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"I should s'pose hecar, which now seemed almost like home "Coats, and trousers, and jackets! I wonder if there is nothing else to be seen here," she continued, as her eye caught the long line of clothing so conspicuously displayed in that part of the Bowery "'Tain't no great shakes," was the feeling struggling into Aunt Betsy's mind, as with Tom's outlinethe right one at last, and ringing the bell with a force which brought Mattie at once to the rescue

If Mattie was not glad to see her guest, she seemed to be, which answered every purpose for the tired woman, who followed her into the dark, narrow hall, filled with the sickly odor of the kitchen, and up the narrow stairs, through a still darker hall, and into the front parlor, which looked out upon the Bowery This was comparatively comfortable, for there was a fire in the stove, and the carpet the same which Aunt Betsy remembered to have seen in Mrs Tubbs' best room at Silverton But the diminutive dimensions of the apartment struck her at once, and she mentally decided that it must be the "libry" But, alas! the so-called "library" was a large-sized closet, or single rooatherum_ for the various articles Mrs Tubbs found necessary for her "back parlor," or dining-room, where the table was set cornerwise, its soiled linen and dingy napkins presenting a striking contrast to the snowy cloth which always covered the table at the farmhouse, while the dry, baker's bread, and the frowsy butter were alry as she was

But all this was half an hour after the tienuine pleasure at seeing her there, and feeling what she said; for Mrs Tubbs did not take kindly to city life, and the sight of a faht the country with it, was very welcome to her Mattie, on the contrary, liked New York, and there was scarcely a street where she had not been, with Tom for a protector; while she was perfectly conversant with all the respectable places of arades of patrons She knehere Wilford Cameron's office was, and also his house, for she had walked by the latterher eyes upon the glirandeur, which she occasionally obtained as some one came out or went in Once she had seen Helen and Katy enter their carriage, which the colored coachman drove away, but she had never ventured to accost them Katy would not have known her if she had, for the faua, and as, after her return to Silverton, until her e, Mattie had been in one of the Lawrence factories, they had neveracquaintance; but she had never presu friends she had told how she once sat in the same peith Mrs Wilford Ca," and the consideration which this fact procured for her from those who had heard of Mrs Wilford Cameron, of Madison Square, awoke in her the aain an entrance to her dwelling To this end she favored Aunt Betsy's visit, hoping thus to accomplish her object, for, of course, when Miss Barloent to Mrs Cao with her and point the way This was the secret of Mattie's letter to Aunt Betsy, and the warmth hich she welco store, and so se Aunt Betsy wondered where they all slept, never drea of the e a handso-room, and _vice versa_, with little or no trouble But she found it out at last, lifting her hands in speechless ained the parlor bookcase was converted into a coht in New York was passed in comfort if not in perfect quiet