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Updated: May 26, 2025
By this time peace was at hand, and I went back to Inanda's Kraal to look for Colin's grave. It was not a difficult quest, for on the sward in front of the merula tree they had buried him. I found a mason in the Iron Kranz village, and from the excellent red stone of the neighbourhood was hewn a square slab with an inscription.
Mournful, and beautiful, Colin's song came through the windows, and Anne thought of Jerrold who was not there. He was staying in Yorkshire with some friends of his, the Durhams. He would be back to-morrow. He would have got away from the Durhams. ..."'make my bed soon..." To-morrow. To-morrow. "Who are the Durhams, Auntie?" "He's Sir Charles Durham. Something important in the Punjaub.
She had bright hair tied up with a blue ribbon and her gay, lovely eyes were exactly like Colin's unhappy ones, agate gray and looking twice as big as they really were because of the black lashes all round them. "She is my mother," said Colin complainingly. "I don't see why she died. Sometimes I hate her for doing it." "How queer!" said Mary.
The two guards, following the example of their lord and master, commenced beating Harry and Bill, who, unable to make any resistance had to endure the torture in silence. "Go on, my friends!" exclaimed Colin; "for God's sake, go and leave me! You cannot do anything to avert my fate!" Colin's entreaties as well as the torture from the blows they received, were alike without effect.
It was later than the usual tea-hour, so all the children were hungry and, thanks to this, the meal passed quietly. Beata said little, though she could not help laughing at some of Colin's funny speeches.
"What's Colin's wife doing?" he said. "Queenie? She's driving a field ambulance car in Belgium." "Why isn't she looking after Colin?" "That isn't in Queenie's line. Besides " "Besides what?" "Well, to tell the truth, I don't suppose she'll live with Colin after " "After what?" "Well, after Colin's living with Anne." Jerrold stiffened. He felt the blood rushing to his heart, betraying him.
"Set it in the earth thysel' same as th' king does when he goes to a new place." The thin white hands shook a little and Colin's flush grew deeper as he set the rose in the mould and held it while old Ben made firm the earth. It was filled in and pressed down and made steady. Mary was leaning forward on her hands and knees. Soot had flown down and marched forward to see what was being done.
Whether you like it or not, darling, you can't stop me. And I won't let Colin go to a nursing home. It would be the worst possible place for him. Ask Eliot. Besides, he is better. I'm ever so glad you're going to be happy. Your loving i Autumn had passed. Colin's couch was drawn up before the fire in the drawing-room. Anne sat with him there. He was better.
And she was so un-hysterical and natural and childish that she brought him to his senses and he began to laugh at himself and a few minutes afterward she was sitting on her stool again telling him not what she imagined the secret garden to be like but what it really was, and Colin's aches and tiredness were forgotten and he was listening enraptured.
Major Dare had some important business to look after and he purposed to leave the question of the boy's arrangements open for a couple of days, but he saw there would be no peace for any one until Colin's fate was settled, and at the boy's importunity he 'phoned to the Bureau and made an appointment with the Commissioner for the following day.
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