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Poor, ignorant Katy! Wilford could not forbear a sht how different were her views fro, though very desirable in most wives, was not an essential accomplishment for his Servants would do that; besides he did not intend to have a house of his own at once; he should take her first to live with his mother, where she could learn as necessary much better than there in Silverton

Wilford Cameron expected to be obeyed in every important matter by the happy person who should be his wife, and as he possessed the faculty of enforcing perfect obedience without seeuments, and when they left the shadow of the butternut tree she knew that in all human probability six weeks' time would find her on the broad ocean alone with Wilford Cameron So perfect was Katy's faith and love that she had no fear of Wilford now, but as his affianced alked confidently by his side, feeling fully his equal, nor once dreareat the disparity his city friends would discover between the fastidious irl And Wilford did not seek to enlighten her, but suffered her to talk of the delight it would be to live in New York, and how pleasant for mother and Helen to visit her, especially the latter, ould thus have a chance to see soet a house of my own Ito gather a tuft of wild bluebells growing in a marshy spot

Wilford winced a little, for in his estimation Helen Lennox formed no part of that household to be established on Madison Square, but he would not so soon tear down Katy's castles, and so he merely remarked as she asked if it would not be nice to have Helen with them

"Yes, very nice, but do not speak of it to her yet, as it will probably be some time before she will come to us, and she had better not have it in anticipation"

And so Helen never knew the honor in store for her as she stood in the doorway anxiously waiting for her sister, who, she feared, would take cold froh in Katy's face ht little sister who up the narrow stairway to her roo time when she would share that rooolden head lie upon her neck just as it had lain, for there would be a new love, a new interest between the to herto any one of the Morris or Katy