Your mother was my half-sister , and you are my niece . '' Everybody exclaimed and for a few moments they all talked and questioned together . Then Mr. Kirby explained fully . `` I was born on a farm up-country . My mother was a widow when she married my father , and she had one daughter , Worth Mowbray , five years older than myself . When I was three years old , my mother died . Worth went to live with our mother 's only living relative , an aunt . My father and I removed to another section of the country . He , too , died soon after , and I was brought up with an uncle 's family . My sister came to see me once when she was a girl of seventeen and , as I remember her , very like you are now . I never saw her again and eventually lost trace of her . Many years later I endeavoured to find out her whereabouts . Our aunt was dead , and the people in the village where she had lived informed me that my sister was also dead . She had married a man named Gordon and had gone away , both she and her husband had died , and I was informed that they left no children , so I made no further inquiries . There is no doubt that you are her daughter . Well , well , this is a pleasant surprise , to find a little niece in this fashion ! '' It was a pleasant surprise to Worth , too , who had thought herself all alone in the world and had felt her loneliness keenly . They had a wonderful evening , talking and questioning and explaining . Mr. Kirby declared that Worth must come and live with them . `` We have no daughter , '' he said .
`` You must XXXXX to us in the place of one , Worth . ''
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