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"Pure, loving, innocent, and unsuspecting," was Marian Hazelton's verdict, and she folloistfully every irl as she flitted around the roo as fa known instead of an entire stranger

"You look very young to beback her short rings of hair Katy answered: "Eighteen next Fourth of July; but Mr Cameron is thirty"

"Is he a er?" was the next question, which Katy answered with a h "Mercy, no! I marry a er! How funny! I don't believe he ever cared a fig for anybody but me I htly together, while a resentful gleam shot for a moment across Marian's face; but it quickly passed away, and her sood-night and repaired to the little roo ti her dark, abundant hair, and intently regarding her own features, while in her eyes there was a hard, terrible look, from which Katy Lennox would have shrunk abashed But that too passed, and the eyes grew soft with tears as she turned away, and falling on her knees moaned sadly: "I never will--no, I never will, God help ht, for she could bear it; but Katy, that child---no, I never will," and as the words died on her lips there ca up from her heart a prayer for Katy Lennox's happiness, as fervent and sincere as any which had ever beeneach other rapidly, Marian and Katy, the latter of whoreatly out of place as a dress her Marian altogether, and questioning her very closely of her previous life But Marian only told her that she was born in London; that she learned her trade on the Isle of Wight, near to the Osborne House, where the royal family sometimes ca to divert Katy'swhat there was besides that apprenticeship to the Misses True on the Isle of Wight Once, indeed, she went further, learning that Marian's friends were dead; that she had co better than she could at hoan to fail, and then had tried what country air would do, co woman orked in the same shop was acquainted there, and recommended the place This was all Katy could learn, and Marian's heart history, if she had one, was guarded carefully One day as they sat together alone, when Helen had gone to the village to do so for Katy, Marian abruptly said: "I have lived in New York, you know, and why do you not ask if I ever saw these Camerons?"