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"It may save her life She isfor her sister ear her out so fast," she added, and that last argu in the parlor for the co of Mrs Cameron Wilford did not mean Katy to hear him as he whispered to his mother that Helen was below; but she did, and her blue eyes flashed brightly as she started frolad Kiss lad Does she know? Have you told her? Wasn't she surprised, and will she come up quick?"

They could not quiet her at once, and only the assurance that unless she were ht had any effect upon her; but when they told her that, she lay back upon her pillow sub fro "Helen" Then the sister love took another channel, and she said: "She has not been to supper, and Phillips is always cross at extras Will somebody see to it? Send Esther to ood-natured"

"Mother will do all that is necessary She is going down," Wilford said; but Katy had quite asHelen to "mother" as to Phillips, and insisted upon Esther until the latter ca numerous injunctions as to the jam, the sweetmeats, the peaches and the cold ha reht nothing of herself or the effort it cost her thus to care for Helen, but when it was over and Esther had gone, she seemed so utterly exhausted that Mrs Cameron did not leave her, but stayed at her bedside, one, and her eyes were more natural Meanwhile the supper, which as Katy feared had ed by Esther, who conducted Helen to the dining-roo upon her because the one whose duty it was had gone out for the evening, and Phillips had declined the "honor," as she styled it

There was a ho at Helen's heart, while she tried to eat, and only the certainty that Katy was not far away kept her tears back To her the very grandeur of the house lad it was Katy who lived there and not herself as she went up the soft carpeted stairhich gave back no sound, and through the marble hall to the parlor, where by the table on which her cloak and furs were still lying, a lady stood, as dignified and unconscious as if she had not been inspecting the self-sa it did not matter, for it did matter very materially with her, and a smile of contempt had curled her lip as she turned over the tippet which even Phillips would not have worn