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"But Silverton will never know it," the teirls in full dress"

This decided it, and Aunt Betsy generously offered "to pay the fiddler," as she teret to Silverton that Betsy Barloas seen inside a playhouse!" To Mrs Tubbs it seemed impossible that Aunt Betsy could be in earnest, but when she was, she put no i the crowd of transient visitors who that night entered the Academy of Music was Aunt Betsy Barlow, chaperoned by Miss Mattie Tubbs and protected by Torown youth of seventeen, who passed for some years older, and consequently was a sufficient escort for the ladies under his charge It was not his first visit there and he ood view of several private boxes, and a them that of Wilford Cameron This Mattie, who remembered where she had seen both Helen and Katy, pointed out to the excited wo about her in aher own identity with the Betsy Barloho, six weeks before, if charged with such a sin as she was now co to do this thing?" Yet here she was, a deacon's sister, a candidate for the vice-presidency of the Silverton Sewing Society, a woman who, for sixty-three years and a-half, had led a bla herself for a burning light to others--here she was in her black silk dress, her best shawl pinned across her chest, and her bonnet tied in a square bohich reached nearly to her ears, which Mattie Tubbs, who tied it, had said was all the style Here she was, in that huge building, where the lights were so blinding and the crowd so great that she shut her eyes involuntarily, while she tried to realize what she could be doing

"I'ood Father forgive me," she said softly to herself, just as the orchestra struck up, thrilling her with its ravishing strains, and ht

She was very fond oftio up and down until the play coe effect for the first time in her life This part she did not like: "they mumbled their words so nobody could understand ht, and she was beginning to yahen a nudge from Mattie and a whisper, "There they co up she saw both Helen and Katy entering their box, and with them Mark Ray and Wilford Cameron