One day when Dick and Mimi were out in the woods looking for botany specimens they saw something funny in the top of a tree . Dick climbed up and got it . It was a big red kite with a patch on each side and names written on it . They carried it home to their mother . Dick has since told us that she turned as pale as the dead when she saw our names on it . You see , Philippa was her mother 's name and Claude was her father 's . And when she read the letter that was pasted over the hole in the kite she knew who we must be , for it was the very letter she had written to her brother so long ago . So she sat right down and wrote again , and this was the letter Jake Wiggins brought to the Big Half Moon . It was a beautiful letter . I loved Aunt Esther before I ever saw her , just from that letter . Next day Father got Jake to take his place for a few days , and he left Claude and me over on the mainland while he went to see Aunt Esther . When he came back he brought Aunt Esther and Dick and Mimi with him , and they have been here ever since . You do n't know how splendid it is ! Aunt Esther is such a dear , and Dick and Mimi are too jolly for words . They love the Big Half Moon as well as Claude and I do , and Dick makes a perfectly elegant shipwrecked mariner . But the best of it all is that we have relations now ! The Bride Roses Miss Corona awoke that June morning with a sigh , the cause of which she was at first too sleepy to understand . Then it all came over her with a little sickening rush ; she had fallen asleep with tear-wet lashes the night before on account of it . This was Juliet Gordon 's wedding day , and she , Miss Corona , could not go to the wedding and was not even invited , all because of the Quarrel , a generation old , and so chronic and bitter and terrible that it always presented itself to Miss Corona 's mental vision as spelled with a capital . Well might Miss Corona hate it .
It had shut her up into a lonely life XXXXX long years .
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