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The Secret Garden

CHAPTER XXVII
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The man held a salver with some letters on it and he waited quietly until Mr.Craven took them.

When he had gone away Mr.Craven sat a few moments holding them in his hand and looking at the lake.

His strange calm was still upon him and something more--a lightness as if the cruel thing which had been done had not happened as he thought--as if something had changed.

He was remembering the dream--the real--real dream.
"In the garden!" he said, wondering at himself.

"In the garden! But the door is locked and the key is buried deep." When he glanced at the letters a few minutes later he saw that the one lying at the top of the rest was an English letter and came from Yorkshire.


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