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BY
MARY
HOI MES,
row cln NO t reeoresils 1 ift' au'l.nuw-
lcdgad 10'.0 for Kitty with tlit' Injunc-
tions t i the Bilih' w1i'se doctrines
yon in'l':• •se?"
"A. i' :u, cannot ale liss, control firs .
feeling., l,••, 1t.• can strive to oxer -
,come 1lu•it' aril 1'ut 'h en u'aide. ('ne,
shoes lint silt ill ;wing aestpti'd, hilt
llr, li^'''tams to 'Ile• ti'tuptat inn."
"Then at 0 ci t!.. • '(, your !: n10, ii'•i's
• all Liotti hi2at tar ;. oil net o'•l;:
have been templed, but have yielded
to te:e:piation.- Wilford veto, I.0,
lith a'. sini',s r hitt!: of ex.:tltaa.i•,u in
his blat'1: eye';.
For a 111o',,u .t )Toms was silr,tt,
whilea '
e of
sons, ll seem-
ed
-ed gn,li i n 1,1 his n .iitl, and then he
said:
"I never ih:)t.;;ht to lay o!'en to,
you a Srs•r•'I which, !MST 10vetf, is,
i belic.e, known only to oue li.i�:,�;•
being."
"And that oat'--'Is--is Katy?" Wil- "
ford i,t•lat'icci, his voice hoarse with
passion : nd his eyes flashing with ,
fire.
"Vo, not Nate.Nate.S h has no sns-
-piclou of ills pain which, since I saw
her made aaothet's, has eaten into
my h' art, ntu'.tue• me grow old so
fejt, and ['desist ins my early mtan-
hJod
e
Sontet!in; in tlorris's tone and-
Iluutner made Wilford reins his grasp
upon the a!•in, and sent. him hack to
his chair, vivito Idot•ris continued:
",!lost min NI wild shrink front talk-
ing to a Inisbaud of the love they
Toro his wife, an 1 an hour ago I
should have '•lu•nu!; from it too, hut
You have forced ale to it, and now
you must listen while T tell you of
my love for 'Katy. It began longer
.ago than she cam remember—began
when site was ms baby sister, and I
hushed her in my arms to sleep,
kneeling by her cradle and watching
her with a feelintr I have never been
. able to define. the was in all my
thoughts, her varve upon the printed
Page of (eery book I studied, and
her voice in every strain of music I
heard. 'Then n'hr n she grew older, I
used to watch the frolicsome child
by the hour, building castles of the
future, when she would be a woman,
and .1 a man, with a man's right to
win her. I !snow that she shielded
111e trout tu'uv a, snare into which .
young n.en are a. t to fail, for win n
the temptation was greatest, and I
was at its verge, a thought of her
was sufficient to lead me back to
•virtue. I curried her in my heart
.across the seal. and said when T. go
back I will ask her to he mine. I
went hack, but at my first meeting
with Katy after her return from Can-
andaigua, she told ane of you, and I
knew
then that hope for
me was
Godthatyou maynew
ne, grant
;go
•er experience what 1 experienced on
that day which outdo her your wife,
and I saw her go away. It seemed
almost as if God had forgotten me
as the night after• the bridal I sat
:alone at home, and met that dark
hour of sorrow. But God was very
merciful and sent me work which
took up all my time, and drove me
.away front my own pain to soothe
the pain of others. When Katy came
do us last fall, there was an hour, of
•trial when faith in Clod grew weak,
and I was tempted to question the
justice of His dealing with lie. But
that too- past, and In my love for
yOur chile! I forgot the mother in
part, looking upon her as a eistcr ra-
ther than the Katy I had loved so
t'weli,
Morris paused a moment, while
Wilford said: "She spoke of tel
for you, Why was that,
and when?"
Thus interrogated, Morris told of.
the message which had brought him
SNOOPING COUGH
•r
LEFT A NASTY,
-DRY COUGH.
!lectors Could Do No Good.
,
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t
' ri ht St. Mary's, Ont.,
Mrs. A. Ma1nw
A
B ,
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(rr
I'
1�f<ites:— I feel it my duty to write and
'l you the good your Dr. Wood's Nor -
y Pine Syrup did for my little boy.
c left him
{
awhoopingcough,which had
Li.
`lth a nasty, dry hard cough. I. took
,iiim to several doctors, but they did him
ibi good, and I could dee my little lad
ling day by day. I was advised to take
or to another doctor, which I did, and
told- me hew asgoingdecline.
