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He looked fully at Katy now, but she was thinking of so else, and her next remark was to ask him, rather abruptly, how old he was

"Twenty-six last May," he answered, while Katy continued: "You are not old enough to be married yet Wilford Cameron is thirty"

"Where did you meet Wilford Cameron?" Morris asked, in some surprise, and then the story which Katy had not told, even to her sister, came out in full, and Morris tried to listen patiently while Katy explained how, on the very first day of the exarandest, proudest-looking irls some of them said was Mr Wilford Cameron, from New York, a very fastidious bachelor, whose fa six servants, and living in the finest style; that Mrs Woodhull, who all through the year had been very kind to Katy, came to her after school and invited her hoone, and met Mr Cameron; that she was very much afraid of him at first, and was not sure that she was quite over it now, although he was so polite to her all through the journey, taking soat her enthusiasm

"Wilford Cameron with you on your trip?" Morris asked, a new idea, dawning on his mind

"Yes; let ht, and then Mrs Woodhull took e, and then--well, I rode alone with him once down by the lake, and he talked to irl And when the term closed I stayed at Mrs Woodhull's, and he was there He liked uess he liked me--that is, you know--yes, he liked e of her shahile Morris, in spite of the pain tugging at his heart-strings, laughed aloud as he rejoined: "I have no doubt he did; but go on--what next?"

"He saidthat party than anybody, and I am very sure he paid the bills"

"Oh, Katy," and Morris started as if he had been stung "I would rather have given Linwood than have you thus indebted to Wilford Cameron or any other man"

"I could not well help it I did not mean any harm," Katy said, timidly, for at first she had shrunk froht, urging it on until she had consented, and so she said to Morris, explaining how kind Mr Cameron was, and how careful not to re to and anticipating every want as if she had been his sister