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;tem, Will, it 15 not all Came on —
ithere eonie latelow Mood in its
!veittee ent Bet ey Barlow's, too, •
and eels e•en't wIteit it out. Katy
lead a elee Jo tale h T own chidd
etcher,. •Ii aserl, and eon are not
la lime it you v:11,111r0 Or it, as
Svo 1our oyes you to (ICI.
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renew., .0.•
ii lord to retort., even
hail h.. be. a Wet its: it. and he eon- ;
tcetted Wee. df uffit a ha -relay toss
.of his heed as she left the room to
get herself in readinees for the jour-
ney she insisted ui on taking. Wil-
fordis is glad she was going, as
her presottre at Silverton would rer
neve hint Of the awkward embarrass -
Ment he ulways felt when there; and
anagnanimonely forgivine; her for the
Id:dimes.; of her spteeh, ho was the
most at of brothers until Sil-
verton was vomited, tied he found Br.
tlrant await ing for blue Something
in his facteas he ettine forward to meet
them. startled both Wilfore and Bell,
the latter of whom asieel quickly :
-Is the baby hotter?"
"Bulks is dead." was th.• brief re-
ply, Yip:1 Wilfred etteesesed back
aerainst tin. diew-post. WI11•111 he lean-
ed a moment for support in that
'lest great shock for which he was
eot prepared.
tfpc•n the door -step Boll sat down.
crying totitely, for she had loved the
,ehildand rte list' nod anxiously
-while Mr)rris repeated the particulars
of its illness and then Spoke a,f Ka-
ty's, reproac.hine herself so bitterly
for having brought it front New
London. "She seems entirely crush-
ed." he continued, when they "were
driving towurds the farm -house.
"For a few hours I trembled. for her
reasort,
ii hilt' the ft in' that you
.might reproach her added much to
the poignaney of her grief,"
Morris eald this very calmly, as
if it v'et'o not what he hall all the
while intinticd sayiug, and his eye
turned -towards Wilford, whose lips
were eompt.essed with the emotion
Ice was trying, to control. It was
Bell aho said impulsively, "Poor
Katy. I knew she would feel so, but
it is inmecessavy, for none but a
savage would reproteelt her now, ev-
en if she were in fault."
Morris blessed Bell Cameron in his
heart, knowing how Intlell influence
her words would have upon her bro-
ther, who brushed away the first
tear he had shed, and tried to say
that "of course she was not to
blame." .
iiThey were in sight of the farm-
house lbw, and Dell, with her city
ideas: was looking curiously at it,
tentallY pronouncing it a nicer,
i
ae
pleasauter place than she had sup-
posed. It was very quiet about the
,house. and old Whitey's neigh
- Morris's span of bays came up was
.the only eo.tnd which 'erected them.
: In the wood-sh:d door Thiple . EP)te
' paint sat smoking his clay 13ipe, while
i
by his side, upon a log of wood,
holding a pan of the, luscious peach-
es she was slicing up for tea, sat a
i. Woman whom Bell knew at once for
Aunt Betsy Barlow, and who, pan in
hand, came forward to Meet her,
'
curtsying very low when introduced
a by Morris, and asking to be excused
. from shaking hands, inasmuch as
. hers were not lit to be touched.
. Bell's (pack eye took her in at a
glance, from her clean spotted gowtt.
to her plain. muslin cap, tied 'with a
. black ribbon, put On that day with a
e view to mourning, and then darted
' off to Unele Epluetint, who won her
; FELL AWAY TO
A SHADOW.
All Her people Thought She HO
CONSUMPTION.
.( -Mrs. Win. Martin, Lower Ship Harbor
'• 'East, N.S., writes:—"I am sending you a
4estimonial of my cure by Dr. Wood's
Norway Pine Syrup, Last May I took
a cold, and it settled on my lungs. I got
+to bad I could not rest at night. I had
• two doctor e to treat me but got: no relief.