Into a C
mE.
it and
w tellingneighbour about
e
told me to et bottle,of Dr. W'ood's
rwa Pine Syrup, and tire it to'fiim
idly. She then got to tell me bow
1 "•uchood it did her children, so Y got a
ttle, and gave it to my little boy, and
so pleased with the result that. I
r.• .ught another one, and by the time he
a• ' finished it be had no cough. He it/
w fatand; strong,and I would not, be,
✓ thout a bottle in the houde On any
count."
Whooping cough generally begins ail a
mown cold aeoompanied with cough -
sad a slight discharge from the nose.
rid
B�
0
a 66 a child'a t u1fNt
t is,• rule,m f c r•
'' rralto affects dultk.o
i' 'Dr. Wood'sNorway Pins Syrup ii a
'lure pr`even'tative if taken in ` and lir
relt
Ifor Any of the litter
�,tLlgo tY':pd�edttite carte y
emit.,
"Dr.re �V ',, is
yellowWood'i"
uta !a a
P
P
apper, three pine trees the trade mark;
es 25 and 60 cents.
L. Mnnutaot red only by The T. Milburn
V..,, Llai ' , Toronto, Oat.
4
lehr
)
to Ni tv York, anti narrated as eau-
tio, ttly as possible the particulate of
the Llitot•\•iew whi h r,di.!vnd.
'.t'' •'•is's ctlrlttnel• was that of a man
v>h 1 ''• ' teiih',,•erect sincerity, and
is 'ailed roltvitei,,lt to Wilford's
le•.It•t.. disa'nling hint for a time of
the !i'"c•e auger and resentment he
had felt while listening to Morris':;
rsur•y. Acting upon the good impulse
of the unnuent, he arose, and offering
hitt btts! to Morris, said:
"1''o,'e'ive me that 1 ever doubted
you. it was natural that you shoo;cl
roles'. hut foolish in Katy to send or
think (lencvra is living. I have seen
her :,•,•n , r
t ,v
11, ,.
y e It. know that she
is then!, 1dd Katy name any one
whom she believe to be Genevra?„
"No one. She merely said she had
recti the origival of the picture,"
'.torr is replied.
"A fancy --a mere whim," Wilford
muttered to himself, as, greatly dis-
quieted (nut terribly humtbled,e pav-
ed • h-
t c
ed the room moddily, trying not to
think hard )
l U
Lhc his'' he
c
tt 1 against
f,e
rlSt
his wife or Dr. Grant, who, fettling
that it would be pleasanter for
Wil
-
f nd if he weregone, suggested re-
tucniag to Silvertoat once, inas-
much as the crisis was past and
Katy oat of r dtf,ul'•er.
There was a
struggle in Wilford's mind as to the
answer he should hake to this stig-
gest lou, but at last he signified his
willingness for the doctor to leave
whc-n he thought best.
It was broad clay when Katy woke,
so weak as to be unable to turn her
head upon the pillow, but in her eyes
the light. of reason was shining, and
vile glanced wonderingly, first at Hel-
en, who had come in, and then at.
Wilford, as if trying to comprehend
whet had happened,
"'Have I been sick?" she asked in
a whisper, and Wilford, bending over
her. replied : "Yes, very sick for
nearly two -whole weeks—ever since f
left home that morning, you know'?"
"Yes," and Katy shivered a little,
'Yes. 1 know, But where is Mor -
r'„ Ile was here the last I can re-
netinher "
Wilford's face grew dark at once,
and x"e!aping back as Morris came in,
he !•:1:d: "She asks for you," Then
with 1t risirig feeling of ies•entm eat he.
'i:,iilad them, while Morris spoke to
It n t y, tela,•" e,'r • h" „
f it, ,.t o
'•lucre . 14.11 . •t y? • 1,1 •
eel ma;e h )" s. e ars a i ., r••
tis 're;•licd in the a:!.i,,.;.t r • e, : n•
said: "Of whom bait 1 tel
"(If (Ienevrir," was 11.e cc r. seS
and Katy continued: "Ind , Las ion
any one Clso:'"
:oi'r•iS tt • " she Morris missed of whom . he v; as
t3
thinking, and answered indilfeelltty:
."You spoke of Zeiss Ilatzcitoa in con-
nection with the baby, but that \,as
all."
Katy was satisfied, and closing iher
eyes fell away to sleep again, while
Morris made his preparations for
leaving. It hardly seemed right for
hint to go just then, but the only one
who could have kept hint maintained
a frigid silence With regard to a
longer etaiy, and so the first train
Which left New York for Springfield
carried Dr. Grant, and Katy was
without a physician.
