IV
Dean wrote a little while before the quiet bridal at New Moon. A fat letter with an enclosure... a deed to the Disappointed House and all it contained.
"I want you to take this, Star, as my wedding-gift. That house must not be disappointed again. I want it to live at last. You and Teddy can make use of it as a summer home. And some day I will come to see you in it. I claim my old corner in your house of friendship now and then."
"How very... dear... of Dean. And I am so glad... he is not hurt any longer."
She was standing where the To-morrow Road opened out on the Blair Water valley. Behind her she heard Teddy's eager footsteps coming to HER. Before her on the dark hill, against the sunset, was the little beloved grey house that was to be disappointed no longer.
THE END