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"You can't! Why not?" Wilford asked, and Katy replied: "I've never been in so much company as I shall et that it was Lent?"

"You are getting very good to think a few days' visit in the country will harm you," Wilford replied; "besides that, neither Mrs Mills, nor the Beverleys, nor Lincolns, are church people, and cannot, of course, sympathize in this superstitious fancy"

Katy looked up in astonishment, for never before had she heard Wilford speak thus of the Fast which his whole fah Katy turned away, knowing how useless it was to reason with hiave vent to a passionate flood of tears as she wondered how it all would end For some reason Wilford had set his heart upon the visit to Mrs Mills, a pleasant, fascinating woman, who liked Katy very reat deal of pleasure,all her plans with a direct reference to Mrs Careat disappointo, and as opposition to his as always useless, the close of the next day found Katy at Mrs Mills' handso the broad river and the blue mountains beyond Wilford ith her; he had co to the city in theNow that he had acco Katy with unwonted kindness and wondering why he hated so to leave her, while she, too, clung to hi was only for two days, for this was Thursday, and he was to return on Saturday, but in the hearts of both there was that dark foreboding which is so often a sure precursor of evil Twice Wilford turned back to kiss his wife, feeling tempted once to tell her he was sorry for his jealousy and distrust, but such confession was hard for hiainst which Katy's face was pressed as she watched hi ould be ere she looked on hi Chitty as usual when Mr Cameron came in from his trip up the river Since Katy's last call at the office Tom had been haunted with her face as it looked when Wilford's cold greeting fell on her ear, and after a private conference with Mattie, who listened eagerly to every iteard to Katy, he had come to the conclusion that his employer was a brute, and that his as not as happy as it was his duty to make her