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"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these--it ht of these lines, but they only mocked his sorrow as he answered Helen: "I doubt if you are right; I hope you are not; hope that it ht not have been, as it is not now Katy lovedmore, I am confident Had she waited till she was older, God only knohat one and our Father will help me to bear, will help us both, if we ask him, as we must"

And then as only he could do, Morris talked with Helen until she felt her hardness toward Wilford giving hile she wondered how Morris could speak thus kindly of one as his rival

"Not of myself could I do it," Morris said; "but I trust in One who says: 'As thy day shall thy strength be,' and He, you know, never fails"

There was a fresh bond of sympathy noeen Morris and Helen, and the latter needed no caution against repeating what she had discovered The secret was safe with her, and by dwelling on what "ot to think so much of as, and so the first days after Katy's departure were ht it possible for them to be At the close of the fourth there came a short note from Katy, as still in Boston at the Revere, and perfectly happy, she said, going into ecstasies over her husband, the best in the world, and certainty the s as I a made," she wrote, "when I already had more than I needed, and so I told him, but he only smiled a queer kind of smile as he said: 'Very true; you do not need theot to tell you how much I liked his cousin, Mrs Harvey, who boards at the Revere, and whom Wilford consults about rand, but she pets hs at my speeches Mr Ray is here too, and I think him splendid

"By the way, Helen, I heard him tell Wilford that you had one of the best shaped heads he ever saw, and that he thought you decidedly good looking Iwhich troubles et used to that, I suppose It is so strange Wilford never toldmaid, who jabbers French half the ti been abroad with the family once before That is why they sent her to me; they knew her services would be invaluable in Paris Her naht me such a beautiful mantilla from Wilford's mother, and the loveliest dress Just the pattern was fifty dollars, she said