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It was arranged that Mark should ride to the cars with Uncle Ephraiood two hours of leisure, he spoke of Dr Grant, asking Helen if she did not suppose he would call around Helen thought it possible, and then re, she excused herself fro to the platform out by the back door, where it was shady and cool, she tied on a broad check apron, and rolling her sleeves above her elboas just bringing the churn-dasher to bear vigorously upon the thick creaar, Mark went out into the yard, and following the winding path came suddenly upon her Helen's first i of herself she kept on while Mark, co as near as he dared, said to her: "Why do you do that? Is there no one else?"

"No," Helen answered; "that is, we keep no servant, and er than the others"

"And ly rejoined, as he put Helen aside and plied the dasher himself, in spite of her protestations that he would certainly ruin his clothes

"Tie that apron around me, then," he said, with the ut her check apron around the young man's neck, who felt her hands as they touched his hair and knew that they were brushing queer fancies into his brain, fancies which made him wonder what his mother would think of Helen, or what she would say if she knew just hoas occupied thatcream until it turned to butter, for Mark persisted until the task was done, standing by while Helen gathered up the golden lu her plump, round arms quite as much as he had done her neck

She would be a belle like her sister, though of a different staain bent down his head while she re spot upon his broadcloth Mark assured her that it did not matter; his coat was nearly worn out; and anyway he never should regret that he had churned once in his life, or forget it either; and then he asked if Helen would be in New York the co of the pleasure it would be to an to feel what she never before had felt, a desire to visit Katy in her own home