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"Yes, I have been there--to her home, I mean," Mark rejoined, and Juno continued: "Only for a h You should have stayed, like Will, to appreciate it fully I wish you could hear him describe the feather beds in which he slept--that is, describe them before he decided to take Katy; for after that he was chary of his reed into hair, for what he knew or cared"

Mark hesitated a ht, and have tested that feather bed, but found nothing disparaging to Helen, as as much a lady in the far scorn on Juno's face as she replied: "As much a lady as here! Thatsince you took to visiting Silverton so frequently--becoht?"

There was nothe jealousy which betrayed itself into every tone of Juno's voice as she stood before Mark a fit picture of the enraged goddess whose naed her h, this Miss Lennox seeirl, and is admirably fitted, I think, for the position she is to fill--that of a country physician's wife," and in the black eyes there was a wicked sparkle as Juno saw that herquickly at her and asking if she referred to Dr Grant

"Certainly; I io as we ht have been our Katy, but was mistaken I think the doctor and Miss Lennox well adapted to each other--it is an excellent match"

There was for a moment a dull, heavy pain at Mark's heart, caused by that little item of information which made him so unco he could recall of Morris had a tendency to strengthen the belief Nothing could he ether as they had been, without other congenial society, and nothing could be ht, as he walked listlessly through Mrs Reynolds' parlors, seeing only one face, and that the face of Helen Lennox, with the lily in her hair, just as it looked when she had tied the apron about his neck and laughed at his appearance

Helen was not the ideal which in his boyhood Mark had cherished of the one as to be his wife, for that was of a more brilliant, beautiful woman, a woman more like Juno, ho her so herself the favored one; but ideals change as years go on, and Helen Lennox hadbelle of his acquaintance