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Yes Phillips remembered how sick Esther said she looked when she caht

"Oh, yes; she stayed at my father's then It was very proper she should," Wilford replied, recollecting hi to appear natural, so that Phillips would not suspect hi her

If Katy spent the night at his father's then To Phillips he hastened to his ht while I was gone, the night but one after that dinner when she heard of Genevra, I mean?"

"Why, no," Mrs Cameron replied, in some surprise "Katy has not stayed here since last October, just after she came from Silverton, and you were in Detroit Why do you ask? What is the matter? What do you fear?"

Wilford would not tell hisher repeat what she could remember of the day when she was first summoned to Katy, and to tell hi," she said "The former, as I understood from Esther, had just co her so ill that he sent for me immediately"

"And you do not know that Katy ay from home at all?" was Wilford's next inquiry, to which hisvery sick when she ca, but she was not here, sure"

Esther, it would seeht upon the mystery, and as by this time the jealous man did not care whom he questioned, he left his mother without a word of explanation, and hurried home, where he found Esther, and in a voice which made her tremble, bade her answer his questions truthfully, without the slightest attempt at evasion

"Yes, sir," Esther replied, and Wilford continued: "Where was your ht before Dr Grant came here, and she was so very sick?"

"I don't know, sir I had the impression that she at your mother's Wasn't she there?" and Esther looked very innocent, while Wilford replied: "It is your business to answer questions, not to ask the away, and what she said"

As nearly as she could remember Esther repeated what had passed between herself and Katy that , but herback so, and in a paroxys: "You know more than you admit Tell me then the truth Who came home with Mrs Cameron, and when?"