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"Yea, mother, it was," and without any reservation Wilford frankly told the story of his interest in Katy Lennox

He admitted that she was poor and unaccustomed to society, but he loved her more than words could express

"Not as I loved Genevra," he said, as he saw his mother about to speak, and there came a look of intense pain into his fine eyes as he continued: "That was the passion of a boy of nineteen, simulated by secrecy, but this is different--this is the love of afor hi the mother that opposition would only feed the flame, and so she offered none directly, but heard him patiently to the end, and then quietly questioned him of Katy and her family, especially the last What did he know of it? Was it one to detract fro? Were the relatives such as he never need blush to own, even if they ca-rooht of Uncle Ephraim as he had seen him upon the platform at Silverton, and could scarcely repress a smile as he pictured to hi that -rooed that Katy's family friends were not exactly the Ca; Katy could be easily molded, and once away from her old associates, his mother and sisters could make of her what they pleased

"I understand, then, that if you marry her you do not marry the family," and in the handsome, matronly face there was an expression from which Katy would have shrunk; could she have seen it and understood its

"No, I do not marry the family," Wilford rejoined, emphatically, but the expression of his face was different froht only of herself, not hesitating to trample on all Katy's love of ho hoouldher wholly from her home, as he surely meant to do if he should win her "Did I tell you," he continued, "that her father was a judge? She h I never heard of a Judge Lennox in any of our courts"