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And she held it toward the youngfor the breath which ca snow blind, for there was that day quite a fall of soft spring snow; and then with a hty effort, which made his heart quiver with pain, Morris was himself once more, and took the letter in his hand

"Perhaps I had better not read it," he said, but Katy insisted that heto himself: "It will cure me sooner perhaps," he read the few lines Wilford Cameron had written to his "dear little Katy"

That was the way he addressed her, going on to say that circumstances which he could not explain to her had kept him silent ever since he left her the previous autuotten her, thinking of her the more for the silence he had maintained "And now that I have risen above the circumstances," he added, in conclusion, "I write to ask if I ain If I may, just drop me one word, 'come,' and in less than a week I shall be there Yours very truly, W Ca that every as separating him further and further from Katy, to whom he said: "You will answer this?"

"Yes, oh yes; perhaps to-day"

"And you will tell him to come?"

"Why, yes--what else should I tell hily at Morris, who hardly knehat he was doing, or why he said to her next: "Listen to me, Katy You knohy Wilford Cameron comes here a second tioes away; but, Katy, you are not strong enough yet to see hi circumstances, and, as your physician, I desire that you tell him to wait at least three weeks before he comes Will you do so, Katy?"

"That is just as Helen talked," Katy answered, mournfully "She said I was not able"

"And will you heed us?" Morris asked again, while Katy after a lad of this respite from what he knew to a certainty would be, Morris dealt out her medicine, and for an instant felt her rapid pulse, but did not retain her hand within his own, nor lay his other upon her head, as he had sometimes done