Wilford had hoped that Mrs. Len-
nox, too, would see the propriety of
accompanying' Morris; but•she would
not leave Katy, and Wilford was fain
to submit to -what he could not help.
No explanation whatever had he giv-
en to firs. Lennox or Helen with re-
gard to Genevra.' He was too proud
for that, but hie mother had deemed
it *I'se to smooth the matter over as
much as possible, and enjoin upon
then both the necessity of secrecy.
'Wheli I tell you that neither my
husband nor daughters know it, you
will understand that I am greatly in
earnest in wishing it kept," she said,
'•lt was a most unfortunate affair,
and though the divorce is, of course,,
to be lamented, it is better that she
died. We never could have received
her as our equal,"
"Was anything the' matter except
that she Wit poor?" Mrs. Lennon
asked, with as much dignity as was
in her nature to assume.
"Well, no. She had a g
ood educa-
tion.I believe, and was very Y PrettY
but it makes trouble always where
there is a great inequality between'a.
husband's family and that of his
wife,"
Poor 1h•s, Lennox understood this
perfectly, but she was too much
afraid of the great lady to venture
a reply, and at tear rolled down her
cheek as she wet the napkin for
-Kitty's head, and wished she had
back again the daughter whose fam-
ily the Camerons despised. Of course
Wilford chafedand fretted at w e
..hat }
is
could not help, making himself sit
generat,lly disagreeable that Helen at
fast suggested returning home. There
was a faint remonstrance on his part,
but Helen did not waver in her de-
cision. and the next day Was fixed
upon for her departure.
"You don't know how I dread your
going, or how Wretched I shall be
without yon," Katy said, tthen''for a
few moments they were alone.
"Everything which once made me
happy has been removed or changed.
Baby is dead, and
Wilford,
oh! Helen
1 sometimes Wish I had not heard of
Genet•f'a, for T SIM 'afraid it can never
be with us at it was once; I have not
the same trust in him, and he seems
so changed."
As Well its She could, Mien coin -
'forted her
rand co n nen I
• her sistd r
'torted Y(tB'
to One who would care for her far
aims* than earthly friends could do,
She bade her good-bye, and with her
mother neat back to Silverton,
CHAPTER, N3:XVIII.
Wilford was in a most unhappy
'frame of mine!. lie had been humid -
ed to the very dust, and it was Katy
who had doer' it- Katy, towards
v.hnt'1 his britt !sept hat liming as lie
iho•It:Lt over all the past:. 'What
radii had she to go to his mother's
after ii,'iidig on"e d''l'jjned; ot•, being
It� tit', trou1 ii- lit had AP to listen
feud time learn the seereL he would
aln'u•,: have (lied to I et'); ut', having
1
1 h ,••r
l
1 why- need
ti!ueh.t•e been
rt
e Tl
flinch h e>se e ,
F I i
t.,;)t. for 1)1
Grout to tr11 her if rIi'• v,ere really a
wife. nioti if not to tithe her away ?
'filo; was the 1 c;,nt suLk-In h-irt hint
most, ler htlrleri to it was the galling
, fact that'91croie (.runt loved his wife,
:u,d was Maul,„ l:t''t!ly mere worthy of
aer
i u:;lt hlln:.' If.
f h,• had no t ie,nt. tsr vomplain of
1:•'•," lie 1ho'h u t.. 11 'gettieg the time
whoa he haid boll guilty of a similar
oli'e,.•e lit a 1:.ut'e aggravated form.
';ie ctiitll not leasoi upon anything
' naturally, atni innities grew daily
r o.•!.c', wll Llr' i.;;t }••s face grew whiter
i:.tel her v mild')' ::ad(1rt' ill its tone.
+,1:'•n the Lenten days carne on, oh
how Katy lodged to be in Silvertomt
--'o !Aloe' tl;,•:lilr In its quiet c'hurc'h,
end offer tip her penitential prayers
with. the loved o1:(5 at home. At
last h^ ventured
ask to 5•
Wilford
if
she
might go, her spirits rising when
he did not refuse her request at once,
but asked:
•
'11'hom do t o z wish to see the
most'?"
His blade eyes seemed reading her
tht•outril, and something in their ex-
pression Ifu brought ,ht
to !vitt face the
blush he constlned according' to his
jealousy, y, and when she answered. "I
wish to see them all'"a retorted:
rete tted:
"Say, rather, you wish to see that
doctor, who has loved you so long,
and who but for me would have ask-
ed yon to be his wife!"
