You will find a little Christmas remembrance for each of you on the dining-room table . I hope you will make as merry as you possibly can and we will have you down again as soon as we come back . Your hurried and affectionate , AUNT JEAN We looked at each other somewhat dolefully . But , as Alberta pointed out , we might as well make the best of it , since there was no way of getting home before the five o'clock train . So we trailed out to the stationmaster , and asked him limply if he could direct us to Mr. Norman Young 's house . He was a rather grumpy individual , very busy with pencil and notebook over some freight ; but he favoured us with his attention long enough to point with his pencil and say jerkily , `` Young 's ? See that red house on the hill ? That 's it . '' The red house was about a quarter of a mile from the station , and we saw it plainly . Accordingly , to the red house we betook ourselves . On nearer view it proved to be a trim , handsome place , with nice grounds and very fine old trees . We found the key under the kitchen doorstep and went in . The fire was black out , and somehow things wore a more cheerless look than I had expected to find . I may as well admit that we marched into the dining room first of all , to find our presents . There were three parcels , two very small and one pretty big , lying on the table , but when we came to look for names there were none . `` Evidently Aunt Jean , in her hurry and excitement , forgot to label them , '' said Elizabeth . `` Let us open them . We may be able to guess from the contents which belongs to whom . '' I must say we were surprised when we opened those parcels . `` We had known that Aunt Jean 's gifts would be nice , but we had not expected anything like this .
There was a magnificent stone marten collar , a dear little gold watch and pearl chatelaine , and a gold chain bracelet set XXXXX turquoises .
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