castle, which evidently
held some water, for they appeared to be dripping wet, though taking
it all in good part.

"What have you guessed, Hugh?" demanded Arthur, knowing from the
manner of the scout master that he had apparently solved the mystery.

Hugh was laughing now. The strained look had passed from his young
face. It seemed to him like a jump from the sublime to the ridiculous.

"If you fellows will look over to one side to where that man was turning
the handle of some sort of box just as if he might be an organ grinder,
you'll guess what it all means," Hugh told them, pointing as he spoke.

Cries of wonder and comprehension immediately arose from Alec and
Arthur, though even then Billy and Stallings did not seem to fully
grasp the facts.

"Motion-picture actors at work!" exclaimed Alec.

"Oh! did you ever hear of such a thing?" gurgled Billy, at the same
time beginning to lose the haunted look on his face.

"Sure thing!" added Arthur, grinning now. "That chap is the camera
man---what is it they call it, a cinematoscope or something that way.
He's been grinding like mad while all that battle on the walls was
taking place. And I can see him laughing from here, as if that last
scrap pleased him a whole lot."

"Well, if that don't beat everything!" said Monkey Stallings, in
mingled awe and delight. "To think of a company finding out about
that queer old imitation castle, and coming all the way up here so as
to stage one of their Shakespeare plays around it!"

"And look at all the actors they've gone and fetched along with them,
will you?" Billy went on to say. "Why, there must be scores of men
and women there, all dressed in fancy costumes. Gee! it must cost
_rafts_ of money to stage just one of those dramas."

"Oh!" said Hugh; "e