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For four years, Kate struggled valiantly to keep pace hat

her mother always had done, and had required of her at ho that fare was hopeless So at last she beca , or sleeping the re her children while very small, and daily

they had their lessons after dinner, while their father slept

Kate thought often of as happening to her; she hated it, she

fought it; but with George Holt for a partner she could not escape

it She lay awake nights, planning ways to make a start toward

prosperity; she propounded her ideas at breakfast To save ti the horses as soon

as she was up, so that George could go to work iht as well save her strength

He would not start to harness until he had shbours laughed at hiot

ahead of him bothered him not at all All they said and all Kate

said, went, as he expressed it, "in at one ear, out at the other"

One day in going around the house Kate was suddenly confronted by

a thing she ht have seen for three years, but had not noticed

Leading from the path of bare, hard-beaten earth that ran around

the house through the grass, was a s path not so wide