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"It's Will and the Ca Helen less than he would have done, if he, too, had not known so of the Cameron pride

It was a novel position in which Mark found hiht; an inmate of a hu with his hand, and where his surroundings were so different from what he had been accustomed to; but, unlike Wilford Canant at Aunt Betsy's odd, old-fashioned ways, or Uncle Ephrairammar He noticed Aunt Betsy's oddities, it is true, and noticed Uncle Ephrai there, with so nity and self-respect, ht into her open face and clear brown eyes, where there was nothing obnoxious or distasteful Her gra a little stiffness, ladylike and refined; and Mark rather enjoyed his situation as self-invited guest, ot his hour of retiring, nor discovered his mistake until, with a loud yawn, Aunt Betsy told him that it was half-past nine, and she was "desput sleepy"

Owing to Helen's influence there had been a change of the olden custoh which Uncle Ephrai Psal, which she mentally classed with the "quirks," but confessed to herself that it "was ood as the Bible"

As there were only Prayer Books enough for the fa theht not care to join them But he did, and when the verse came around to Helen he quickly drew his chair near to hers, and taking one side of her book, perforrew red as the blossoms in her hair, and her hand so near to Mark's treht nice chap, and not an atom stuck up," was Aunt Betsy's mental comment, and then, as he often will do, Satan followed the saintly wo her wonder if "Mr Ray hadn't some notion after Helen" She hoped not, for she h if 'twas to be it was, and she should not go agin' it;" and while Aunt Betsy thus settled the case, Uncle Ephraim's prayer ended, and the conscience-smitten woman arose froot the better of her once," hts, and pro to do better