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A suust day, when the early rareripes by the ere turning their red cheeks to the sun, and the flowers in the garden were lifting their heads proudly and nodding to each other as if they knew the secret which ht above all others Old Whitey, by the hitching post, wasoccasionally at the covered buggy standing on the greensward, fresh and clean as water fro upon a rock, where Katy used to feed the sheep with salt, and the whip standing upright in its socket, all waiting for the deacon, donning his best suit of clothes, even to a stiff shirt collar which al with anticipations which he kneould be realized Katy was really co home, and in proof thereof there were behind the house and barn piles of rubbish, lath and plaster, moldy paper and broken bricks, the tokens and re a ti its inmates nearly distracted, except when they re clouds of li their dress skirts on sundry nails projecting fro the while if the one

As a condition on which Katy ht be permitted to come home, Wilford had stipulated an i to bear the expense even to the furnishing of the roo Wilford's dictatorial h for his wife, Mrs Katy Ca Wilford's feelings better than the others could do, and urging a coet Katy home," she said, and so the chimney was torn away, a as put here and an addition made there, until the house was really ie airy bedroo-rooned to co a feeeks, to superintend the work and suggest how it should be done

The furniture, too, which he sent on froant like Katy's, but well adapted to the rooms it was to adorn, and suitable in every respect Helen enjoyed the settling verywhich was theconfessed in a general kind of way at a sewing society that she did go to a playhouse, and was not so very sorry either, except as the exa to fear from New York, and was proportionately happy At least she would have been if Morris had not see no pleasure at Katy's expected visit He had been polite to Wilford, had kept hi hiht hirave he had beco to care to talk unless it were about his profession or on soed The wound which in rown deeper with each succeeding year, while froe was a sadsometimes that he had spoken, and so perhaps have saved her from the life in which she could not be wholly free "She would be happier with me," he had said, with a sad ss which she had not reat tears in Morris' eyes, tears of which he was not ashamed when Helen spoke of Katy's distress, and the look which crept into her face when baby was taken away When Morris first heard of the baby he had hoped he ht love Katy less; that she would seeirl, but she did not, and there were ti alone at Linwood, felt that his grief was too great to bear But the deep, dark waters were always forded safely, and Morris' faith in God prevailed, so that only a dull, heavy pain remained, with the consciousness that it was no sin to reed to see her, and yet how he had dreaded it, lest poor weak huht But she was co ho eagerly for the tierness, so that not even Helen suspected how impatient he was for the day of her return Four weeks she had been at the Pequot House in New London, occupying a little cottage and luxuriating in the joy of having her child with her alht wonders in the baby, which had grown so beautiful and bright that it was no longer in Wilford's way save as it took too ay crowd at the hotel