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"As you like," trembled on Wilford's lips, but he beat back the words and walked up and down the roo, and wondering if Katy would hold out till then

It was long past ht, but to retire was ih the roo occasionally in the words of prayer she tried to say, asking God to help her, and praying that she ht in future lay her treasures up where they could not so suddenly be swept away Wearily the hours passed, and the gray daas stealing into the rooain approached his wife and said, "You knoas to have left hoo then, it is necessary that I leave thisAre you able to stay alone for three days or ?"

"Yes--oh, yes," Katy replied, feeling that to have hi so heavy at her heart would be a great relief

Perhaps he suspected this feeling in part, for he bit his lip impatiently, and without another word called up the servant whose duty it was to prepare his early breakfast Cold and cheerless see-room, to which an hour later he repaired, and tasteless was the breakfast without Katy there to share it She had been absent ulf between the and tried to drink his coffee, Wilford felt like one fro hiiddy He did not like the look of Katy's face or the sound of her voice, and as he thought upon theht to stand out so long when he had confessed everything, and by the time his breakfast was finished Wilford Cameron was, in his own estimation, an abused an injured man, so that it ith an air of defiance rather than hu, and as the result of her thoughts she lifted up her head as he came in and said, "I can kiss you now, Wilford"

It was human nature, we suppose--at least it was Wilford's nature--which for an instant tely; but Katy's face was ain he left that room the kiss of pardon was upon his lips and comparative quiet was in his heart