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Only Mistress Stagg kept beside her; for Mistress Deborah hung back,

unwilling to be seen in her co of his better nature, had sunk to hiht aid this wounded

was a kindly soul, whose heart had led her coh life with

very little appeal to her head The two or three young woe--ere under indentures to her

husband and herself found her as much their friend as mistress Their

triumphs in the petty playhouse of this town of a thousand souls were

hers, and oes they had came quickly to her ears Now she would have

slipped her hand into Audrey's and have given garrulous coate and took their way up Palace

Street toward the save not her hand, did not

answer, made no moan, neither justified herself nor blalance about her moved like a

sleepwalker

When the house was reached she went up to the bedroo stormily ten e Audrey, who, standing in the esture so coo stayed her tirade,