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But if Wilford had told hiatory of the farmhouse or its inmates, it did not appear in Mr Ray's manner, as he replied that Mr Cameron had been very busy ever since his return frohborhood therethere, and I had last fall half acomical in the eyes turned so mischievously upon Wilford, who colored scarlet for an instant, but soon recovered his composure, and invited Morris home with him to dinner

"I shall not take a refusal," he said, as Morris began to decline "Mother and the young ladies will be delighted to see you again, while Jamie--well, Jamie, I believe, worships the memory of the physician as so kind to hiood, Dr Grant, and you o with us, of course"

There was so so hearty in Wilford's invitation that Morris did not again object, and two hours later found hi the friendly greetings of Mrs Cahter, each of whom vied with the other in their polite attentions to him, while little Jamie, to whose nursery he was ad his curly head upon his shoulder, cried quietly, whispering as he did so: "I aht I never should, but I've not forgotten the prayer you taught me, and I say it often when my back aches so I cannot sleep and there's no one around to hear but Jesus I love Him now, if he did make me lame, and I know that He loves ain after ret the ti hi fruit Nor did he regret having accepted Wilford's invitation to dinner, as by this h been little Katy Lennox's She would be sadly out of place here with these people, he thought, as he looked upon all their formality and ceremony and then contrasted it hat Katy had been accustoht, was his nextlady, dressed in the extre her coquetries between hi every way desirable both in point of family and wealth, was evidently her favorite She had colored scarlet when first presented to Dr Grant, and her voice had trembled as she took his offered hand, for she re had not been concealed, and was only withdrawn at the last because she found how useless it was to waste her affections upon one who did not prize them