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But Miss Caone to do his duty, and as she worked, she repeated to Helen the particulars of his going, telling hohen the war first broke out, and Su association with Southern men at West Point, had imbibedStates, gaining the cogno in his lot with that side rather than the other But the remembrance of a little incident saved him, she said The remembrance of a queer old lady who, held her wrinkled hand above his head in benediction, charging hi her prayers for his safety if found on the side of the Union

"I wish you could hear Bob tell the story, the funny part, I , as well as she could, the particulars of Lieutenant Bob's ressed and she recognized herself in the queer old Yankee wo to law about a sheep pasture, dropped her head lower and lower over her pan of peaches, while a scarlet flush spread itself all over her thin face, but changed into a grayish white as Bell concluded with "Bob says the memory of that hand lifted above his head haunted hi the period of his uncertainty, and was at last thehim from treachery to his country"

"Thank God!" ca lips, and, looking up, Bell saw the great tears running down her cheeks, tears which she wiped aith her arm, while she said faintly: "That old woman, who made a fool of herself in the cars, wasin her astonishment to carry to her mouth the luscious half peach she had intended for that purpose, and dropping it untasted into the pan, while Katy, who had been listening with so: "You, Aunt Betsy! When were you in New York, and why did I never know it?"

It could not be kept back, and, unmindful of Bell, Helen explained to Katy as well as she could the circumstances of Aunt Betsy's visit to New York the previous winter

"And she never let me know it, or come to see me, because--because--" Katy hesitated, and looked at Bell, who said, pertly: "Because Will is so abominably proud, and would have made such a fuss Don't spoil a story for relations' sake, I beg," and the young lady laughed good hu peace to all save Katy, whose face wore a troubled look, and who soon stole away to her ard to a circumstance which seemed so mysterious to her