Gate

The **gate** is a gate that used to stand on the grounds of Greenglass House, in the time of the Bluecrownes. By Doc Holystone's time, it was gone, and Milo Pine found the gate woven throughout Greenglass House.

## History

### *Bluecrowne*

Lucy noted that there was a gate at the top of the hill. She later hung a lamp given to her as a gift from a lantern hook on it.

### *Greenglass House*

When Milo Pine found the nautical chart, he held it up to a lamppost and could see a watermark, which looked like a wrought-iron gate that was slightly warped. When the map was stolen from Milo and a decoy was left in its place, Milo noticed that the decoy paper had the same watermark as the nautical chart had. Meddy asked him whether he'd seen the gate before, and he realized he had. Milo led her to the window on the fourth floor, where the metal that held the glass together had a gate shape hidden in it. He held up the decoy paper and saw that it was exactly the same gate as in the watermark. They wondered whether there had once been an iron gate on the grounds, deeming that perhaps a long time ago there had been. Milo and Meddy found the gate in each one of the windows on the stairwell.

Meddy noticed that Greenglass House was stitched on Mrs. Hereward's ditty bag, and on the other side there was an iron gate. Milo and Meddy mused about how many things were connected to Greenglass House and its gate, Meddy thinking that it had been two hundred years since the house had first been built, which left plenty of time for a gate to have been there and then been removed. After finding Mrs. Hereward's ditty bag (it had been stolen), Milo noticed that the gate on the bag had a lantern on it, unlike the gate on the watermark and in the windows. Meddy and Milo wondered if the gate had been on the grounds or if it was a separate picture. They asked Mrs. Hereward, but she did not know anything about the gate. Milo later found Julian's lantern, and connected it with the lantern on the gate on Mrs. Hereward's bag.

Clem Candler had found Greenglass House through the gate watermark. Milo asked how, and she explained that she'd found half of the actual gate in an antique shop. The seller of the shop knew where it had come from, and had pointed her to Greenglass House. Clem told Milo that there was a different way up the hill when the house was first built, and Milo knew of a break in the woods, but couldn't figure out how the gate could have been there, because it was a steep cliff. Clem theorized that part of the slope had collapsed, and she had been told that the gate was the original entrance to the grounds.

Meddy mused that the gate had something to do with the original house, and Milo went outside and looked at the slope. He wasn't able to tell if Clem was right about the gate, but he believed her.

When digging in the storage outbuilding for the sleds, Milo found half of the gate. It was rusted and twisted and definitely the same one. He had been expecting the gate the size of the door, but it was actually, he realized, a small garden gate. It was the same one, he knew; there was even a hook for a lantern. Milo asked his father where the gate had come from, but Mr. Pine did not know. Milo promised to show Mr. Pine the gate on the windows in the stairwell. After going sledding, Milo told Meddy that he'd found the gate, and she was delighted.

### *Ghosts of Greenglass House*

Milo noted that the Gate Windows each had a warped gate hidden somewhere in them.