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"Of course he will not, for I shall ask Dr Morris to go after hie," Katy said, as out in the orchard where she was gathering the early harvest apples she read the letter brought her by Uncle Ephrai all over with happy blushes as she saw the dear affixed to her name

Katy had waited so anxiously for a letter, or sootten by Wilford Cameron, but as the weeks went by and it did not come, a shadow had fallen upon her spirits, and the fah and frolicsoiven to her should be so utterly distasteful She used to enjoy theo with Uncle Ephraim out into the fields where she could sit alone while he worked nearby, or to ride with Morris as she soood as she used to be, she thought, and with a view ofin Morris' and Helen's Sunday-school, greatly to the distress of Aunt Betsy, who groaned bitterly when both her nieces adopted the "Episcopal quirks," forsaking entirely the house where Sunday after Sunday her old-fashioned leghorn with its faded ribbon of green was seen, bending down in the hu in Sunday-school, taken by itself, could not make Katy better, and the old restlessness rerass beneath the apple tree, she read that Wilford Caed, and Katy never forgot the brightness of that day when the robins sang so merrily above her head and all nature seemed to sympathize with her joy Afterward there caony she wished that day had never been, but there was no shadow around her now, nothing but hopeful sunshine, and with a bounding step she sought out Helen, to tell her the good news Helen's first remark, however, was a chill upon her spirits

"Wilford Ca here? What will he think of us, we are so unlike him?"

This was the first time Katy had seriously considered the difference between her surroundings and those of Wilford Caht affect hi like Wilford's hoe, co her how "if he was any kind of a chap he wouldn't be looking round, and if he did, who cared; she guessed they was as good as he, and as hbors"