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Next to Dr Grant, Helen had , and it was very apparent now, for as if her presence had a power to soothe, Katy grew very quiet, and utterly wearied out, slept for a few moments with Helen's hand fast locked in hers When she awoke the tired look was gone, and turning to her sister, she said: "Have you seenmother love which broke so beautifully over her pale face, el

"It see the puny little thing, which with its wrinkled face and red, clinched fists was not very attractive to her, save as she looked at it with Katy's eyes

She did not even kiss it, but her tears dropped upon its head as she thought how short the ti dolls for the Katy as now aHelen fondly when she said good-night, and welcoain, telling her how just the sight of her sitting there by baby's crib did her so et well so fast," she said; and she was right, for Helen orth far more to her than all the physician's powders, and Wilford, when he sa she ilad that Helen came, even if she did so all his plans and theories with regard to Katy, andas it was new to him

To Mrs Cameron, Helen was also a study, she seeht think of her, evincing no hesitation, no timidity, when told one day, the second day after her arrival, that Mrs Banker was in the parlor and had asked to see Miss Lennox Mrs Cameron did not suspect how under that cal a heart which beat most painfully as she went down tofirst to her own roo that her dress was more like the dress of those around her--like Mrs Calance she gave to the brown silk, Wilford's gift, but her good sense told her that the plain merino she as far more suitable to the sickroom, where she spent her time, and so with a fresh collar and cuffs, and another brush of her rich hair, she went to Mrs Banker, forgetting herself in her pleasure at finding in the stranger a lady so wholly congenial and familiar, whose mild, dark eyes, so like Mark Ray's, rested so kindly on her, and whose pleasant voice had so her wholly at her ease, andher appear at her very best