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Every muscle of Wilford's face quivered then, but he was too proud to show all that he felt, and he was glad when Helen appeared in the door, as that diverted his reeted herher s he had never done before But sorrow is a great softener and Wilford was very sorry, feeling his loss estive of death

"Where is Katy?" he asked

"She is sleeping for the first time since the baby died She is in here with the child She will stay nowhere else," Helen said, opening softly the door of the bedroo heart, Wilford stepped across the threshold and Helen closed the door, leaving hi and the dead Pure and beautiful as some fair blossoolden hair clustering about its head, and on its lips the smile which had settled there when it tried to say "mamma"--its dimpled hands folded upon its breast, where lay the cross of flohich Marian Hazelton had made--flowers upon its pillow, flowers around its head, flowers upon its shroud, flowers everywhere, and itself the fairest flower of all, Wilford thought as he stood gazing at it and then let his eye move on to where poor, tired, worn-out Katy had crept up so close beside it that her breath touched the marble cheek and her own disordered hair rested upon the pillow of her child Even in her sleep her tears kept dropping frorieved, touching way Hard indeed would Wilford have been had he cherished one bitter thought against the wife so wounded He could not when he saw her, but no one ever knew just what passed through histhe half hour he sat there beside her, scarcely stirring and not daring to kiss his child lest he should awaken her He could hear the ticking of his watch and the beating of his heart as he waited for the first sound which should herald Katy's waking

Suddenly there was a low, gasping moan, and Katy's eyes unclosed and rested on her husband He was bending over her in an instant, and her arms were around his neck, while she said to him so sadly: "Our baby is dead--you've nobody left butbaby here? I did not think she would die I'd giveher back Say, Wilford, would you rather it wasas baby lies, and she here in your arms?"