`` That is one of my mother 's old letters , '' said Freda . `` She had a sister , my Aunt Worth . She was a great deal older than Mother . Their parents died when Mother was a baby . Aunt Worth went to her father 's people , while Mother 's grandmother took her . There was not very good feeling between the two families , I think . Mother said she lost trace of her sister after her sister married , and then , long after , she saw Aunt Worth 's death in the papers . '' `` Can you tell me where your mother and her sister lived before they were separated ? '' asked Margaret excitedly . `` Ridgetown . '' `` Then my mother must have been your mother 's sister , and , oh , Freda , Freda , you are my cousin . '' Eventually this was proved to be the fact . Margaret investigated the matter and discovered beyond a doubt that she and Freda were cousins . It would be hard to say which of the two girls was the more delighted . `` Anyhow , we 'll never be parted again , '' said Margaret happily . `` Fir Cottage is your home henceforth , Freda . Oh , how rich I am . I have got somebody who really belongs to me . And I owe it all to Dr. Forbes . If he had n't suggested you coming here , I should never have found out that we were cousins . ''
`` And I do n't think I should ever have got better at all , '' whispered Freda , slipping her hand into XXXXX 's .
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