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Wilford's home was not pleasant to him now, but the fault ith hi hi to win him from the dark mood she could not fathom Times there hen for an entire day he would appear like his for her his "poor crushed dove," but never asking her forgiveness for all he had made her endure He was too proud to do that now, and his tenderness always passed ahen he remembered Morris Grant and Katy's remark to Helen: "I am afraid it can never be with us as it was once I have not the saht to co the tiravated for naturally, and rehiter and her voice sadder in its tone

So away fro till the clock struck twelve before he came, and Katy would afterward hear that he had been at the house of some friend, or with Sybil Grandon, whose influence over him increased in proportion as her oas lessened

When the Lenten days caain in its quiet church, and offer up her penitential prayers with the loved ones at hoo, her spirits rising when he did not refuse her request at once, but asked: "Whom do you wish to see the h, and soht to her face the blush which he construed according to his jealousy, and when she answered: "I wish to see them all," he retorted: "Say, rather, you wish to see that doctor, who has loved you so long, and who but for me would have asked you to be his wife!"

"What doctor, Wilford? Whom do you mean?" and Wilford replied: "Dr Grant, of course Did you never suspect it?"

"Never," and Katy's face grew very white, as she asked how Wilford knehat he had asserted

"I had it fro on one side of you and I upon the other I so far forgotyou, and he did not deny it, but confessed as pretty a piece of ro to his story, it was a one-sided affair, confined wholly to himself You never dreamed of it, he said"