"What doctor, Wilford? whom do
you mean?" she asked, and Wilford
replied:
I)r. (leant, of course. Did you
never suspect it?"
"Never." and Katy's face grew
very white, while Wilford continued:
"I haul it from his own lips ; he
sitting on one side, of you and I upon
the other. 1 so format myself as to
charge him with loving you, and he
did not deny it, but confessed as
pretty a piece of romance as I ever
read, except that according to his
story, it. was a one -Sided affair con-
fined wholly to himself. You never
dreamed of it, he said."
"Never, no never," Katy said,
panting for her breath, and remem-
berfng suddenly many things which
confirmed what she had heard.
"Poor Morris, how my thoughtless-
ness. must have wounded him," she
murmured, and then all the pent up
passion in Wilford's heart burst out
in an impetuous storm.
He did not charge his wife directly
with returning Morris's love; hut he
said she was sorry 'she had not
known it earlier, asking her pointed-
ly if it were not so; and pressing her
for an answer, until the bewildered
creature cried out:
"Oh, I don't • know, I never
thought of it before."
"But you can think of it now,"
Wilford continued, his cold, icy tone
making Katy shiver as, more to her-
self than to him, she whispered:ered:
"A life. at Linwood with him would
ld
be perfect rest, compared with this."
Wilford' had goaded her on to say
that which roused him to a. pitch of
frenzy.
"You can go to your rest at Lin-
wood as soon as you like, and I will
go my way," he whispered hoarsely,
and believing himself the most in, or -
ed man in existence, he left the
house, and Katy heard his "step, as
it went furiously down the steps. For
a time she sat stunned with what
she had heard, and then there Caine
stealing into her heart a glad feeling
that Morris deemed her,worthy of his
love when she had so often feared the
contrary.
"Poor Morris," she .kept repeating,
while little throbs of pleasure went
dancing through her veins, and the
world was not half so dreary for
knowing he had loved her. Towards
Wilford, too, her heart went out in a
fresh gush of tenderness, for she knew
how one of his jealous nature must
have suffered.
And all that day she was thinking
of him, and how pleasantly she
would meet him when he came home
at night, and how she would tryto
,
O
g
wi■ him from the dark silent snood
now so habitual to him. More than
usual pains she took with her toilet,
arranging her bright hair in the long
glossy curls, which she knew he used
to admire, and making sundry little
changes in her black dress, Excite'
meat had brought a faint flush to her
kand was consciousof
cheeks, she a a
feeling of gratification that for the
i Months sitewas looking
'�
first time. in m
like her former self: Slowlythe
minutes crept on, and the Oliver -
toned clock in the dining room Blatt
it was time,for Wilford to collie; the i,
d gathered in the
the night shadows
rooms, and the gas was lighted in
the hall and in the parlor, where
Katy's face was pressed against the
window pane, and Katy's eyes peered
anxiously out into the darkening
streets, but saw no one alighting at
their door. Wilford did not cense.
Neither six, nor seven, nor eight
brought him home,a andKaty
sat
down alone to her dinner, Which,
save the soup and coffee, was remov-
ed untested. She could not eat with
the terrible dread at her heart that
this protracted absence portended
something more than common. Ten,
eleven, and twelve struck from a dis-
tant tower. He had staid out as late
as that frequently, but rarely later,
and Katy listened again for him, un-
til the clock struck one, and :the'g1C*
sick with fear and apprehension. It
was a long, long wretched night, but
atan ear-
' 1came at
last,and
morin
Morning
ly hour Katy drove down to Wile
ford's office, finding no one there be.
sides Tom 'Tubbs and Mills, the
other clerk. Katy could not conceal
her agitation, and her face WO very
white as she asked what time Mr.
Cameron left thee office t1e
preview'
day.
If Katy had one subjert more loyal
than another it Was young Tata
Tubba, whose boyish blood had eftea
boiled With rage at the cool manner
With t.hieh \4nrd treated his wife,
• whe-u, a'; she t:ulu,'1 rut,•:; olid, She, Tama
hit° the orare. 'foul worshiped
roily (':Interum, who in hie whisper-
y
•) uo , c
e.l tt u ! n t:' i) Matta., r 1 I was
an
a! ,rel, while WIlf,'rd was t'c•cu:ed of
!ping nu ii n.rbc.tr•iug tyrant, whom
'l oln wait!,! OLP t o thrash_ is}a. Ile saw
at. Ullee that ;;t)'ii'thing unusual wits
t t'-) d'iii:g be-, and h;tst''iine; to bring
h a t•i;,'ii', fold Ing' tient Mr,
(atro
'•„ le1t othre t four oclack;
I ml;1 lr' 1 u1 Te u'
:Teat t} most n 0
:1 f
1 ,
r.
t .le t., in his '.P
tt 1 private of-
, l
f
1
See
lag'
l wag 'topers;
.
