The secret garden

'i SoTHE SECRET GARDENself on the big stool. *Once in India I saw aboy who was a Rajah. He had rubies and emeraldsand diamonds stuck all over him. He spoketo his people just as you spoke to Martha. Everybodyhad to do everything he told them in aminute. I think they would have been killed ifthey hadn't."" I shall make youtell me about Rajahs pres-'but first tell me what the secondently," he said,thing was."" I was thinking," said Mary, 'how differentyouare from Dickon.""Who is Dickon? " he said.name !5" What a queerShe might as well tell him, she thought. Shecould talk about Dickon without mentioningthe secret garden. She had liked to hearMartha talk about him. Besides, she longedto talk about him. It would seem to bring himnearer." He is Martha's brother. He is twelve yearsold," she " explained. He is not like any one elsein the world. He can charm foxes and squirrelsand birds just as the natives in India charm snakes.He plays a very soft tune on a pipe and they comeand listen."There were some big books on a table at hiscid and he dragged one suddenly toward him.