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"Why did you invite hiuests enough Oh, if Wilford Cameron had only never come, we should have had Katy now," and the sister-love overca Helen cry bitterly as they drove back to the farmhouse

Morris could not comfort her then, for he needed it the most, and so in silence he left her and went on his way to Linwood, which see away all Morris' life and love, and leaving only a cheerless blank It ell for hi to theot himself in part so that the day with him passed faster than at the farmhouse, where life and its interests see had power to rouse Helen, who never realized howheart she listlessly put to rights the roo, but which was now hers alone It was a sad task picking up that disordered cha so many traces of Katy, and Helen's heart ached terribly as she hung away the little pink calico dressing gown in which Katy had looked so pretty, and picked up fro just where they had been left the previous night; but when it came to the little half-worn slippers which had been thrown one here and another there as Katy danced out of the in her work sobbed bitterly: "Oh, Katy, Katy, how can I live without you?" But tears could not bring Katy back, and knowing this, Helen dried her eyes ere long and joined the family beloho like herself were spiritless and sad

It was some little solace to the, she is at Worcester, or Fraham, or Nen, and when at noon they sat down to their dinner in the tidy kitchen, they said: "She is in Boston," and the saying soseeed, and at last, before the sunsetting, Helen, who could bear the loneliness of ho in Morris' corief in part But Morris was a sorry comforter then If the day had been sad to Helen, it had been doubly so to hi to their co patiently their inquiries; but a except the words: "I, Katy, take thee, Wilford, to be ure which stood up on tiptoe for hi His work for the day was over now, and he sat alone in his library when Helen ca if he was ill