.!'t I. ' .irhis rIr:s so
!many •
aireet h regal'd to curtain mat-
t t Mills had remarked upon
ii , sztaieth "It woldd seems (Ui if he
aid not exl act io he hero to see to
himself:" tend this ui'tm all Katy
t• •;h; bairn. bet it was enough to
es stens, the pt•ov:Lig terror at her
h tet, ):'tel elroppi:'g her veil, sho
•v 't oat to her carriage, followed by
Tom. who ad,ini;tot} the gay robe
.noes her Ian, and then looked wist-
f t r ay i,11..r her as she drove up
I!, Omdway .
"To father Cameron's:" she said
t , the ilei'•er, who t'o'ned his horses
t;•a:girds la is h A vara!, where, just
l"aine: dow:, tilt' steps of his own
i,o :-.r. th• y t. tot the elder Cameron.
;aty ettel t rattler see form first
same, . f nae lolling ing 111111 to her sidle
lie whispered. "Oh, father is Wilford
'•itiilfn:d be - •" the old pian did
)•.
I ! ..,st f expression of
t•i\''S, race :-tOrtlt•ti hint.
'LIott that.- was something wrong,
nod father Cameron knew it., was
I a ty's c•onvietiou, and she gasped
"Tell me the worst. Is Wilford
,i 'rid?"
Father ('antd'i'nt was in the carri-
t he by this time, and riding towards
tt Lison
Square, for he did not care
roiliest Katy into his household
•„•I''lz just
t e.le
scut, I
► S
(nt(d a
r •ane of cirri. confusion and dismay,
1,. cnsionecl I,,: a note received front
'tt'llforcl to the intent that he had left
Low York, tend did not know when
lie should return.
' linty rant tell you why I go," he
t•('tted, turd father Cameron was go -
Lig to Maty when she met hint at
his clout.
To Kitty's repeated question: " Ts
he dead?" he answered: "Worse than
that, 1 fear. Ile has left the city,
and r,u one knows for what, unless
You do. Front something he wrote,
my wife is led to suppose there was
tl'oablt between you two. Was
there?" and wither Cameron's gray
rye s rested earnestly on the white,
frightened face which looked up so
quickly as Kitty gasped:
"!'here has been trouble—that is,
he has not appeared quite the same
since--"
She was interrupted by the carri-
age stopping before her door: but
when they were in the parlor, father
Cameron said:
"Clo on now. Wilford has not been
the same since when?"
Tints importuned, Baty continued:
"Since baby died. I think he blem-
ed me as the cause of its death."
"Don't babies die every day?" fa-
ther C'ame'ron growled, while Katy,
without considering that he had nev-
er heard of Uonet•ra, continued:
"And then it was worse after I
found out about Genevra, his first
wife."
"Genevra! Genevra, Wilford's first
wife! Thunder and lightning! what
✓ e you talking about?" and father
Cameron bent down to look into
Katy's face, thinking she was going
mad,
Belt Katy was not mad, and know -
hug it was now too late to retracts
she told the story of Genevra Lam-
bert to the old man, who, utterly
confounded, stalked up and down the
room, kicking away chairs and foot-
stools, and whatever came in his way
and swearing promiscuously at his
wife and Wilford, whom ho pronounc-
ed a precious pair of fools. with a
dreadful adjective appended to the
fools, and an emphasis in his voice
which showed he meant what h.
sari(!,
•'•it's all accounted for now," he
said; -"the piles of money that boy
had abroad, his privacy with his
mother, and all the other tomfoolery
I could not understand. Katy," and
pausing in hiss walk, Mr. Cameron
Caine close to his daughter-in-law,
who was lying with her face upon the
sofa. "Katy, be glad your baby died.
Ifad it lived it. might have proved a
curse, just as mine have done—not
all, for Bell, though fiery as a pep-
perpod has some heart, some sense—
and there was Jack, my oldest boy,
a little fast, it's true, but when he
died over the sea, 1 forgave all that,
and forgot the chair he broke over a
tutor's head, and the scrapes for
,which i paid as high as a thousand
his
He sowedwild
at one time.
died before he could reap
• and
them—died a good man, I believe,
and went to IIeaven. Juno you
kin
canjudge whether she
know,2d
andyou
I G
is such as would delight a parent's
heart; while Wilford, my only boy, to
deceive me so; I knew he was a fool
in some things, but I did trust Wil-
ford."
