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"It'sjust as Wilford caood-humored that the boy ventured to inquire for Mrs Cameron "She looked so pale and sick, the other day," he said, "alht in the cars with Dr Grant, just before she was so dangerously ill"

"What's that? What did you say?" Wilford asked quickly, and To he had not been understood, repeated his words, while in a voice which Tom scarcely knew, it was so low and husky, Wilford asked: "What night was Mrs Cameron in the cars with Dr Grant? When was it, and where?"

As suspicion is an intense nifier, so the absence of it will blind one completely, and Tom was thus blindfolded as he stated in detail hoo o, while Mr Cameron was absent, he had been sent by Mr Ray to Hartford, returning in the early train, that just before hientleman sat with a lady who seemed to be sick, at all events her head lay on his shoulder and he occasionally bent over her to see if she wanted anything

"I did not ht, when I saw the man was Dr Grant, and e reached New York the lady threw back her veil and I saas Mrs Carasped Toy which made the boy wince, while there came over him a suspicion that he had talked too much

But it could not now be helped, and to Wilford's question he answered: "Yes, for she bowed to o?" was the next question, put in thunder tones, for Wilford was res Katy said in her delirium, and which were now explained, if Toe toward your house, and that night I heard she was sick," To back to his book, while Wilford seized his hat and started up Broadway It was not his intention when he left the office to question the servants with regard to his wife, for every feeling and principle of his nature shrank from such an act, but by the time his home could be reached it could scarcely be said that he was in his rightPhillips in the hall, he demanded of her "if she remembered the day when Mrs Cameron was first taken ill"