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True to her pro herself a dreadful romp as she climbed over the rocks in Aunt Betsy's famous sheep pasture, or raked the hay in the enuine woman, as with blanced cheek and anxious heart she waited for tidings from the battles before Richmond, where the tide of success seemed to turn, and the North, hitherto so jubilant and hopeful, eeds of on Lieutenant Bob was there, and Wilford, too; and so was Captain Ray, digging in the marshy swa on the weary h the seven days, where the sun poured down its burning heat and the night brought little rest No wonder, then, that the three faces at the farrew di the daily papers But the na the wounded, dead, or , and with the fall of the first autumn leaf Bell returned to the city, ard to Helen Lennox's real feelings toward Captain Ray

Rapidly autu at last the week before Christ ruddy and bronzed fro the disappointed, listless look which Bell was quick to detect, connecting it in some ith Helen Lennox Only once did he call at Mr Cameron's, and then as Juno was not present Bell had hireat deal of Silverton, of Helen and Katy, in the latter of whom he seemed far more interested than in her sister Many questions he asked concerning Katy, expressing his regret that Wilford had ever left her, and saying he believed Wilford was sorry, too He was in the hospital noith a severe cold and a touch of the rheumatism, he said; but as Bell knew this already she did not dwell long upon that subject, choosing rather to talk of Helen--"as much interested in the soldiers," she said, "as if she had a brother or a lover in the arly at Mark, who answered carelessly: "Dr Grant is there, you know, and that may account for her interest"

Mark knew heto ward off Bell's attacks, and so he continued talking of Dr Grant and how much he was liked by the poor wretches who needed so of ho else Once, too, he spoke of a nurse, a second Nightingale, whose shadow on the wall the soldiers had not kissed perhaps, but orshiped by the pale, sick men to whom she ministered so tenderly