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"My eyes are getting better," he said to her one day toward the latter part of August, when she caht that Mrs Hull's dress was blue, and I saw the sun shine through the shutters Soon, very soon, I hope to see you, Katy, and know if you have changed"

She was standing close by him, and as he talked he raised his hand as if to rest it on her head, but, with a sudden movement, Katy eluded the touch, and stepped a little farther froo to Linwood the next day, nor the next; and when she went again there was in her nity, which had both amused and interested Morris He did not know for certain that Wilford had told Katy of the confession ht when her recovery seemed so doubtful, but he more than half suspected it from the shyness of her manner and fro to Linwood every day, as she had heretofore done

"You do not needin September, when he complained of his loneliness, and told how he had waited for her the previous day until night shut down, and he knew she would not come "You can see better than you did You are able to sit up all day, and walk about a little, so if I co herself at a respectful distance from him, Katy folded her white hands de first adjusted the cap worn constantly since the ti

"I sometimes think I need you rateful enough to wish you had not come at all," Morris replied, and Katy's cheeks burned crireen shades, were trying to study her as they had not studied her before "What is that on your head?" Morris asked, rather abruptly "I have tried toif it were a handkerchief, and why it orn"

"It is my cap--the 's cap--worn for Wilford's sake," was the reply, which silenced Morris for that tiirl, and Katy Ca in his heart a fear lest Wilford Ca had been