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It was quite natural, and in keeping with huion in his face, forgetting that never on this side the eternal world canas flesh and blood re God's children Morris felt the sneer keenly; but the consciousness of peace with his Maker sustained him in the shock and, with the sa what you call a saint preventwhat I did?"

"No, not the confession, but the fact," Wilford answered, savagely "How do you reconcile your acknowledged love for Katy with the injunctions of the Bible whose doctrines you indorse?"

"A s, but he can strive to overcome the te to your own reasoning you have sinned, for you not only have teen tempted, but have yielded to the temptation," Wilford retorted, with a sinister look of exultation in his black eyes

For a le of so on in his ht to lay open to you a secret which, after "

"And that one--is--you will not tell me that is Katy?" Wilford exclai with fire

"No, not Katy She has no suspicion of the pain which, since I saw her row old so fast, and blightingin Morris' tone and rasp upon the ar him back to his chair while Morris continued: "Mostto a husband of the love they bore his wife, and an hour ago I should have shrunk from it, too, but you have forced me to it, and now you an longer ago than she can rean when she wasby her cradle and watching her with a feeling I have never been able to define She was in all e of every book I studied, and her voice in every strain of rew older, I used to watch the frolicso castles even then of the future, when she would be a woht to win her I know that she shieldedreatest, and I was at its verge, a thought of her was sufficient to lead me back to virtue I carried her in o back I will ask her to bewith Katy after her return froua she toldfor strength to bear rant that you nor she may never experience what I experienced on that day which o away It seeht after the bridal I sat alone at home, and met that dark hour of sorrow In thewith rew less, and I could pray that God would grantfor Katy which should not be sinful And He did at last, so I could think of her without a wish that she was mine Times there hen the old love would burst forth with fearful power, and then I wished that I led to overcoht on the floor would bring the past tothat it was greater than I could bear But God was verylittle leisure for regrets, and driving me away from my own pain to soothe the pain of others When Katy came to us last sureeak, and I was te with me But that, too, passed, and inupon her as a sister rather than the Katy I had loved so well I would have given h it was a bar between us, a so which separated her froh dead, that baby is still a bar, and Katy is not the sa It is not wrong to love her as I do now I feel no pang of conscience save when soround where I have fought so many battles"