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Mark kneho the boy was and after a hurried consultation with Helen, who knowing Billy well, suggested that money would probably be more acceptable than even skates or jackknives, neither of which were possible now, folded so in a bit of paper, on which he wrote a name and then sent it to the rector

"Billy Brown, our faithful organ boy," sounded through the church, and with a brightened face Billy went up the aisle and received the little package, ascertaining before he reached his standpoint near the door that he was the owner of a five-dollar bill, andto add both peanuts and molasses candy to the stock of apples he daily carried into the cars

"You ginto Helen, "poked hi his hand on the boy's coarse hair, "if I did, you one I leave her in your charge She is to be ht so," and Bill's cap went toward the plastering just as the last string of popcorn was given from the tree, and the exercises were about to close

It was not in Aunt Betsy's nature to keep her secret till this tiift she whispered it to her neighbor, hispered it to hers, until nearly all the audience knew of it, and kept their seats after the benediction was pronounced

At a sign from the rector, Katy ith her mother to the altar, followed by Uncle Ephrai off the cloud she had worn upon her head, and giving it, with her cloak and fur, into Billy's charge, took Mark's offered ar cheeks passed between the sea of eyes fixed so curiously upon her, up to where Katy once had stood on the Junewhen she had been the bride Not now, as then, were aching hearts present at that bridal No Marian Hazelton fainted by the door; no Morris felt the world grow dark and desolate as the e voere spoken; and no sister doubted if it were all right and would end in happiness Only Katy see that Helen's life ht not be like hers

The ceremony lasted but a few moments, and then the astonished audience pressed around the bride, offering their kindly congratulations, and proving to Mark Ray that the bride he had as dear to others as well as to hily he drew her hand beneath his arm, fondly he looked down upon her as he led her back to her chair by the register,her sit dohile he tied on her cloak and adjusted the fur about her neck