Then she crept across the room, and as she drew nearer the light attracted the boy's attention and he turned his head on his pillow and stared at her, his gray eyes opening so wide that they seemed immense.
[Illustration: "'WHO ARE YOU ?--ARE YOU A GHOST ?'"-- _Page 157_] "Who are you ?" he said at last in a half-frightened whisper.

"Are you a ghost ?" "No, I am not," Mary answered, her own whisper sounding half frightened.
"Are you one ?" He stared and stared and stared.

Mary could not help noticing what strange eyes he had.

They were agate gray and they looked too big for his face because they had black lashes all round them.
"No," he replied after waiting a moment or so.

"I am Colin." "Who is Colin ?" she faltered.
"I am Colin Craven.