"AU of my people thought" I had
,Consumptiop, I had fallen away to a
*
/ • ehadovt. t had 'given up all hopes of
over getting better agaia.until my daugh-
ter went to a store one day and bought
,ine a bottle of Dr. Wood's IsTorway Pine
*up. After taking half of it I felt
; better, so I got two more, and thanks to
;them X am well to -day, and able to do
,my house work. I cannot sey too much
in its praise, an I shill saways keep it hi
; :the house."
Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup coet.
his all the iting healing virtue* of the
famoue Norway Pine tree whith makes it
Ilk the very best preparation for Coughe,
t Colds and all Throat and Lot Troublot.
I See that you get "Dr. Wood's" *bele
I you ask for it. There are many itnita.
Alone on the market.
Price, 25 and 50 dents.
See that the name, 'the T. Mill:qui
Co Liniited, is On the yellow wrapper.
heart at epee whi.n she heard how
hIs voice trinablet1 as he took Wil-
ke d's hand and said so pityingly, so
tather-lihe, "Youngman, this is a
sad day for you, and you have my
sympathy, for I remember well how
my heart ached when, on just Such
a day as this, my only child lay
dead as y0111% is lying."
IeverY muscle of Wilford's facer
nuiverad, but he was too proud to
;mow all that he felt, and. he was
glad wlit.n Ilelen appeared in the
door, as that, diverted his mind, and
he greeted her cordially, stooping
down and kissing her forehead, it
thing he had &Yee done before. But
sorrow is a great softener, and Wile:
ford was very sorry, feeling his loss
more here, where everything was so
quiet. so suggestive of death.
"Where is lettere" he asked.
"She is sleeping for the first time
since the eahy died. She is in here
with the child. She will stay ne-
m here else,'"Helen said, opening the
door of the bedroom, motioning Wil-
ford in.
With hushed breath and a beetle.;
heart. Wilford stepped across the
threshold, and Mien closed the door,
leaving hint alone with the living
and the dead. Pure and beautiful as
some fair blossom, the dead child
lay upon the bed, the curls of gold-
en hair clustering about its head,
and on its lips the smile which set-
tled there when it tried to say
"mamma." Hard indeed, would Wil-
ford have been had he cherished ono
bitter thought against the wife so
wounded. He could not when he saw
her, but no one ever knew just what
passed through his mind during the
half hour he sat there beside tea*,
escarcely stirring and not daring to
kiss his child lest he should awaken
her. He could hear the ticking of
hie watch and the heating of his
heat as he waited for the first sound
which should herald Katy's waking.
Suddenly there was a, low, Rasping
amen. and Katy's eyes unclosed and
reteed on her husband. He was bend -
a' or her in an instant, and her
arms item round his neck, while she
said to hint so sadly:
"our eaby is dead—you've nobod,•
• left but me: and oh! Wilferd, you
Will not blame nu; tor britteing baby
Ii .re ? 1 did not think rhe'd die.
I'd !sive my life for hors if the`
atetiti bring her haek. Would yo t
ratee it was me lying as baby lies,
a ..1 she line? In yonr arms?"
• • No, h a ty," Vi lint d a neweetal,
an] t y his voice Katy knew that sh
Was wholly forgiven, crying on lee
neck in a plaintive, piteous way,
whi'e Wilford *mailed and pitied end
tareesed, feeling enbtleed and humb-
led, mid we must conioss it, feelime
too how very good and generous It,
wile to be tied forbearing. when hu:,
for Katy's act of disobedience they
enight not no7W be childless!'
With a great gush of tears, Thel
Camel on bent over the little form,
and then enfolded Katy in a more
loving embrace than she had ever
given hoe before: but whatever she
might have said was prevented by
the arrival of the coffin, and the
confusion which followed.
