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Wilford was very polite to theood-humored, but he kept to his first position, and poor Mrs Lennox saw fade into airy nothingness all her visions of roasted fowls and frosted cake trimmed with myrtle and flowers, with hosts of the Silverton people there to ade feast It was too bad, and so Aunt Betty said, when, after Wilford had gone to Linwood, the fa the matter over

"Yes, it was too bad, when there was that white hen turkey she could fat up so easy before June, and she kne to make 'lection cake that would ht better than the black stuff they called weddin' cake Vum! she meant to try what she could do with Mr Caain she did try, holding out as induce for Boston, the "white hen, turkey, the 'lection cake, and the gay old ti snap-and-catchem; or if they had a mind, they could dance a bit in the kitchen She didn't believe in it, to be sure--none of the orthodox did; but as Wilford was a 'Piscopal, and that was a 'Piscopal quirk, it wouldn't harust, and only Helen suspected how hard it was for him to keep down his utter conte volcanoes as they rested upon Aunt Betsy during her harangue

"Thank you, ood intentions, but I think ill dispense with the turkey and the cake," was all he said, though he did s, which for once she ht allow

Even Morris, when appealed to, decided with Wilford against Mrs Lennox and Aunt Betsy, knowing how unequal he was to the task which would devolve on him in case of a bridal party at the farmhouse In coee would take place, but congratulating hi of jealousy, it would have disappeared; Morris was so see except Katy's happiness But Wilford did not observe closely, and failed to detect the hopeless look in Morris' eyes, or the whiteness which settled about his ht to entertain his guest Those were dark hours for Morris Grant, and he was glad when at the end of the second day Wilford's visit expired, and he saw him driven from Linwood around to the far words to Katy and then go back to New York