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"Yes, darling, a great deal more," was Wilford's answer, as he kissed her upturned face, and then went for the last tirave; for on the hborhood of Alnwick for the heather blooh, a store across the Straits of Dover, a two months' sojourn in Paris, and then they went to Ro in the spring through different parts of Europe He was in no haste to return to America; he would rather stay where he could have Katy all to himself, away from her fa after his arrival at Ro hi him to come home at once The elder Cameron had not been well since Wilford left the country, and the physician was fearful that the disease had assu that her husband's only anxiety was to see his son again To this there was no demur, and about the first of December, six months fro taken a stearaph for news of his father, receiving a reply that he was better; the alarreat hope of his recovery

"Wea little chill of disappoint called ho, when her life abroad was so happy and free from care

Somehow the atmosphere of America seemed different from what it used to be It was colder, bluer, the little lady said, tapping her foot uneasily and looking froh which the wintry as blowing in heavy gales

"Yes, it is a heap colder," she sighed, as she returned to the large chair which Esther had drawn for her before the cheerful fire, charging her disquiet to the weather once, never drea it to her husband, as far lad of his father's i to a country which brought his old life back again, with all its for his dread lest Katy should not acquit herself as was beco Mrs Wilford Cameron In his selfishness he had kept her almost wholly to himself, so that the polish she was to acquire from her travels abroad was not as perceptible as, now that he looked at her with his family's eyes, he could desire Katy was Katy still, in spite of London, Paris, or Rome To be sure there was about her a little more maturity and self-assurance, but in all essential points she was the saht how the free, i the Scottish hills, where there was no one to criticise, had been so char to him, would shock his lady mother and Sister Juno And this it hichhastily to Katy when she said to hiraph to Helen to be with mother at the West depot e pass there to-morrow The train stops five minutes, you know, and I want to see them so much Will you, Wilford?"