CHAPTER XIV
The Mystery Cleared Up
"Father, who are these people who have walked into Holt Farm as if it belonged to them?" asked Jessie that same evening. "Is it for them you have kept it so beautiful?"
The vicar hesitated a moment, looked at his daughter, then said quietly:
"Yes, Jessie, it was for them."
"Why have you never told me about them? Have you known them long?" she asked.
"I baptized that child," he answered, "and I buried her mother; she lies beneath the chancel in our little church."
"Where the cross is in the pavement, Father?" Jessie asked.
"Yes, there," he answered.
"There is no name," said Jessie softly.