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"I think your baby will die," he had said to her very gently, pausing a moment in awe of the white face, whose expression terrified and shocked hi her head upon her hands, poor Katy whispered sadly: "God must not take my baby Oh, Morris, please pray that he will not He will hear and answer you, while I have been so bad I cannot pray But I' I will begin a new life I will try to serve him Dear Lord, hear and answer, and not let baby die"

She was praying herself now, and Morris' broad chest heaved as he glanced at her kneeling figure, and then at the death-like face upon the pilloith the pinched look about the nose and lips, which to his practiced eye was a harbinger of death

"Its father should be here," he thought, and when Katy lifted up her head again he asked if she was sure her husband had not yet returned from Minnesota

"Yes, sure--that is, I think he has not," was Katy's answer, a chill creeping over her at the thought of hter dead

"I shall telegraph in theat all events," Morris continued, "and if he is not in New York, it will be forwarded"

"Yes, that will be best," was the reply, spoken soto reason with her

But Katy would not listen, only answering to him that he did not know, he could not feel, he never had been tried

"Perhaps not," Morris said; "but Heaven isup ly; but God does not give us our choice He knohat is best, and baby is better with Him than us"

For a moment Katy was silent, then, as a new idea took possession of herhis arm, demanded: "Can an unbaptized child be saved?"

"We nowhere read that baptis ordinance," was Morris' anshile Katy continued: "But do you believe they will be saved?"

"Yes, I do," was the decided response, which, however, did not ease Katy's mind, and she moaned on: "A child of heathen parents ive the child to God, and for a foolish fancy withheld the gift until it is too late, and God will take it without the mark upon its forehead, the water on its brow Oh, baby, baby, if she should be lost--no nan"