Song,” said Mary, in a queer voice, “and words of it are underlined, Katy, in the same way that the other place I told you of was underlined.” Katy nodded eagerly. She had heard about the clue to the finding of the key. “What does it say?” she asked. And Mary read the lines of the Song:— [62] “It’s lovely!” cried Katy. “And which lines are underscored, Mary?” “‘Of his bones are coral made,’ and ‘Those are pearls that were his eyes,’ and ‘something rich and strange.’ Oh, Katy, what do you suppose Aunt Nan meant this time?” said Mary with eager eyes. “OH, KATY, WHAT DO YOU SUPPOSE AUNT NAN MEANT THIS TIME?” At this point Caliban arched his back and yawned prodigiously, then jumped down on the floor and sat at Mary’s feet, switching his tail. “Hurry and look at the notes at the end of the book, Mary!” cried Katy, almost as much excited as her friend. “I did not know that poetry could be so interesting.” Mary turned hastily to the back of the book. In the margin beside the printed notes were penned several words; references to other plays which evidently Aunt Nan wanted Mary to look up. “Bother!” said Mary in disappointment; “it’s only more quotations. I don’t want to stop for them.” “You had better, Mary,” suggested Katy.[63] “Perhaps if you do they will give you still another clue. See how queer Caliban looks!” [63] The cat was looking up in Mary’s face expectantly; and when she stooped to pat him, he opened his mouth and gave a strange, soundless “Miaou!” “It looked as if he said ‘Yes!’ didn’t it, Katy?” said Mary. “Well, then, I suppose I had better do it. The first reference is to ‘As You Like It,’ Act II, Scene i.” II Mary went to the Shakespeare shelf, found the volume quickly, and looked up the proper place. “Yes!” she exclaimed, “there is a line underscored here, too,—‘Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.’ What a queer saying, Katy! What do you suppose it means? And this is the next quotation, in the ‘Sonnets’—Number CXXXV, Line 1. Here it is! ‘Whoever has her wish, you have your
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