Page 137 (1/1)

"I beg pardon for this assault upon you," the stranger said; and then, turning to the boy, he continued: "It's all right, you need not wait"

With a chirrup and a blow the horse started forward, and thedown the road ere Helen had recovered her surprise at recognizing Mark Ray, who shook the raindrops fro her his hand said in reply to her involuntary exclaht it was Katy" "Shall I infer, then, that I ahingly into hers "Business had brought hie," he said, "and it was his intention to take the cars that afternoon for New York, but having been detained longer than he expected, and not liking the looks of the hotel arrangements, he had decided to presuht at Linwood But," and again his eyes looked straight at Helen, "it rained so hard and the light fro that I ventured to stop, so here I a, if convenient; if not, I will findin this pleasant familiarity which won Uncle Ephrai man stay, as did Aunt Hannah and Mrs Lennox, who now for the first ti himself to the circumstances around him, Mark did so noith so much ease and courteousness as to astonish Helen, and partly thaw the reserve she had assumed when she found the visitor was fro Mrs Ca as Helen explained that she was coe Wilford wrote decidedly that he should be in New York to-h, he does not intend hiht suddenly lifting fro to entertain the for, would spoil all her pleasure

Thus at her ease on this point, she grewcalico, or her hair co her that severe look which Morris had said was unbecolossy, and even Sybil Grandon would have given her best dia heavy coil of hair bound so many times around the back of Helen's head, ornaeranium leaf, with a white and scarlet blossom, was fastened just below the ear, and on the side where Mark could see it best, adement of the hair in his ad so industriously over the hich Helen had resu, nor yet e Uncle Ephraim's socks, a task which Helen always did, and on that particular night Helen kneas not delicate employment and there was a moment's hesitancy as she wondered what Mark would think--then with a gri hi needle, and as a kind of penance of the flash of pride in which she had indulged, selected froliest sock she could find, stretching out the huge fracture at the heel to its utood will, while Mark, with a co her She kneas looking at her, and her cheeks were growing very red, while her hatred of hi, when he said, abruptly: "You follow my mother's custohts"