Much Wilfot•d regretted that New
York was so far teway, for a City
coffin was more suitable; he thought,
for a child of his, than the one
Which Dr. Grant had'iiedered. But
•
that was really of less consequence
than the question where the child
should be burled. A :costly monu-
ment at Westwood was in accbrd-
apelp with hie, ideas, belt all things
indicated a contemplated burial there
In -the country churchyard, 'and
sorely perplexed, he doffed on Bell as
the only Cameron at hand, to know
What he should doer)
"Do Just as Kitty prefers: was
Dell's reply,. as she. led -hine,to ' the
coffin and pointed to the nodne :
"Little Genevre. Cameron. aged nine
months and twenty days."
..".'Whale. is it, Wilford—what is the
matter?" she' asked as her brother
turned whiter than ells, .child.
'Had "Genevra Lambert, aged 22,"
met his eye, he could not have been
more startled titan he. Was: but Soon
rallying, he said to Morris:
-The child was baptized Shen?"
"Yes, baptize0. Genet:era, That was
Katy's choice, I understand," Mor-
ris replied, and Viliifora bowed his
head, wishing the Genevra across the •
sea might know that hits child • bore
her name.
"Perhaps she does," he thought, •
and his heart grew warm with the
Miley that possibly in that other ,
world, whose existence he Dover real-
ly doebted, the Genevra he 'had
wronged Would care for his child, if
children there need care. "She Win
know it is mine at. least," he said,
antI with a thoughtful face lie went
lii quest of Katy, whom he found
sobbing by the side of the mourning
garmente just sent in for her inspec-
t
il,'Ord had spoken to her of
tb•eonwood, but she hati begged' se
hard that he had givea.up that idea, ,
stig•gesting next as More in accord-
ance With city eustont, that Shit re-
main et home While he only folio Wed
to the grave; but -keen,. this. Katy
needled in Ruch distress OW he
tosee that ult too. and bore, manila-
niniously as he thought, the sigtht of
all the learlows standing aroand
that grave, alike mourners With him ;
self, and all a, right to be there.
Wilford felt his less deeply, and his
heart 'Kited to the very core as he
heard the gravel rattling deem upon
the coffin -lid Which covered the beam.
tiful (Mid he had leved so Mean 1
eat forgot thathe was Wilford Came
mon, and infinitely superior to the
crowd around him — eecept, inteeel,
his wife, his sistee, 1)1.. Grant. and.
Helen. • Ile could bear to see them
perry, and feel that by their sorrow
they honored the memory of his
child. But for the rest—the village
berth, with the Bartows itt their tient
--he had no allinity, and his manner
was haughty and distant as evet• us
he passed through their midst bard:
to the carriam., which took hint
again to the farm -house.
CHER APTXXXI.
Had there leen a train back to New
%
York tileaft PrnO 011 \\ Word would
most cur Willy have suggested going;
but as there • vas none he passed the
time as well as he cottld, finding
Pell it great help to him, but won-
&wt hy; theshe coned assimilate so
modify with stab peoPle, &Mating
herself in love with the faruahouse,
end eaying she should like to cc -
main there for weeks, if the days
I Were all ite suttee- as he this, telah-
lies as gorgeously bright, and the
peaches by the well as delicious and
ripe. To these the city girt took
readily, visiting them the last thing
before retiring, while Wilford found
her there silica he arose the next
morning, her dress and slippers near-
ly spoiled with the heavy dew, and
her hands full of the fresh fruit which
Aunt Betsy lemelted from the tree
With a quilting rod: het. dress
pinned around her waist, and disclos-
ing 0, petticoat. scrupulously clean,
but patched and mended with so
many different patterns and colors
that the original ground was lost,
and none could tell whether it had
been red or black, buff or blue. Be-
tween Aunt Betsy and Bell the most
amicable feeling had existed ever
since the older lady had told the
younger how all, the summer long she
bad been drying fruit, "thimble -ber-
ries and buckle -berries" for the
soldiers, and how she was now dry-
ing peaches for Willard Buxton—
once their hired man. These she
should tie up in a salt bag, and put
in the next box sent. by the society
of which she seemed to be the head
and front, "kind of fust directress''
she said, and Bell was interested at
once, for among the soldiers down by
the Potomac Was one who carried
with him the whole of Bell Camer-
on's heart; and who for a few days
had tarried at just such a 'dwelling
the farm -house, writing back to
her so pleasant descriptions of it,
with its fresh grass and shadowy
trees, that she had longed to be
there to. So it Was through thits
halo of -romance aod love that Bell
looked at the farm -house and its
occupants, preferring good Aunt Bet-
sy because she .seemoti the most in-
terested in the soldiers, working as
soon as breakfast was over
upon the peaches, and kind-
ly furnishing her beet check
apron, together with pan and knife
for Bell, who offered her assistance,
notwithstanding Wilford's warning
that the 'fruit would stain her hands,
and his advice that she better be
putting up her things for going
home.
