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They had reached a very tender and sole had been the wo at his plate as his hostess began again with assuirl Can you take "

"Certainly I should be delighted But your brother knows her--she would be pleased to see you both, I've no doubt"

"My brother thinks she is a fraud, and does not wish to see her--"

"I derive e from you, Dr Britt"

Britt was undisturbed "I think she is a fraud, too, but a very char," said Kate

"And all the erous," replied Britt "She bafflesto do with her--exhibit her to the public?"

"Not for the present Clarke has beennotes industriously all the year and is about ready to publish He noants a few of the big fellows, like Uncle Simeon Pratt, to help booive them credit for that--and as for the mother, she is entirely honest--she believes iirl in a horrible position--if she is deceiving," Morton interposed "Iine her state of mind if she realizes that her own ht is horrible"

"It is quite as bad at that," returned Britt "You see, the mother has been for years in close daily communion--as she supposes--with her husband, her little son, and others of her dead Half of her daily life is in these joys, the other half in her daughter There stood the wall that stopped me I couldn't express my doubt to the mother I couldn't apply the clamps I simply withdrew I do not intend to pursue theas the mother is alive"

Morton's face was clouded with pain "Let us drop the La, especially as I see no way of helping them When do you return?"

Kate acquiesced in her brother's diversion of the streao, she seized the opportunity to say: "You irl I have never been so excited about any one in my life Can't you take me to-morrow?"

"I am entirely at your service Suppose I call at four--will that do?"

"Perfectly I'rateful to you"

"I hope you won't coirl is da She may enamour you"