Then he sat down beside us on the rocks at the Mermaid 's Pool and told us the whole story , and read his letter to us . It was the most amazing thing . It seems Father had had relations after all -- a brother and a sister in particular . But when he was a young man he quarrelled with his brother , who did n't treat him very well -- but he 's been dead for years , so I wo n't say a word against him -- and had gone away from home . He never went back , and he never even let them know he was living . Father says that this was very wrong of him , and I suppose it was , since he says so ; but I do n't see how Father could do anything wrong . Anyway , he had a sister Esther whom he loved very much ; but he felt bitter against her too , because he thought she took his brother 's part too much . So , though a letter of hers , asking him to go back , did reach him , he never answered it , and he never heard anything more . Years afterward he felt sorry and went back , but his brother was dead and his sister had gone away , and he could n't find out a single thing about her . So much for that ; and now about the kite . The letter Father had just received was from his sister , our Aunt Esther and the mother of Dick and Mimi . She was living at a place hundreds of miles inland . Her husband was dead and , as we found out later , although she did not say a word about it in the letter , she was very poor . One day when Dick and Mimi were out in the woods looking for botany specimens they saw something funny in the top of a tree . Dick climbed up and got it . It was a big red kite with a patch on each side and names written on it . They carried it home to their mother . Dick has since told us that she turned as pale as the dead when she saw our names on it . You see , Philippa was her mother 's name and Claude was her father 's . And when she read the letter that was pasted over the hole in the kite she knew who we must be , for it was the very letter she had written to her brother so long ago .
So she sat right down and wrote again , and this was the XXXXX Jake Wiggins brought to the Big Half Moon .
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