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They were very civil to hily so--inso her anxiety that all should be settled this ti hi- him resolve to remove Katy as soon as possible fro with his mother he had said that if Katy had told him "yes," he should probably place her at some fashionable school for a year or two; but on the way to Silverton he had changed his mind He could not wait a year, and if he married Katy at all, it should he immediately He would then take her to Europe, where she could have the best of teachers, besides the advantage of traveling; and it was a very satisfactory picture he drew of the woman whom he should introduce into New York society as his wife, Mrs Wilford Cameron It is true that Katy had not yet said the all-i to say it, and when late that afternoon they came up from the walk he had asked her to take, she was his proether on the very rock where Katy sat that day when Uncle Ephraih life, sorief Katy had never forgotten the conversation, and, without knohy, she had always avoided that rock beneath the butternut as a place where there had been revealed to her a gli there, she at first objected, but yielded at last, and, with his arm around her, listened to the story of his love It hat she had expected and thought herself prepared for, but when it came it was so real, so earnest, that she could only clasp her hands over her face, which she hid on Wilford's shoulder, weeping passionately as she thought how strange it was for a man like Wilford Cameron to seek her for his wife Katy was no coquette; whatever she felt she expressed, and when she could command herself she frankly confessed to Wilford her love for hiotten her had haunted her all the long, long winter; and then with her clear, truthful blue eyes looking into his, asking hie if, as he said, he loved her all the time

For a moment Wilford's lip was co her closer to him, he replied: "My little Katy will remember that in my first note I spoke of certain circu earlier I do not know that I asked her not to seek to know those circumstances; but I ask it now Will Katy trust ht between us, and never allude to these circumstances?"