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* * * * * Slowly the long hours of the night dragged themselves by , yet Daisy did not return to Glengrove . The hours lengthened into days , and days into weeks , still there was no trace of her to be found . Gertie 's explanation readily accounted for her absence . `` She preferred to leave us rather than deliver my note , '' she said , angrily ; `` and I for one am not sorry she has gone . '' `` Rex did not mention having received it , '' said Bess , `` when he came with Birdie to bid us good-bye . '' `` She probably read it and destroyed it , '' said Gertie , `` Well , there was nothing in it very particular . Toward the last of it I mentioned I would send the note over by Daisy Brooks , my mother 's companion .