Was HE killed too ? '' asked Felix . The Story Girl sighed and resumed her work . `` No , indeed . I wish he had been . THAT would have been suitable and romantic . No , it was just something horrid . He had to run away for debt ! Fancy ! He acted mean right through , Aunt Janet says . He never sent even a word to Rachel , and she never heard from him again . '' `` Pig ! '' said Felix forcibly . `` She was broken-hearted of course . When she found out what had happened , she took all her wedding things , and her supply of linen , and some presents that had been given her , and packed them all away in this old blue chest . Then she went away back to Montreal , and took the key with her . She never came back to the Island again -- I suppose she could n't bear to . And she has lived in Montreal ever since and never married . She is an old woman now -- nearly seventy-five . And this chest has never been opened since . ''
`` Mother wrote XXXXX Cousin Rachel ten years ago , '' said Cecily , `` and asked her if she might open the chest to see if the moths had got into it .
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