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"Who is she?" was asked by ed her claiht her acquaintance, so that Helen suddenly found herself the center of a little court of which she was the queen and Mark her sworn knight

Presuht of attending her, and Juno's glory waned quite as effectually as it had done when Katy was the leading star to which New York paid hoe

Juno had been annoyed then, but now fierce jealousy took possession of her heart as she watched the girl who a thrill of pride that the possession of so attractive a sister-in-law reflected credit upon himself

He was not ashaht of the farmhouse or Uncle Ephraily at her left, just as Mark was standing at her right, and at last asking her to dance

With a heightened color Helen declined, saying frankly: "I have never learned"

"Youto Mark for a confirmation of his words

But Mark did not heartily respond He, too, had solicited Helen as a partner when the dancing first commenced, and her quiet refusal had disappointed hieneral thing he disapproved of waltzes and polkas when he was the looker-on, he felt that there would be so Helen in his ar whirled by a young cadet, a friend of Lieutenant Bob's But when he reflected that not his arm alone would encircle her waist, or his breath touch her snowy neck, he was glad she did not dance, and professing a weariness he did not feel, he declined to join the dancers on the floor, but kept with Helen, enjoying what she enjoyed, and putting her so perfectly at her ease that no one would ever have dreamed of the curdy cheeses she had ht of it as he secretly admired the neck and arms seen once before on that memorable day when he assisted Helen in the labors of the dairy If nothing else had done so, the lily in her hair would have brought thatto his mind, and once as they walked up and down the hall he spoke of the ornament she had chosen, and hoell it became her