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One day Kenneth happened to be with Jim in Mrs. Ellerton's little drawing-room at Castlehurst when the mail was delivered. The thick family letter directed in his father's hand was actually put into his own to pass to Sybil. It was more than a double letter; it contained photographs.
"I never saw any one get such lots of letters and likenesses from one house as you get from yours, Sybil," said Ellerton. "You have duplicates and triplicates of every one at Castle Diarmid, I'm sure. You should make a bonfire of the old, they make such an accumulation of rubbish."