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On every business paper Wilford wrote or signed, and in every object he met in his journey, one face had been proray dahen it lifted itself up to kiss him, while the white lips tried to speak his pardon So how Katy was suffering for his sin; and then, when he re that he sued for it so earnestly, his self-iht to be so obstinate He did not deserve it He was a very kind, indulgent husband, who had raised her froht not to feel so indignant because he had kept from her an act which, after all, did not affect her , and on this side of the water, he could understand how it , as they both did, that she was innocent of the charges alleged against her

"I should nota divorced wife at any tiht to be more reasonable I did not suppose there was so ht, Wilford could not forget Katy's face, so full of reproach It followed hinet which turned his steps homeward before his business was quite done, and before the telegra circumstances that he reached New York just at the close of the day after Katy's return, and ordering a carriage, was driven rapidly toward home All the shutters in the front part of the house were closed and not a ray of light was to be seen in the parlors as he entered the hall, where the gas was burning dimly

"Katy is at home," he said, as he went into the library, where a shaas thrown across a chair, as if some one had lately been there

It was hisif she was there, when down the stairs came a man's rapid step, and the nextwhen he saw Wilford, who felt intuitively that so

"Is Katy sick?" was his first question, which Morris answered in the affir for her roo to him: "Let me send your mother to you first" What passed between Wilford and his mother was never known exactly, but at the close of the interview Mrs Cameron was very pale, while Wilford's face looked dark and anxious, as he said: "You think he understands it, then?"