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Marian orking at her trade, and never came to the hotel except one day when Wilford was in New York, but that day sufficed for Katy to know that after herself it was Marian whom baby loved the best--Marian, who cared for it even lad to have it so, especially after Wilford and his mother decided that she must leave the child in New London while she made the visit to Silverton

Wilford did not like her taking so rown too heavy for her to lift; it was better with Mrs Hubbell, he said, and so to the in

They were bitterly disappointed, for Katy's baby had been anticipated quite asfrom the woodshed chamber a cradle which nearly forty years before had rocked the deacon's only child, the little boy, who died just as he had learned to lisp his mother's name As ait sorew too old for that, when it was put away beneath the eaves whence Aunt Betsy dragged it, scouring it with soap and sand, until it hite as snow But it would not be needed, and with a sigh the old lady carried it back, thinking "things had come to a pretty pass when a woht was too weakly to take care of her child," and feeling a very little awe of Katy who rown so fine a lady

But all this passed away as the time drew near when Katy was to co when Whitey was eating his oats, and the carriage stood on the greensward The sky above and the earth beneath wereKaty, but Helen's face was not as bright, or her steps as buoyant She could not forget as there one year ago, and all theat her heart as she reloomy silence which Mark Ray had iment left New York, followed by so many prayers and tears He had returned, she knew, but neither froe for her, while Bell Cameron, rote to her occasionally, had spoken of his attentions to Juno as beco more pointed than ever