After a day of delightful enjoyment, the hour arrived for them to return
home, and having so much less to pack up than there was at starting, they
were soon on the journey homeward.
Before the picnickers separated, there was a driving party arranged to go
to Rustico Beach, Brackly Point or Cove Head, for another day's outing, and
the day was set for the drive.
CHAPTER XXIII.
The next morning, when the mail was opened, Dexie received a letter from
home, in which, beside the commonplace news, there were pages devoted to a
startling and amusing announcement.
"Just think," Gussie wrote, "there is a man at the Gurney's who has come
all the way from Australia to find Hugh, and to tell him about the fortune
left him by his father. It amounts to a very large sum, and will make Hugh
one of the wealthiest men in the Province, so, of course, he is now quite a
different person in my eyes than when he was a mere clerk. Unfortunately
for me, he is not so agreeable and friendly as he used to be, and he does
not come in to see me nearly so often as formerly, but I manage to meet him
frequently, and treat him with so much favor that I am quite sure I will
have no difficulty in securing him.
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