"She was not going that day."
she said, ,point blank, and as Katy
too had asked to stay a little long-
er, Wilford was compelled to yield,
and taking his hat sauntered off to-
ward Linwood; while Katy went liste
lessly into the kitchen, where Bell
Cameron sat, her tongue moeine
much faster than her hands which
pared so slowly and cut away so
much of the juicy pulp, besides mals-
ing so frequent journeys to her
mouth, that Aunt Betsy looked in
alarm 'at the rapidly disappearing
fruit, wishing to herself that "Miss
Camera had not 'listed."
But Miss Camera had enlisted, and
SO had Bob, or rather he had gone
to his duty, and as 'she worked, she
repeated to Helen the particulars of
his going, telling how, when • the
war fireit broke out', and Setaer was
bombarded, Bob, who, from long as-
aociation with Southern men at West
,
Feint, 'bad imbibed Many of their
ideas, was very. sympathetic. with
the rebelling States. gaining the cog-
nomen of a secessionist, and once ac-
tually thinking of casting in his lot
with that side rather than' the other.
But a, little incident saved hien she
..said. The remembrance or a queer old
'lady whom he met in the cars, and
who, at parting held leer weinkled
hand above his head in benediction.,
chaegiiig hint not to go against, the
promising her prayers for
his Safety, if found on the side of the
"I wish you could hear Bob tell
the story, . the funny part, I mean,"
: 'she continued, earrating as well as
she could the poetical:les of Lieuten-
ant' Deb's meeting 'with Aunt Betsy,
who, as the story progresses, and
she recognized ..herself- in the queer
old Yankee woman, who shook handl
with the conductor and was going to
law about a sheep -pasture, dropee
nd d
her head lower alower over' her
Pon of peaches, while a scarlet flushspread itself tilt over her thin face,
but changed to a grayish white asBell 'concluded with "Bob says the
memory of that hand lifted ,above
his head haunted him day and night.
during the period of his uncertaintee
and was at last the means of Meeting
hint from treachery t h' t •
• Out amid it. all Ire never firtotietn-
eteitsliMINONIMilsegete.;'..ieertee...---......
"Thank God!" came involuntarily
from Aunt Betsy's; quivering lips,
and, looking up, Bell saw the great
tears running down her cheeks, teare
Which wets wIpied away with her arm,
while she said faintly, "That old
woman Who Made a fool of herselfla
the cars, was mei"
" You, Miss Barlow, youl"
Bell exclaimed, fergetthig in. her
aetonisliment to carry' to her
mouth the luscious half peach she
had intended fot• that Purpose, and
th'opping it inutasted icuto tha P
while Kitty, who had beau listening
With, considerable interest, came
quickly forward saying, "You, Aunt
Betsy! when were you in No* York,
and why did I never know it?"
It could not be kept back and, un-
mindful of BeTI, /lelen explained to
aty as Well as she
e
cumetanees of Aunt Betsy's vieit to
New Yoh the previous winter.
"And she Dowry. 144+ 1.11
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4 AIM' AtIlOW rc or
eolt-re to see me, beeattee--beeause-..e0 morning.
