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"Write to her, Marian--write to-day--now, before I go," Katy continued, clasping Marian's hand, with an expression which, ht else won Marian Hazelton's consent to a plan which seee

"Yes, I rite," she answered; "I will tell Ao I'll trust baby with you Say, Marian, will you take care of reat, wistful, pleading eyes looking so earnestly into hers; but Marianto New London to open a shop, and if she did she should board with Mrs Hubbell, and so be with the child She would decide when the answer caive; but it was enough to change the whole nature of Katy's feelings, and her face looked bright and cheerful as she tripped down the stairway, talking to Helen of what seemed to both like a direct interposition of Providence, and what she was sure would please Wilford quite as well as the farmhouse up the river

"Surely he will yield to lad of an opportunity to make some concessions, and still in the main have his oay, Wilford raised no objection to the plan as communicated to him by Katy, when, at an earlier hour than usual, he came home to dinner, drawn thither by a remembrance of the face which had haunted hi to both wife and sister--a new book for the one, and for the other a set of handsome coral, which he had heard her adraceful, winning manner he kneell how to assume, and with the harmony of his household once more restored, felt hi baby to New London On the whole, it ht, for it was farther away, and Katy could not be tiring herself with driving out every few days, and keeping herself constantly uneasy and excited The distance between New York and New London was the best feature of the whole; and he wondered Katy had not thought of it as an objection But she had not, and but for the pain when she re separation, she would have been very happy that evening, listening with Wilford and Helen to the opera of "Nor so keenly with the poor distracted mother