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"No, Katy," Wilford answered, and by his voice Katy knew that she holly forgiven, crying on his neck in a plaintive, piteous hile Wilford soothed and pitied and caressed, feeling subdued and huenerous he was to be thus forbearing, when but for Katy's act of disobedience they ust of tears Bell Cameron bent over the little for eht have said was prevented by the arrival of the coffin and the confusion which followed

Much Wilford regretted that New York was so far away, for a city coffin was ht, for a child of his, than the one which Dr Grant had ordered But that was really of less consequence than the question where should the child be buried? A costly monument at Greenas in accordance with his ideas, but all things indicated a contemplated burial there in the country churchyard, and sorely perplexed he called on Bell as the only Cameron at hand, to knohat he should do

"Do just as Katy prefers," was Bell's reply, as she led him to the coffin and pointed to the naed nine months and twenty days"

"What is it, Wilford--what is the matter?" she asked, as her brother turned whiter than his child, and struck his hand upon his head as if a blow had fallen there

Had "Genevra Laed twenty-two," met his eye, he could not have been , he said to Morris, who came near: "The child was baptized then?"

"Yes, baptized Genevra That was Katy's choice, I understand," Morris replied, and Wilford bowed his head, wishing the Genevra across the sea ht know that his child bore her nareith the fancy that possibly in that other world, whose existence he never really doubted, the Genevra he had wronged would care for his child, if children there need care "She will know it is htful face he went in quest of Katy, whoarments just sent in for her inspection

Wilford was averse to black It would not become Katy, he feared, and it would be an unanswerable reason for her re closely home for the entire winter