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And Katy, listening eagerly, with her great blue eyes fixed upon his face, felt that to be like him, to experience that of which he talked, orth more than all the world beside Gradually; too, there stole over her the rest she always felt with hi which pro except to do just what he bade her do, knowing it was right So when he said at last, "You o back to New York; this is no place for you," she offered no reht; that is, youtrain, so as to reach the city before any one has had a chance to read the letter," she demurred at once "She must see mother; she must see Helen; she must tell Helen who Genevra was She wanted her to know it, but no one else She o back without it"

"Not if it is right?" Morris asked, and Katy began to waver when he told her how much better it would be for her family not to know of this visit to him, as it would trouble them She could tell Wilford, if she liked, but he must not be permitted to find the letter, as he would if he returned while she was gone "I will go with you It is not safe for you to go alone," he continued, feeling her rapid pulse and noticing the alternate flushing and paling of her cheek

A fever was co on, he feared, and it must not be there with him, for more reasons than one Sheto do that, he must take her across the fields to the far dawn

"Are you sick, Katy?" he asked, as she appeared to be growing stupid

"Not sick, no; only so tired, so sleepy," and the heavy lids closed over the dull eyes, while Katy's head still lay upon the cushioned are chair

Her position was not an easy one, and wheeling the lounge to the fire Morris brought a pillow fro Katy in his arms laid her where she would at least behis shawl about her and turning down the gas so as to shield her eyes, he left her alone, while he went to Mrs Hull, puzzling her brain to knoho the lady was, brought there that stor and earnestly with the doctor The driver boy was gone, and thinking it possible that their visitor htful wo forth volumes of steam just as Morris appeared If he went to New York with Katy he , and as from past experience he believed she could be trusted, he frankly told her that Mrs Wilford Cameron was in the library; that circumstances rendered it desirable for her to return to New York as soon as possible; that as she could not go alone he o with her, and he expected Mrs Hull not only to help hi been there a secret from every one