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I was almost faint with love of her and wonder; I adored her the more for the earnestness hich she lifted her flushed, s, innocent face to say: "But tell me about the office, please You wouldn't want e the ood Don't you like Judge Baker?"

"I love you! Oh, yes, the Judge says, 'if we are confronted with an ugly duckling we ? I'm sure you love me, Helen"

"Did he say that? Well, even when I last saw hily duckling!"

We laughed like children In the sunshine of her joy-lit eyes I forgot theexcept that I had reached New York and Nelly, and that the world was beautiful when she looked upon it

We cahts; and as we boarded a train on the elevated, eyes peered around newspapers An old gentle the words, "ain, " wolance and querulously touched his elboo slender girls looked and whispered

I thought at first that city folks had no an to wonder that Helen escaped so easily She had dran a scrap of a veil that scarcely obscured her glow and colour and, as the train gathered headway, our neighbours settled in their places almost as unconcernedly as if no marvel of beauty and youth were present Indeed, irls continued to eye Helen with envy; and I was conscious of an absurd feeling of resentet up and cry out: "Don't you people know that this car contains a miracle?"

Why, when Helen lifted to her knee a child that tugged at the skirts of the stout German hausfrau in the next seat, the lance

"How old are you?" asked Helen

"Sechs yahre," was the shy answer

"Such a big girl for six!"

"So grosse! So grosse!"

The little thingher forehead

"Shump down," admonished theupon her theago, wasn't it," Nelly asked, when the child had slid from her lap, "that Uncle promised to take you into his office?"