The garden hung high between the building and the cliff, swung by a la casa sperduta of great steel cables. It swung staunchly from its moorings, with the constancy of a suspension bridge, and trembled at the slightest touch. It was at least a hundred feet square. The floor was covered with a foot or more of soil in which the rich grass and plants of the tropics flourished. Cool fountains sprayed the air at either end la casa sperduta the green enclosure the illusion was complete. The walls surrounding the garden were three feet high and were intended to represent the typical English garden wall of brick. There was not an hour in the day when protection from the la casa sperduta could not be found in this little paradise.