The old man's voice shook now,
and Katy felt his tears dropping on
her hair as he stooped over her.
Checking them, however, he said:
crossbecauseyou
was
"Andho
found hint out. Was there no other
reason?"
Katy thought of Dr, Morris, but
she could not tell of that, and so
she answered:
"There was—but please don't ask
me now. I can't tell, only I woe not
to blame. Believe Inc. father, I was
pot to blame."
"I'll swear to that," was the reply,
and father Cameron commenced his
walking again, just as Esther came
to the door with the morning let -
to
rs.
There was one front Wilford for
Katy, who nervously tore oft the en-
%e,lope and read as follows:
-"hill yon lie sorry when you read
this- and find that I ala gone, that
you are free front the husband you
)
do not love,--•wh(31r1, perhaps, hal . �, bou
never loved, though I thought you
did. T trusted you once, and i now I
do not blame you as munch as I
ought, for you are young and easily
influenced. You are very susceptible
to flattery, as with proven by your
career at Saratoga, and Newport.. I
had no suspicion of you then, but
�,
n 1 knowyou better. see
now that b tt 2 I e
that it WitS not all childish situlrlir-
ity which made you mile so gruel -
early upon those who sought pow
favor. You air at coquotto, linty,
end the greater one berit'i•,,' of thut
r
setub..a❑ca of rsrent•,' ht It is t1,
pe'•feetb it of nib 'fl•eas,whots' t er, I
n • e o
might forgive, I 1, 11 l ' a'• e•(
Iif bad 1 ;toted
r,
that tloved trnttnt u
first and
i
t ,Ile ,e •' o wife, 41 ll to Ill ti } ) his tilt whit,
••ou, in t out it," ret ,51u , ii: b on
had La')wn It sooner•11, Dton'tidy,'fty
it. Katy: l saw it in your Mee when
I first told your of Dr. (trout'!t c•on-
feesion. anti I heard it in yu'ct• voice
as well as it your wool. whco yon
said 'A life at. Linwood would lie per -
feet rest euipiu'ed with this.' That.
hurt me cruelly, Katy. i did not de-
serve it from tuna• fur tth".n 1 have
done and bot'ne so much, and it. was;
the final raise of my leaving you, fur
I ant going iu Washington to enroll
myself in the service of my country.
You will lin' lcappiet• without me for
a while. and perhaps when I return,
Linwood will not look quite the lit-
tle paradise it does now.
"1 might reproach you with having
telegraphed. to Dr. Grant about, that
miserable Genevra affair which you
hind not. discretion enough to keep
to yourself. Few men would care to
have their wives send for a former
lover in their absence and ask that
lover to take them away. Your
saintly ronsitt, good as he is, cannot
wonder at my or blame me
greatly for , it, (way. Perhaps he
will offer you comfort, both religious
and otherwise;
but if you
at eve
wish
meto return, avoid
brim its you
would shun a deadly poison. Until I
countermand the order, I
wish
you
to remain in the house which Ji
bought for you. Iichen and your
o h' n
mother c ► b alt may live withyou, whileI
o
father will have a general ovet,ir"t
of your affairs; I shall send him a-.
line to that effect.
"Your Disappointed }Disband."
This was the letter, and there was
perfect silence while Katty read it
through, Mr. Cameron never taking
his eyes from her face, which turned
first• white, then red, then spotted,
and finally took a leaden hue as
Katy ran over the lines, comprehend-
ing the truth as she read, and when
the letter was finished, lifting iter
dry, tearless eyes to father Camer-
on, anti whispering to herself:
"Deserted!"
Slut lout him rend the letter, and
when he had finished, explained the
parts he did not understand, telling
him now what Morris had confessed
—telling him too that in her first
sorrow, when life and sense seemed
roofing, she had sent for 1)r, Grant,
knowing she could trust hint and be
right in doing whatever lie advised.
"Why did you say you sent for hint
—'that is. what wits the special rea-
son?" Mr. ('am'ron asked, and Katy
!old hint h,'t' belief that Genevra was
living—that it was she who made the
hi i'ltd troussrnit for Wilford's second
wife. site who nursed his child until
it died, giving to it her own nc•ne,
arraying it for the grave, and taen
le, ing before the father caste.
