It was at the death of John Alvin that Mrs. Le Breton’s hopes once more rose.
Surely he would leave something out of his riches for his afflicted daughter!
She sought Thomas Alvin, who was at that time at Regina. He, too, had had hopes of getting something under his brother’s will, and was furious because all was left to Eweretta.
But at her death it was all to come to him.
Aimée was at that time dying, and Thomas Alvin conceived the idea of inducing Eweretta (an easy matter with the tender-hearted girl) to come and visit her half-sister, and befriend her, and then substitute one sister for the other, and claim the money.
It had been so easy!
The dead girl was dressed in Eweretta’s fine clothes, while Eweretta herself was heavily drugged, and dressed in her half-sister’s poor garments. No one doubted that it was indeed Eweretta who was buried at Qu’Appelle.
So Philip Barrimore heard of the death of John Alvin and of Eweretta at the same time. As we know, he journeyed to Canada and saw the grave where his beloved one was supposed to lie.
But no one could tell him what had become of Aimée and her mother.
And now, within a year, Philip had by the merest chance come to be a near neighbor of those he sought! But little did he dream that the girl who passed for Mrs. Le Breton’s daughter was his own lost Eweretta.