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"They were engaged," Esther said, adding that "he was about joining the army as first lieutenant in a co men in the city"

Helen doubted if this were true, until one day, when driving with herso handso with a brother officer, and as he passed he lifted his cap in token of recognition; but the olden look which Helen remembered so well, and which had been wont to one, and Helen felt ulf some hand had built between them The next she heard was from Mrs Banker, whose face looked pale and worn as she incidentally reone He left ton"

There were tears on the mother's face, and her lip quivered as she tried to keep the from theinto the street instead of at her co which swept over her, laid her face on the sofa arm and sobbed aloud

"Why, Helen! Miss Lennox, I am surprised! I had supposed--I was not aware--I did not think you would care," Mrs Banker exclai you will excuse me, I cannot help it I care for all our soldiers It seems so terrible"

At the words "I care for all the soldiers," a shadow of disappointment flitted over Mrs Banker's face She knew her son had offered himself and been refused, as she supposed, and she believed, too, that Helen had given publicity to the affair, feeling justly indignant at this breach of confidence and lack of delicacy in one whom she had liked so much and whom she still liked in spite of the wounded pride which had prompted her to seem so cold and distant

"Perhaps it is all aby Helen, whose tears did not cease, "or it may be she has relented," and for a moment she felt tempted to ask why her boy had been refused

But Mark would not be pleased with her interference, she knew, and so the goldenbetween herself and Helen was just as wide as ever Wearily after that the days passed with Helen until all thoughts of herself were forgotten in the terrible fear that death was really brooding over the pillohere Katy lay, insensible to all that was passing around her The lips were silent now, and Wilford had nothing to fear froue hitherto so busy Juno, Bell and Father Ca tears upon the face looking so old and ith suffering, but yet so sweet and pure, and treading softly as they left the rooain In the kitchen there wasfor her mistress, while Esther, with her apron over her head, sobbed passionately, wishing she, too, ht die if Katy did Mrs Caed to find sorand funeral, which would do honor to her son, and wondering if "those Barlows in Silverton would think they ed, the iven birth to Katy wrestled in earnest prayer that God would spare her child, or at least grant soht be told of the world to which she was hastening What Wilford suffered none could guess His face was very white and his expression al ho had been his for little ht not have been lying there unconscious of the love and grief around her Like some marble statue Morris seeether he, too, sat watching Katy, feeling for the pulse and bending his ear to catch the faintest breath which came from her parted lips, while in his heart there was an earnest prayer for the safety of the soul hovering so evenly between this world and the next He did not ask that she ht live, for if all ell hereafter he kneas far better for her to die in her young wo had grown calloused with sorrow And yet it was terrible to think of Katy dead; to know that never again would her little feet dance on the grass, or her bird-like voice break the silence of his home; terrible to think of that face and form laid away beneath the turf of Greenwood, where those who loved her best could seldoo to weep