Katy hesitated, and looked at Bell, They did not see Marian liaeolton
nice said, pertly, "ileeattee IVillla so again, awl Katy wondered at it, dee
abominably proud, and would have tiding that in some things Marian ;
made sech it, fuss. Don't, spoil a, 5%.11.4 Very peenliar, While WilfOrfl rind
:miry for n;Ititionat Sate, I beg," and Bell wen. disappointed, Ile both had
the young Indy Iteughed good-humore it chains to neat and eonveree with •
edly, restoring peace to all save Kay Ono who hall 1,V.•11 so like a (*Vona
WI1081. face won, a treelike!. look, mother to the little dead Genevra,
mid who soon stain away to her milord 81,04e of ids child now as
.4rWthor. 10101/1 she questioned further Genevra, but lo Katy it Watt Baby
with regard, to a circemstance which still; and, with ellohing SOhn anti Pas-
seenitar, se mysterious to her. titmicl ,. tears, elle bade gOrol-hy41 tO
, -Mies Barlow," Boll said, when the mound underneath wheel it
; Nets. wee gone, •'yott will forgive me wee Wren and then went bark to •
for ro' c.atillg that SlOry 4114 I did. Of New York,
course I had no idea it was you of ,
whom I was talking." CHAPTER xxxrx.
Bot was very earnest, and her eyes re
looked pleadingly upon Aunt Betsy, "tny IV" very nithuPPY in her rift'
who alisWored her hack, "There's no-
thing to forgive. You only told the
truth. I did make an old fool of my -
Fele hut if helped that boy to a
lett decision, my journey did some
good, trod I ain't, sorry now if I did
go to the play -house. I confessed
tel irritatetl Gait she should mourn
that to the sewing circle, and Sara
so deeply for the child which, but
Peacon Bannister halal seemed the
eatee since, but I don't care. I beat
her on the election to first directress
of the Solclier's Aid. She didn't run
bolt as well as me. That chap—you
teal 1101e -is ho anything to you? Is
Iii' your beau?"
It was Bell's turn now to blush
aed then grow white, while Helen,
tom•hing the superb diamond
on her first finger, said, "That indi-
cates ite much. When did it happen,
Dell?" a
Mee. 'Cameron had said they were
not a 'family to bruit their affairs
abroad, .and if so, 13(41 was not like
her family, for she answered frankly,
"Jest before he went away. It's a
selendiel diamond, isti't it?" and she
held it up for 'Helen to inspect.
The basket, was empty by this; time,
anti as Aunt Betsy went to fill it
front the trees, Bell and Helen were
It'll ahem, and the former continued
in a .low, bad' tone. "I've been so
eorey sometimes that I did not tell
l'ob I 10%1 hint, when he wished me
to so moth."
-Not tell him you loved himI How
then meld you tell hint yes, as it
appeal% you did?" Helen asked, and
leel answered, "I could not well help
that: it came so sudden and he beg-
ged, so hard, saying my premise
weeiTri make hint a better man, a
'letter soldier and all that. It was
tree very night before he went, and
So Te said that out of pity and pee
'.rit,tisin 1 would give him the pro-
.nise. nut' 1 did, but it seemecl too
much for it woman to tell a man all
cmi onee that she loved him, and I
wouldn't do it, but rye been sorry
shean oh, FO sorry, during the two
Jays when we heard nothing from
him after that dreadful battle of Bull
Run. We knew he was in it, and I
thought I shmild chic until his tele-
gram came saying he was safe. I
did it down then and commence a
letter, confessing all, but I' tore it
.up, and lie don't know now, just how
I feel."
• "And do you really love him?"
lichen asked, punierl by this strange
girl, who laughingly held tql her soft,
white hand, stained and blackened
with the juice of the fruit she had
been paring, and said, "Do you sup-
pose I would spoil my hands like
tiat. and incur ma chore mamma's
displeasure, if Bob were not in the
aemy and I did not care for him?
And now allow me to catechise you.
Did Mark Ray ever propose and you
retase hint?"
