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"Pond lilies are athered last fall when at Silverton Do you remember them?" and his eyes rested upon Helen with a look that made her blush as she faintly answered "yes"; but she did not tell him of a little box at home, a box made of cones and acorns, and where was hidden a withered water lily, which she could not throay, even after its beauty and fragrance had departed

Had she told hi Mark sohiirl stealing his heart so fast

"I ht, and as just then Lieutenant Bob passed by,all the fair ones by the course he was taking, Mark said to Helen, who suggested returning to the parlor: "As you like, though it cannot ed is above Bob Reynolds' jokes"

Quick as thought the hot blood stained Helen's face and neck, for Mark hadher only the ied one referred to, not herself, and for a ay scene around her in the sharpness of the pang hich she recognized all that Mark Ray was to her

"It was kind in hiht, and then with a bitter feeling of shas, and who the betrothed one was "Not Juno Cameron," she hoped, as after a fewMark froroup of ladies and was ere long dancing ainst Helen's pink, and whose black eyes looked exultingly into Helen's face

"They are a well- a very confidential manner toward Helen, who assented to the re about Mark Ray He is a most unscrupulous flirt, pleased with every new face, and this of course annoys Juno"

"Are they engaged?" came faintly and involuntarily from Helen's lips, while Mrs Ca hesitancy, as she replied: "Oh, that was settled in our fao Wilford and Mark have always been like brothers"