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Helen could not tell her he would be ashaush of tears she gave the project up entirely, telling Helen all she did not already know of her trip to New York, her visit to the opera, her staying with the Tubbses and herchap she ever saw, not even excepting Morris "If he was my own son, he couldn't be kinder," she added, "and I mistrust he hopes to be my nephew You can't do better, and if he offers, take him"

Helen's cheeks were crimson as she waived this part of the conversation and wished aloud that she had coe, as she could thus have taken Aunt Betsy over the city before the train would leave

"Mark spoke of that when he heard I was going to-day," Aunt Betsy said; "I'll warrant you he'll tend to it"

Aunt Betsy was right, for when Mark and his uests and learned that Aunt Betsy's intention was unchanged, he suggested the ride and offered the use of their carriage Helen did not decline the offer, and ere half an hour had passed, Aunt Betsy, with her satchel, umbrella and capbox, was coe with Helen beside her, while Mark bade his coach care to reach the train in tiave to her kind friends as she was driven away, going first to the Bowery to say good-by and leave the packages of fruits and herbs, lest the Tubbses should "think her suddenly stuck up"

"Would you htily," Aunt Betsy whispered, as they were alighting in front of Mr Peter Tubbs'; and as the result of this suggestion the carriage, when again it eed into Broadway, held Mattie Tubbs, happier, prouder than she had been in all her life before, while the gratified mother at home felt amply repaid for all the trouble her visitor hadMattie a little insipid and tireso happy in the consciousness that she wasdrive they took, and Aunt Betsy saw so lad when they started for the depot, taking Madison Square on the way and passing Katy's house

"I dare say it is all grand and s out to look at it, "but I feel best at hum where they are used to me"