He remembered well when the first of them had been planted that just at this season of the year their late glories should reveal themselves.
Late roses climbed and hung and clustered and the sunshine deepening the hue of the yellowing trees made one feel that one, stood in an embowered temple of gold.

The newcomer stood silent just as the children had done when they came into its grayness.

He looked round and round.
"I thought it would be dead," he said.
"Mary thought so at first," said Colin.

"But it came alive." Then they sat down under their tree--all but Colin, who wanted to stand while he told the story.
It was the strangest thing he had ever heard, Archibald Craven thought, as it was poured forth in headlong boy fashion.

Mystery and Magic and wild creatures, the weird midnight meeting--the coming of the spring--the passion of insulted pride which had dragged the young Rajah to his feet to defy old Ben Weatherstaff to his face.