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"Are you of the same mind still?" Helen asked, when, three weeks later, she returned fro sat in her cha Katy as she brushed her wavy hair, occasionally curling a tress around her fingers and letting it fall upon her snowy nightdress

They had been talking of Morris, whoht, and that at church, where he had come the previous Sunday Katy had written an account of the transaction to her sister, who had chosen to reply by word of mouth rather than by letter, and so the first moment they were alone she seized the opportunity to ask if Katy was of the same mind still as when she refused the doctor

"Yes; why shouldn't I be?" Katy replied "You better than any one else knehat passed between Wilford andMorris, and you can--"

"Do you love Morris?" Helen asked, abruptly, without waiting for Katy to finish her sentence

For an instant the hands stopped in their work, and Katy's eyes filled with tears, which dropped into her lap as she replied: "More than I wish I did, seeing I e, too, how the love for hi in spite of all I can do I have not been there since, nor spoken with hi, I knew the moment he entered the church, and when in the first chant I heard his voice, ers trembled so that I could scarcely play, while all the tioes out after the rest I always find with him But it cannot be"

"Suppose Morris had asked you first, what then?" was Helen's next straightforward question, and Katy, who had no secrets froh I never thought of it then Oh, Helen, I wish Wilford had never known that Morris lovednoith her head in Helen's lap, and Helen, sently: "You have taken a ht for you to answer Morris yes, and Wilford would say so, too When I received your letter apprising me of the refusal, I read it to Bell, who said she was so sorry, and then told what Wilford said before he died YouHe referred to a time when you would cease to be his , and he said he illing, said so to her, and you Do you remember it, Katy?"