"Kever!" and Helen's face grew
crimson, while Bell continued: "That
is tunny. Half our' Circle think so,
though how the • Impression was first
given I do not know. Mother told
1110, but would not tell ewhere she re-
ceived the information. I heard of
it again in a few days, and have rea-
son to believe that Mrs. Banker
knows it too, and feels a little un-
comfortable that her -son should be
refused When she considers hint wor-
thy of the Empress herself."
Helen was very white as she asked,
"And how with Mark and aline?"
"Oh, there isnothing between
them." Bell replied. ,"Mark hae
scarcely called on us since he return -
home, and the world, us she looked
upon it, seemed utterly Owe:less
For nitieh of this unhappiness -Sal-
ford wtts hiturelf to blame. After
the Mat few clays, clueing which he
was r, 11 kindnees and devotion, he
dill not try to volefert her brit stein -
ed front WashingtOn with his regi-
ment. You are certaln you never
cared for him?"
This was so 'abrupt, and Bell's
eyes were so searching that Pfele t
grew giddy for it awl/lent, ot.d wisp -
eel the back of the chair, as she le-
plit d : ••1 did nbtestty I never cared
for hint. I said. he never irroposel!:
and that is trute he never Ohl."
"And if he had?" Bell continued,
never taking her eyes front Velem
who, had She ' been less agitated,
would haVe deided.Bell's rieett to
question her NO closely. Now, how -
for her indiscretion, might have been
living still. lie did not like staying
at home, and their evenings, when
they were alone, passed in gloomy
silence. At last "Mrs. Camerour
brought her influenee to bear upon
her daughter-in-law, trying to rouse
tier to something like her olden in-
terest in the world; but all to n9
effect, and matters grow constantly
wot•se, art Wilford thought Katy un-
reasonable and selfish, while Katy
I teed hard not to think hint harsh in
his judgment of her, end exacting in
his requirements. "Perhaps site MIS
the um most in fault; it could not
be pleasant for hint to see her so en-
tirely changed from what she used to
be," she thought., one 'needing late
in November, when her husband had
just left, her with an angry frown up-
on his fans' and reproachful words
upon his lips.
Fat her C1111101'011 and his daeghters
were out. of town. and Mrs. Cameron
had asked Wilford and Katy to dine
with her. But. Katy did pot wish to
goennil Wilford had left her in anger,
saying- "she could suit herself, but he
slimed go at all events."
Left alone, Katy began to feel that
she had done wrong in declining the
invitation. Surely she could go there.
and the echo of the hang with which
Wilford had elmetel the, street door
was still tilwatin
g at 11.tt• eat', irtlea
her resolution began to 'give way, and
white Wilford was riding moodily
down town, thinking luu•Sh things
ag'aiest her, she was meditating what
thought, might be an agreeable
stu•pre,e. She would go round and
meet hint at dinner, t vying to appear
as nt,tch like. her old self as, site could,
and so :Atone tor anything- which had
hitherto been wrong in her demeanor.
Later in the day Esther wits Seat
Inc to arraege her mistress's hair, as
ehe hail not arranged it since baby
died. Wilford had been annoyed by'
the smooth bands combed so plainly
back, and at the blaekness of the
dress, but now, there 'tract a change,
acid graceful curls fell about. the -face,
rit lug IL the girlish expression which
Violet liked. The soberness of the
leek dress was relieved by simple
s of white crape at the throat
mil wrists, while the handsome jet
reatnents, the gift of Wilford's fa -
:me edited to the style,and benuty
.1' the childish figure, which lad sed-
mian(' wait big for the earriage. At the
n looked lovelier than whenit
msis;.:leyr
.10or there was a ring, and
t. hrotteht a note to Nate., who read as
el7ows:
t -ear Katy: I have been .suddenly
eri'led to leave the city on business,
vbi it tell probably detain me for
h. PO (11:* s or ntore, and as I must: go
et the night tt•ain, I wish Esther' to
e my i ortmanteau ready with
.4 -ate‘ or I may need for the jou, •
-v. As l proposed this morning, I
dice' with mother, bet come
-eats immediately after dinner.
