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Wilford Caet Katy Lennox, while his et, or at least sicken of her; and as the three, Juno, Bell and the mother, were very differently constituted, they had widely different ways of assisting hiood sense in drawing back fro hi the idea of Wilford'stoo preposterous to be contemplated for a moment, much less to be talked about; while Juno spared neither ridicule nor sarcas the former weapon so effectually that her brother at one time nearly went over to the enemy; and Katy's tears, shed so often when no one could see her, were not without a reason Wilford was trying to forget her, both for his sake and her own, for he foresaw that she could not be happy with his fa to her, transplanting her into a soil so wholly unlike that in which her habits and affections had taken root

His father once had abruptly asked him if there was any truth in the report that he was about to marry and make a fool of himself, and when Wilford had answered "No," he had replied with a significant: "Uh, I should think, if you ever intend to marry Wilford," and the old irl, except what I gathered from your mother and sisters You have not asked my advice I don't suppose you want it, but if you do, here it is If you love the girl and she is respectable, hter of a tinker; but if you don't love her, and she's rich as a nabob, for thunder's sake keep away from her"

This was the elder Cameron's counsel, and Katy's cause arose fifty per cent, in consequence Still Wilford was sadly disquieted, so much so that his partner, Mark Ray, could not fail to observe that so him, and at last frankly asked what it was Wilford knew he could trust Mark, and he confessed the whole, telling him farwhat his friend would do were the case his own

Fond of fun and frolic, Mark laughed i her "herrin' bone" patchwork into the parlor, and telling him it was a part of Katy's "settin' out," but when it came to her hint for an invitation to visit in New York, the a so ht live to see the day when poor Aunt Betsy Barlow stood ringing for admittance at No ---- Fifth Avenue