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She repeated the question twice, and rallying all his strength Wilford answered her at last: "Genevra Laht so," and the next moment Katy lay in Wilford's arms, dead, as he feared, for there was no motion about the eyelids, no motion that he could perceive about the pulse or heart, as he laid the rigid fory to restore her, even though he feared that it was hopeless

"Ionce to send for a physician and laying his hand upon the bell rope for the purpose of ringing up a servant; but a faint, gasping soundhim there yet was life and that Katy was not dead

If possible he would prefer that no one should intrude upon them now, and he chafed her icy hands and bathed her face until the eyes unclosed again, but with a shudder turned away as they er and re: "If Genevra Lambert is your wife, what then am I? Oh, Wilford, how could you make me not a wife, when I trusted and loved you sounder a mistake, and he did not wonder at the violence of her eed her so cruelly, and co nearer to her he said: "You mistake me; Genevra Lambert was my wife once, but is not now, for she is dead Do you hear irl playing in the fields at ho back so of her olden look, in place of the expression which troubled and frightened hiathered in Katy's eyes, washing out the wild, unnatural gleam, while the lips whispered: "And it was her picture Juno saw She told ht I came and I tried to question you You remember?"

Wilford did remember it and he replied: "Yes, but I did not suppose you knew I had a picture You have been a good wife, Katy, never to mention it since then;" and he tried to kiss her forehead, but she covered it with her hands, saying, sadly: "Not yet, Wilford, I cannot bear it now I must know the whole about Genevra Why didn't you tell me before? Why have you deceived me so?"