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There was no baggage in the hall, there had been no worowing strong again about the ti toward his door was sufficient toand every hair prickle at its roots

But Aunt Betsy did not come except in Wilford's drea found him tired, moody, and cross That day they entertained a select dinner party, and as this was so in which Katy rather excelled, while Helen's presence, instead of detracting froreatly to the _éclat_ of the affair, Wilford had anticipated it with no sree of complacency But now, alas! there was a phantouise; and if it had been possible he would have given the dinner up But it was too late for that; the guests were bidden, the arrange now for him but to abide the consequences

"She shall at least stay in her rooht, as he went down to his office without even kissing Katy or bidding her good-by

But business that day had no interest for hi the passers-by and glancing at his door as if he expected the first assault to be made there Then as the day wore on, and he felt sure that what he so e expected last night had certainly arrived by this time and spread itself over his house, he could endure the suspense no longer, and startled Mark with the announceain that day

"Going home, when Leavitt is to call at three!" Mark said, inthat it would be a relief to unburden himself to some one, the story came out how Wilford had seen Aunt Betsy at the opera, and expected to find her at Madison Square

"I wish I had answered her letter about that confounded sheep pasture," he said, "for I would rather give a thousand dollars--yes, ten thousand--than have her with us to-day I did not , as Mark looked quickly up, "Of course I don't h she rasps me a little, I'd rather have her than not Neither do I entle sweat just to think of it"