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It was a htful trip, and Wilford was better satisfied with himself than he had been before in years His past life was not all free fro hi what he adones to the wind, feeling only an intense desire to clasp the young girl in his arms and bear her away to some spot where with her pure fresh life all his own he could begin the world anew, and retrieve the past which he had lost This hen he ith Katy Away from her he could remember the difference in their position, and prudential an to make themselves heard Never but once had he taken an i his ht him was not ended yet, and never would be ended until death had set its seal upon the brow of one alh in a far different way And this hy Katy ca her heart with Wilford Cameron, ould first seek advice fro himself by word He had seen the white-haired erly for her when the train stopped at Silverton, but standing there as he did, with his silvery locks parted in the center, and shading his honest, open face, Uncle Ephraim looked like some patriarch of old rather than a man to be despised, and Wilford felt only a respect for hily around his neck as she kissed and called hi this was the uncle of wholad that he was not bound to her by any pledge Very curiously he looked after the couple, witnessing the htly that the corn-colored vehicle was the one sent to transport Katy home He was very moody for the remainder of the route between Silverton and Albany, where he parted with his Canandaigua friends, they going on to the ard, while he stopped all night in Albany, where he had some business to transact for his father And this hy he did not reach New York until late in the afternoon of the following day

He was intending to tell his , except indeed that he paid Katy's bills He would rather keep that to hiht shock his mother's sense of propriety andKaty, little drea as on that rainy afternoon she sat in the kitchen at Silverton, with her feet in the stove-oven and the cat asleep in her lap, of the conversation taking place between Wilford Cahting his cigar, which for that one time the mother per her to guess what took him off so suddenly with Mrs Woodhull