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"You knoe are related," Juno said, holding Helen's hand a long ti, ostensibly to sho very friendly she felt, but really to examine and calculate the probable value of the superb diaift, left for her with his mother, who had presented it for him

"As diamonds are now, that never cost less than four or five hundred dollars," Juno said, as she was discussing thethey had admired so much at Tiffany's the last time they were there, and then her spiteful, envious nature found vent in the remark: "I wonder at Mark's taste when only shoddy buy dia that little pin for you the other day?" Bell asked, and Juno replied: "I have always been accusto fro theers were, and rough, too? Positively her hand felt like a nutrapes," Bell said, her gray eyes flashing indignantly upon her sister, isely forbore further re if people generally would take up Mrs Ray and honor her as they once did Katy

"Of course they will," she said "It's like heaps of the, for those who had liked Helen Lennox did not find her less desirable now that she was Helen Ray, and numberless were the attentions bestowed upon her and the invitations she received

But with few exceptions Helen declined the latter, feeling that, circuer, it was better not to ay society She was very happy with Mrs Banker, who petted and caressed and loved her alhter Mark's letters, too, which caht sun spots in her existence, so full were they of tender love and kind thoughtfulness for her He was very happy, he wrote, in knowing that at ho and praying for him, and but for the separation from her ell content noith a soldier's life Once when he was stationed for a longer ti to him for a week or more, but the project was prevented by the sudden arrival in New York of Katy, who caht to Mrs Banker's, her face as white as ashes, and a strange, wild expression in her eyes as she said to Helen: "I aht to go on to-night, but cannot,both her hands upon her head Katy sank fainting into Helen's arms