W. Camerun.
ISatv was glad now that she Mid
elekel to meethim at his mother's,
1 he kuowing site had pleased hin
mid make the time of his absence
zi 1. able, and after seeing tb t
thing was ready for hint she
stepped with a comparatively light
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eneedi e, •
thus blunting the pain she might
otherwise have felt as he went on to
speak of Silverton and its inhabit-
ants just as he would not have spok-
en had he known she was so near.
Then, encouraged by his mother, he
talked again of her in a way which
made her poor aching heart throb as
she whispered, sadly: "Ile is disap-
pointed in me. I do not come tip to
all that he expected. I do very well,
coesidering my low origin, but I ant
not what hubs wife rhould be."
Wilford had not said all this, but
-Katy inferred it, and every nerve
quivered with anguish as the wild
wish came over her that, she had
died on that day when she sat in the
summer grass at home waiting for
Wilford Cameron. Poor Katy' she
thought her ettp of eorrowfull, when,'
alas! only a drop had as yet been
poured into it, But it was filling
fast. and Mrs. Cameron's words : "It
might. have been better with Genev-
ra," Was the first outpouring of the
overa behniug t orrent which for a
moment bore her life and sense away.
She thought they meant her baby—
the little Genevra sleeping under the
snow in Silvet•t on—aud her white
lips answered, "Yes., it would be bet-
ter," before Wilford's voice was
heard saying, as he always said: "No
I have never wished Genevra iii
Katy's place: though I have some-
times wondered what the result would
have been 'had I learned in season
how much I wronged her."
Was heaven and earth coming to-
gether, or what made Katy's brain
HO cliezy. and the room so dark, as,
with head bent forward and lips
apart, she strained her ear to catch
PVPIT WOrd of the conversation which
followed, and in whichj she saw
glimpses of thet leaf offered her once
ICI read, and front which she had pro-
mised not to shrink should it ever
be °west upon her? But she did
shrinK, oh! eo shudderiegly, holding
up her hands and striking them
through the empty air as if she
would tht•ust asule the tremble spec -
in' risen no suddenly before her. She
had heard all that she cared to hear
tit Aitother word and she starlit'
ccuc el y die where she was, sri thin
U hearing of the voices still talking of
- Genevan Stopping hoe ears to t.hut
•
Out the drembee sound, she tried to
s' think whet she ehould do. To man
- the door and tenth the street is as
11.`r Ot`riPP, ii ml throwieg on her
maseetttes SliP WPIlt noiselm hit()
• the 1.;01, owl carefully turehig the
lo.e.; end c' a•ing the door behin ' lu r,
:de feentl Itesalt alone In the ad
in the desk of a November dieht.
But Katy vets eot afraid, and draw-
ing her hood closely over her
she sped on until Iter own home.. wns
•
• reaehed, alarming* Esther with her
frightened face, but explaining that
she had been taken suddenly ill ape
returned before dinner.
"Mr. Cameron Will be here soon,"
she saki. "I do not need anything,
to -night, en you can Iewve atone
and go where 3.ou like—to the thea-
tre; jf you choose. I heard yott evy
you wieited to go. Here is the re:n-
ey for you mut Phillips," and hotel-
ing a till to the puzzled Fe thee. she
thstmssea her from the room.
Meanwhile, at the elder Catner.on'e,
no one hall it suspicion of lialty.14 10 -
cent presence, for the girl who hal
admitted her had gone to visit a
sick fester, with whom Nile WO S to
epend the eiglit. Thus Kat yat eeeret
was safe, and Wilford, When at last
he bade hie mother goodenve and
started for home, Wee not PrePareth
for the livid face, the bloodshot meet,
and the etrange, nenatural looe
NOIR% met hint at the threshold.
ICaty answered hits ri ig herself, bee
hands grits; lug his lierterly, And
dragging lent up the stairs to her
own room, where, more like a mini-
ae than Katy ('macron, ?lite eontront-
ed him With the etartliog mmetion:
"Who tat Geneva% Lathltert? It -le
time 1 hem before commie/leg t neat -
Or :sin. Tell nice Wilford. ab t• is
she?"
