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The last days of June had coe Katy froed by Mark Ray's re as well as when he first saw her, one year ago, "She had grown thin and pale," he said "Had Wilford remarked it?"

Wilford had not She complained much of headache; but that was only natural Still he wrote to the Mountain House that afternoon to secure rooms for himself and wife, and then at an earlier hour than usual went ho, Esther said, and had not yet returned, adding: "There is a note for her upstairs, left by a wo the house, until I took her over it, showing her every rooe woman went over my house in Mrs Cameron's absence! Who was it?" Wilford asked, hastily, visions of Helen, or possibly Aunt Betsy, rising before his mind

"She said she was a friend of Mrs Cameron, and that she knew she would allow the liberty," Esther replied, thus confir Wilford in his suspicions that some country acquaintance had thrust herself upon the, he took it up and exa it up to the light full ato open it in his perplexity and the train of thought it awakened

"They are singularly alike," he said, and still holding the note in his hand he went downstairs to the library, and opening a drawer of his writing desk, which was always kept locked, he took from it a picture and a bit of soiled paper, on which ritten: "I a you have done to me"

There was no name or date, but Wilford needed neither, for he knehose hand had penned those lines, and he sat looking at the thee wo returned to New York, and wishing employment either as seamstress or dressmaker, Marian Hazelton had ventured to call upon Mrs Caive her work if she should desire it The note concluded by saying: "I a over the house It was a terant you may be happy in it You see I have alsopardon, "Yours truly, MARIAN HAZELTON, "No ---- Fourth St, 4th floor, NY"