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Then putting it in an envelope , he rang the bell and directed the servant to give it to one of the grooms with orders to ride with it at once to the nearest telegraph station . `` Now , Rupert , the best thing you and Madge can do is to go out for a walk . You can know nothing more until the letter arrives , and it will be better for you to be moving about than to be sitting here quietly . Your mother had best lie down until the letter comes ; it can not be here until five o'clock . '' Madge and Rupert as they walked talked the matter over in every possible light , the only conclusion at which they arrived being that whoever might be Edgar 's father and mother they would always regard him as their brother , and should love him just the same as before . `` I can not think why he ran away ! '' Madge exclaimed over and over again .