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Springfield was left behind just as the gray daylight ca the sleepy passengers, andMorris pull his wide collar a little closer about his face as if to avoid observation He was not afraid of daylight except as it ht disclose some old acquaintance ould perhaps wonder to see hifield and Hartford, and wonderso confidentially upon his shoulder, for after the change at Springfield, Katy, who could no longer keep awake, had leaned against his arm as readily as if he had been her brother

A secret of any kind makes its possessor suspicious, and Morris felt anxious whenever any one glanced that way, but he would not waken Katy, who slept upon his arhtened, startled feeling, she sat up, and pushing her veil fro half unconsciously to Tho seen hi Hartford had been a passenger on board that train, sitting just behind Dr Morris, and wondering when he saho his companion was, "if Mrs Wilford had been to Silverton" Mattie wondered, too, when he told her, as she poured his half-cold coffee, and then it passed fro when he heard Mark Ray saying to a client who had asked when Mr Cameron would probably return: "If he does not coraph for him, as his wife is very sick"

Then Toard Katy's face had looked, and many times that day his mind recurred to Katy Ca supernaturally beautiful, and who, in her own roo of Silverton, of Linwood, of baby, of Genevra, and of Wilford

Morris had seen her safely to her own door, and then thinking she would do best alone for a ti the bell and seen that the ring was answered

It was Esther whowhy she did not stay at Father Ca ho what she did, Katyher room, and whispered: "I have not been to Father Cameron's I had business somewhere else, but you must not tell I auess it's over now You are a good girl, and I can trust you There's a letter in that drawer, please bring it to me"