One of her early day-dreams has been realized, so that she is quite independent in point of funds.
A year or two ago, an elder brother of her poor father found Alick in California, and of course, being both Scotchmen and McGregors, they at once set to work to find out how they were related. David McGregor learned for the first time that he had a niece living who was a very nice young woman. He at once sent her a present of a sealskin jacket and an alarmingly heavy chain of California gold, and dying not long after, left her a moderate fortune. So that our heroine is really at last the heiress of McGregor.