Whom is your letter from ?" "Leslie--and, oh, Gilbert--" "Leslie! Whew! What has she to say?
What's the news about Dick ?" Anne lifted the letter and held it out, calmly dramatic in a moment.
"There is NO Dick! The man we have thought Dick Moore--whom everybody in Four Winds has believed for twelve years to be Dick Moore--is his cousin, George Moore, of Nova Scotia, who, it seems, always resembled him very strikingly.

Dick Moore died of yellow fever thirteen years ago in Cuba.".