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It was three days before Christ confidentially to Mrs Banker, whom she had asked to see the next time she should call

"I want soin a whisper, "and you have been so kind to us both that I thought it ht not trouble you very much if I asked you to ave me fifty dollars, all I needed, as I had fifty more of ain care to go out My darling baby, how small the whole world seelanced lovingly at the crib where slept the baby, worth htfully, as she rolled up the bills, "you wish et as heavy bracelets as I can find--for the hundred dollars"

"Yes," Katy replied, "I think that will please her, don't you?"

Mrs Banker knew Katy's fondness for jewelry, and knowing, too, that her girlhood was spent in comparative poverty, she could readily understand how she would gratify her taste when circumstances were favorable; but Helen was different, and she felt certain that the hundred dollars could be spent to better advantage and in a manner more satisfactory to her Still she hardly liked to interfere until Katy, observing her hesitancy, asked again if she did not think Helen would be pleased

"Yes, pleased with anything you choose to give her, but--excuse me, dear Mrs Cameron, if I speak as openly as if I were the mother of you both Bracelets are suitable for you who can have everything else, but is there not soood? Now, allowing est, I should say, buy her soo In Silverton her furs ell enough, but here, as the sister of Mrs Wilford Ca of better"

It was the first tiht needher only in the dim sickroom, the contrast between Helen and her and her husband's sisters had not struck her, or if it had, she gave the preference to Helen in her dark merino and linen collar, rather than to Juno in her silks and velvet; but she understood Mrs Banker at once, her cheeks reddening as there flashed upon her the reason why Wilford had never yet been in the street with Helen, notwithstanding that she had more than once requested it