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"Why then do you try to resist, when you kno useless it is?" Helen asked, and soht a sudden flush of shame to Katy's cheek, as she said: "What do you ?"

Helen did not stop to consider the propriety of her re that you ree, vainly hoping to escape into the freedo back bruised and bleeding with its efforts, and no nearer escape"

For a arded her sister intently, while she seeuely flashed upon her, tears gathered on her eyelashes and rolled down her cheeks, while with a quivering lip she asked: "If you were that bird, ould you do?"

"I? What would I do? I should beat s until I died; but your nature is different You are , more submissive You can bear it better"

This was not the first ti was the hich held Katy in its grasp, that Helen had thought how surely she, with her high, imperious spirit, should die, from the very resistance she should offer to that will But as she had truly expressed it, Katy's gentle, submissive nature saved her, for never had she offered so violent opposition to any plan as she did now to that of sending her child away

"I can't, I can't," she repeated constantly, and Mrs Cameron's call, made that afternoon with a view to reconcile the matter, only ht, felt a pang of self-reproach as he saw the drooping figure holding his child upon its lap and singing it a lullaby in a plaintive voice, which told how sore was its heart

Wilford did not e or a brute On the contrary he had ood of both ht of Katy touched hiiven up the contest had not Helen unfortunately taken up the cudgels in Katy's defense, neglecting to conceal the weapons, and so defeating her purpose It was at the dinner fro that the plan be given up, but speaking of it as an unnatural one which seemed to her not only useless but cruel