The secret garden

CHAPTER XVIIA TANTRUMOHE had got up very early in the morning^ andhad worked hard in the garden and she wastired and sleepy, so as soon as Martha had broughther supper and she had eaten it, she was glad togo to bed. As she laid her head on the pillowshe murmured to herself:" I'llgo out before breakfast and work withDickon and then afterward I believe I'll goto see him."She thoughtit was the middle of the night whenshe was wakened by such dreadful sounds thatshe jumpedout of bed in an instant. What wasit what was it? The next minute she felt quitesure she knew. Doors were opened and shut andthere were hurrying feet in the corridors and someone was crying and screaming atthe same time,screaming and crying in a horrible way." " It's Colin," she said. He's having one ofthose tantrums the nurse called hysterics. Howawful it sounds."As she listened to the sobbing screams she did218