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"The burden is now removed," Mark said, and then he told her how, arrived at Albany, he had telegraphed to hiswhere Helen was

"In Silverton," was the reply, and so he cafield, as he had half expected to do, knowing that she could leave New York in time to join him there

"No words of mine," he said, "are adequate to describe the thrill of joy hich I looked again upon the hills and rocks so identified with you that I loved the the sick and faint with exciteleaathered the lilies for you Doesremember it?"

He knew she did by the clasp of her hand, and he continued: "Had a dead body risen fro its coffin with it, it could not have created greater consternation, or made worse havoc with the people's wits than did my sudden appearance in their midst Good Aunt Betsy, I ath of the cellar stairs, spraining her ankle, bruising her elbow shockingly, and, direst cala the dish of charlotte russe she was holding in her hand There is a wedding in progress, I learned from mother, and it see, in reality, a double wedding, when I can truly clai to see how the blushes broke over her white face, and burned upon her neck

Those were happy e of rocks, happy enough to atone for all the dreadful past, and when at last they arose and slowly retraced their steps to the farmhouse, it seemed to Mark that Helen's cheeks were rounder, fuller, than when he found her, while Helen knew that the arer than when it first inclosed her an hour or two ago