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There was a mistake; Katy had missed the train, she said to her ht But Katy had not missed the train, as was indicated by the letter which Uncle Ephrai on old Whitey's neck while she read aloud the attempt at an explanation which Katy had hurried written, a stain on the paper where a tear had fallen attesting her distress at the bitter disappointment

"Wilford did not know of the other letter," she said, "and had o back with him to New York, inasmuch as the house was already opened, and the servants there wanting ahead; besides that, Wilford had been absent so long that he could not possibly stop at Silverton hi without her, even for a few days, there was no alternative but for her to go with him on the boat directly to New York I am sorry, oh, so sorry, but indeed I am not to blame," she added, in conclusion, and this was the nearest approach there was to an admission that anybody was to bla even Uncle Ephrai away the ht for naught

"I ain, never God grant that it's the Cameron pride, not hers, that kept her from us," the old man said, as on the hay he knelt down and prayed that Katy had not learned to despise the hoain," see opinion at Silverton, wheredoubt at times as to whether she really wished to come or not If she did, it seemed easy of accomplishment to those who knew not how perfect and co the hich governed hers Could they have seen the look in Katy's face when she first understood that she was not going to Silverton, their hearts would have bled for the thwarted creature who fled up the stairs to her own room, where Esther found her twentyupon the bed, her face as white as ashes, and her hands clinched so tightly that the nails left e that the poor child should faint--indeed, it was only natural that nature should give way after so ," Mrs Ca to repent of his decision, and who but for that reht have revoked it