"1 notes told Wilford," Katy s: id.
"I felt as if 1 would rather he should
not know it yet. Pe. ha1 )s I was
wrong, but if so, I have been ter-
ribly punished."
Mu'. Cameron could not look upon
the woman who stood before him, so
helpless and stricken in her desola-
tion, and believe her wrong in any-
thing, The guilt lay in another di-
rection, and when, as the terrible
reality that she was indeed a desert -
e:1 wife came rushing over Katy, she
tottered toward him for help; ho
stretched his arms out for her, slid
taking the sinking figure in them,
laid it upon the sofa as gently, as
Shelly, as Wilford had ever touched
it in his most loving days.
Katy did not faint nor weep. She
was past all that; but her face was
like- a piece of marble, and 'her eyes
were like those of tine hunted fawn
when the chase is at its height, and
escape impossible.
"Wilford will come back, of
course," the father said, "but that
does not help us now. What the
plague—who is ringing that bell
enough to break the wire?" he added,
as a sharp, rapid ring echoed rthrough
the house, and was answered by Est-
her. "It's my wife," he continued,
and of her
caughttht:eo voice
as he
in the hall.
"You stay here while I meet her
first alone. I'll give it to her for
cheating me so long, and raising
thunder generally!"
Katy tried to protest, but lie Was
half way down the stairs, and in a
moment more was with his wife,'
who, impatient at his long delay,
had cometherself, armed anis equipped,.
to censure Katy as the cause of Wil -
ford's disappearance, tone to demand
of her what she had done. But the
lady who carne in so haughty and
5
very different per-
sonage
Want was a e
Y
indignant
from the lady who, after list-
ening for fifteen minutes to a fearful
storm of oaths and reproaches, min-
gling with startling truths and bitter
denunciations against herself and her
boy, sank into a chair, pale and
trembling, and overwhelmed with the
harvest she was reaping.
1her husband was
not
through
1 t ba
But g
t
with her yet. lie had reserved the
bitterest drop for the last, end Com-
ing close to her he said:
"And Who think you the woman is
—this Genevra, Wilford's and your
divorced wife? You Were too proud'
to acknowledge an apothecary's
daughter! See if you Iike better a
dressmaker, a nurse to Katy's baby,
Marian Ilazelton!"
lie whispered the last name; and
with at shriek, the lady fainted._ Mr.
Cameron would not summon a sere-
atlt' end as there was• no water in
the room,nn be walked
to the
window,
and lifting the sash scraped from the
sill a handful of the light spring
Hunte which had been failing since
morning. With this he brought his
Wife back toconsciousness, and
then
marked out her future course.
"I know What is in your mind," he
said: "people will talk about Wit -
ford's going off suddenly, anh you
would like to have all the blame rest
on Katy; but, madam, bear me: Juilt
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so sure as through your means one
breath of suspicion falls on her, I'll
lila-at out the whole story of Genev-
ra. Then see who is censured. On
the other hand, if you hold your
tongue, and make Juno hold hers,
and stick to Katy through thick and
thin, acting as if you would like to
swallow her whole, I'll say nothing
of this (lencvra. Is it a bargain?"
"Fes," carne faintly from the sofa
cushions, where 'Mrs. Cameron had
buried her face, sobbing in a con-
tused, frightened way, and af-
ter a few moments asking
to see Katy, whom she kissed
and caressed with unwonted tender-
ness, telling her Wilford would come
back, and adding, that in any event
no one could or should blame her.
"Wilford was wrong to deceive you
about Genevra. I was wrong to let
hien: hist. we will have no more con-
cealments. You think she is living
still—that she is Marian Hazelton?"
and
Mrs. Cameron smoothed Kat s
hail t
• is she talked, tryingbe
to
motherly and kind, while her heart
beat more 1)ainfully at thoughts of a
Genevra living, than it ever had at
thoughts of a Genevra dead.
Wilford's leaving home so suddenly
to join the army, could not fail, even
in New York, to cruise some excite-
ment, especially in his own immedi-
ate circle of acquaintance, and for
several days the matter was discuss-
ed in all its phases, and every pos-
sible opinion and conjecthre offered,
as to the cause of his strange freak,
They could not believe in domestic
troubles when they saw how his fam-
ily clung to and defended Katy front
the least approach of censure, Juno
te.king rip her abode with her "afflict-
ed sister," Mrs. Cameron driving
r•o.ind each day to see her: Bell al-
ways speaking of her with genuine
affection, while tiro father clung to
her like a hero. the quartette form-
ing a barrier across which the shafts
of scandal could not reach,
CHAPTER XYYIS.
