The secret garden

other delighted.THE CURTAIN 335As soon as Mary had made surethat John was really on his wayback to hisown quarters below stairs, Colin got out of hischair." I am going to run from one end of the galleryto the other," he said," and then I am going tojumpand then we willdo Bob Haworth's exercises.'And they did all these things and many others.They looked at the portraits and found the plainlittle girl dressed in green brocade and holding theparrot on her finger." All these," said Colin, " must be my relations.They lived a long time ago. That parrotone, I believe, is one of my great, great, great,great aunts. She looks rather like you, Marynot as you look now but as you looked when youcame here. Now you are a great deal fatter andbetter looking."" So are you," said Mary, and they bothlaughed.They went to the Indian room and amusedthemselves with the ivory elephants. They foundthe rose-colored brocade boudoir and the holein the cushion the mouse had left but the micehad grown up and run away and the hole wasempty. They saw more rooms and made morediscoveries than Mary had made on her first pil*