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And where all the while was Morris? Were his patients so numerous that he could not find time to call upon his cousin? Katy had inquired for him immediately after her arrival, but in her exciteone and tea was over, when, just as she had done on the day of her return froua, she took her hat and started on the orn path toward Linwood She was not going there, she said, she only wanted to try the road and see if it had changed since she used to go that way to gather butternuts in the autuht plaid silk glea her co upon a little rustic seat, beneath a chestnut tree, where he once had sat with Katy, and extracted a cruel sliver fro the place to make it well as she told hiirl of twelve, and he enty, but the sight of her pure face lifted confidingly to his had stirred his heart as no other face had stirred it since,him look forward to a time when the hand he kissed would be his own, and his the fairy form he watched so carefully as it expanded day by day into the perfect wo of that time now, and how different it had all turned out, when he heard the bounding step and saw her co her hat in childish abandon, and warbling a song she had learned froerly forward; "I alad to see you It seems so nice to be with you once et up," she continued, as he started to rise

She was standing before him, a hand on either side of his face, into which she was looking quite as wistfully as he was regarding her So which troubled her; and thinking she knehat it was, she said to hilad to seeher down to the bench beside hiravely, so quietly, that Katy was not satisfied at all, and tears gathered in her eyes as she tried to think what it was ailed Morris