11.
tl
ever, she answered blindly, "I do not t
know. cannot tell. 1 Shought hint
elm:aged to Juno."
''Well, if (list is not the rarer.
game of cross-purposes that P ever. r
knew," Deli ea id, wiping her hunch: e
'limn Aunt, Betsy's apron, and pi•e-
paring to attack the piled up haskc,
just brought in.
l'urtli. t'tctvt'ersation wasPe.•
slide, and With her mind in a perfect
•tempeet of thought, lIelen went away
trying to decide what it was best for
her to do. Some one had spread the,
report that she had refused fdarl;.
Ray, telling of the refusal of course
or how else could it. have been known?
and this accounted for Mrs. Banker's
long con t Mittel silence. Since, lid -
oil's rettn•tt to Silverton Mrs. Bunker
had written two or three land, friend»
le. letters, which did her so much
good: but these had suddenly ceased,
and nebet's last remained unanswer-
ed. She sew the reason now, arety.
nerve quiveting with pain as she im-
agined what Mrs. Banker must thin%
of one who could make a refusal ptib-
lie, on' what was ten -fold worse, pre-
tend to an offer she never received,
niSho must despise me, and Mark
flay. too. if 110 hitS heard of it." she
said. reeolving one mointai t imi ask
11,11 t o explain to Mrs. Banker, and
then eh:teeing het. mind anti conchal -
lag to lel matters take their couree,
thasuovelt tte interference front }ter
might lie temstrued by the mother in-
to undue interest in the eon. "Per-
haps Dell will do it without my ask-
ing." she Outfight, and this lame t,
mutat toward keeping late epaite up
On that last day of Katy's stay at,
teem.. for elm Vries going hack in the
t.
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t iti il; • 11 e.% Ott i
ttt is -dc se if el. Leong. Viet.. ,pee
the hoe. t s 01,14 so 11....e ii I tier -
1 bet 1 Inn v lo %0 the (W.(0 al...
to It et ni ;h1, knouiee lio,
of i•leeteal g limey ;tetty will be."
• ;,,eettot 1,0e, t is mo.se than 1
rentele t tete. on said, with r
s. Pc Nitt, with a eeet
pr1,1,1 soh, t, i ti to I irlat go t,
,o tell 11.eitt she was tberte-t
tateeee Kate, te, et, twee her Meet, et
etnet al to her hysbuittl.
1;111 1•01. v111140r1 mote, and
r he ..tte'c back powerless in her ehait ,
cotaltet tel to lielea to things which
ho tette Inieband would ever say to a
mother- of his mil espeeially when
t hat etefe's teem: cotteisted principal-
ly in mourning the child "which
bet for her imprudence might have
Iii ,'i Ii. hug then." 'Flume were Wile
ford's stay words, and though Katy
bait ont•e expected hint to say them,
they rattle upon her noel with a
dreadful shock, making her view 11er-
R51 the muttlet•er of her child, rend
Ito be continued.)
POOR FELLOW.
A man entered a shop one bitter cold
1
day, and bought a woollen muffler.
' When he opened the muffler he found,
inside i
t the photograph of a beautiful
'girl, together with a note saying:
"If you are single, please write to
me." •
A name and address followed, and the
man smiled, He was single, and he
pat the photograph on his sitting -room
mantel. There, every evening, looking
up from his book, he beneld it It was
very beautiful, and in a week he had
fallen head over heels in love.
So he wrote to the girl. Another
week psssed, a week of anxious nerve-
racking suspense. Then the love-sick
man received, this crushing letter.
"Sir, The Mary Smith to whom you
wrote was my grandmother. She died
nine years ago, aged Si Youre truly."
Our heart -broken bachelor, on looking
into this strange matter, found that he
had foolishly bought the muffler from a
dealer who didn't advertise.
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