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The day of his return was balmy and beautiful as the days of June are apt to be, and at an early hour Helen went over to Linwood to see that everything was in order for his arrival

"Mrs Hull will have dinner waiting for hi: "I wish you would corateful, I know"

Katy did not reply, but struck softly the chords of the piano and thought how foolish she was to feel as she did Suppose Morris had loved her once, he probably did not now, and even if he did, it could do no good, for she was the sa She had tried matrimony, and found it--she did not say what She never allowed herself to think an unkind thing of Wilford if she could help it, but a tear dropped upon the piano keys as she unconsciously hu "I would not, no, I would not, recall the past again, for rief and pain"

Katy's tears were falling fast by the ti fro home, poor, worn-out, half-blind Morris, who has done so o up and welcoine he still retains a fancy for an old woirl of seventeen"

Katy felt very old just then, and walking to the glass, was almost vexed at the sht to look older at twenty-three," she said "Morris will think I have not listened on her eyelashes as she thought of being accused of forgetfulness of the dead

Katy did look very young for twenty-three Her health was perfect now, and save as the change in her character showed itself upon her face, she had scarcely changed at all since the day when she caua with her heart and head so full of hi in Greenwood

"I knohat's the ly upon the silkenbut this net which irl wears one, and I have followed the fashion, letting it hang down e I'll take it off, or at all events I won't wear it to Linwood," and tossing aside the offending net, Katy bound her luxuriant hair in bands which she coiled around the back of her head and then put on the 's cap, discarded so many months, and frolass