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As it had been at Saratoga, so it was at Newport Urged on by Mrs Caed into the , until Wilford hi her once in her rooetting to release her until after the departure at evening of soe, whose attentions to the Ocean House belle had been reeable to hi of the door--and a great oversight in him not to have rey; and Katy, with no suspicion of the truth, laughed ers, who shrugged their shoulders ht be well if , handsome wives were locked into their rooh flattered, caressed and ad herself much credit at Newport, but after Wilford there was no one to raise a warning voice, until Mark Ray came down for a few days' respite fro charge of the business which belonged as much to Wilford as to himself But Wilford had a wife; it was ued; his time would come by and by And so he had reust, when he appeared suddenly at the Ocean House one night when Katy, in her airy robes and childlike si hearts by the score Like others, Mark was charmed, and not a little proud, for Katy's sake, to see her thus appreciated; but when one day's experience had shown hiiven hi how hard it would be for her to come out of that sea of dissipation as pure and spotless as she went in

"If I were her brother I would warn her that her present career, though very delightful now, is not one upon which she will look back with pleasure when the excitement is over," he said to himself; "but if Wilford is satisfied it is not fortoto himself; but as often as he said it there came up before him a pale, anxious face, shaded with Helen Lennox's bands of hair, and Helen Lennox's voice whispered to him: "Save Katy, for my sake;" and so next day, when Mark found hiuests were at the beach, he questioned her of her life at Saratoga and Newport, and gradually, as he talked, there crept into Katy's heart a suspicion that he was not altogether pleased with her account, or hat he had seen of her since his arrival