When Wilford left Katy so abrupt-
ly, he had no definite purpose in his
mind, Like most angry people, s
forgot wherein he had been in fault,
but charged it all to Katy as he
went down Broadway that spring
morning, finding on his table a let-
ter from an old classmate, who was
then in Washington getting up it coin-
, patty, and who wrote urging his
1friend to join him at once, and ()ear-
ing hint the rank of First Ilout en-
.
t. Hereto tarion—hie rn
ant. wasate
.ttemp
-tat ,
i5.
op sot 1 toil y to revenge himself h t 1• .t
Ilit:ty, against whom he wrote a cad
' list of errors, making it sadder by
brooding over and magnifying' it
an -
til ho reached a point trtum whichhe
would not swerve.
"I shall do it," he said, and h!s
lips were pressed firmly together. as
in his private office he sat rev ols hug
the past, and then turning to thefu-
ture, opening so darkly before him,
and making - him shudder as he
thought of what it might bring. "I
will spare Katy
as much
as
)os-
sthle," he said, "for hers is a differ-
ent nature from Genevra's. Silo tan -
not bear as well," and a bitter
'Croon broke the .'"1•••••••. os room
,1s Katy ratite ' • ati
she had looker ;,:ug
Standing by the s. mt..- , with teats
in her eyes, and a fti.s,fol, sorry look
on her white face.
But Wilfot•d was not one to re.-
tract When a decision •'•ns reached,
'td se lie arranged his business mat-
t ers
tu-tels as Well as his !invited time
wouldallow;
then, n C . the e brief
note to his father, Wrote the letter
to Katy. and thi a I', lowed to the
Jersey ferry a mailmen of sald!'rs
Ube were going on t,, Bashi ngton
at, ni lits Foyle • I•
g mi d i Yy s more Haul
Lieutenant Wilford Cameron, with tar
regret as yt't for the past, marched
away to swell the roam of utem, who,
ssinsledby end'rtl McClellan, wet press -
ins
on, as they believed, to Rich-
mond and victory. A week of ter-
rible suspense went by, and then
there came a letter to Mr. Cameron
from. his son, requesting him to care
for Katy, but asking no forgiveness
for himself. There were no apologies,
no explanations, no kited words for
Katy, whose eyes moved slowly over
the short letter, and then were lifted
sadly to her father's face as she
said:
"1 will write to him myself, and
ort his answer will depend my future]
caurse-"
1ft•auwhile at Silverton there was
much anxiety for Katy, and many
doubts expressed lest something was
wrong. That Wilford should go.
away so suddenly, when he had never
}:emit noted for any very great
amount of patriotism, seemed strange
mud Uncle Ephraim at last made up
his mind to the herculean task of
going to New York to see what was
the matter:
Presuming upon her experience aei
a traveler, Aunt Betsy had proffered
5of advice with refer-
ence.
efer-
u d•• )id', a Ie t
sundry pieces t
. 1
• sfor him to
C ewhat it was best
(n e Coto
do on the road, telling him which
side of the car to sit, where to get
out, and above all things not to
shake hands with the conductor whet
asked for his ticket,
Uncle Ephraim heard her good -hum-
oredly, and stuffing into his pocket,
the paper of gingersnaps, fried cake:
and cheese, which Aunt ITamtglt had
prepared for his lunch, lie started foil
the ears, and was soon on his way
to New York. x
In his case there was no Bob Rem
olds to offer aid and comfort, and
the old man was nearly torn in
pieces by the haclanen, who, the mo-
ment he appeared to view, pounces
upon him as lawful prey, each claim-
ing the honor of taking him where
ever be wished to go, and raising
such a din he turned away thorough-
ly
horoughly disgusted, telling them—
"He had feet and legs, and corn
mon sense, and he guessed he could
find his way without 'eut. Bleeged td'
you, gentlemen, but I don't need
you," and with a profound bow the
honest looking old deacon walked
away, lashing the first than he inlet
d silo
Square, and the was to Madison o r fi q
(ceding in finding' the utunber with.
out di±faculty.
'tVith tt scrta m of joy Katy threw,
herself into Uncle Ephratim's antis
and then led hint to her own room
while the first tears she hod ,ih '
since she knew she was deserted rails
Cd "Wi411;7711
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• a's'rest
ed something was wrong. they h, -t
happened?" I'in,le Epin aim as'Aed
andwith 2s
arm
aro.
' her, Kitts -
(To be continued.)
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