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All the next day Wilford was very busy arranging his affairs, and a casual looker-on would have seen nothing unusual in the face always so grave and cold But to To at his employer's sudden activity, it was terrible in its dark, hard, unrelenting expression, while even his , looked at hi the conversation held with her the previous day respecting Katy

She was still at Yonkers, Wilford said, and his voice was very natural as he added: "I aht with Beverley and Lincoln, whose wives are also at Mrs Mills'; quite a gay party we shall make," and he tried to smile, but it was a sickly effort and e

"What ails you, Wilford?" his , so pray don't look atso a secret, and it alood-by to hisafter him in the darkness until the sound of his footsteps died away upon the pavement There was a fire in his room and Wilford sat down to write the brief note he would leave, for when the night shut down again he would not be there He could not feel that the parting from Katy would be final, because he did not believe she had sinned as he counted sin, but she certainly preferred another to himself; she had deceived him and played the successful hypocrite This was Wilford's accusation against his wife; this for what she must be punished, until such tiive and take her back as heto Morris, or to the farmhouse either, for much as she was attached to her family, he believed she would shrink fro rather the luxuries of her city ho there as long as she liked; he would arrange that for her, feeling hi her permission to invite her ainst scandalous remarks Mrs Lennox and Helen too should cooodness should abate he seized his pen and wrote: "DEAR KATY: Your own conscience will tell you whether you are worthy of being addressed as 'Dear,' but I have called you thus so often that I cannot bring myself to any other form Do my words startle you, and will you be sorry when you read this and find that I aone, that you are free from the husband you do not love, the husband whoht you did? I trusted you once, and now I do not bla You are easily influenced You are very susceptible to flattery, as was proven by your career at Saratoga and Newport I had no suspicion of you then, but now that I know you better, I see that it was not all childish siraciously upon those who sought your favor You are a coquette, Katy, and the greater one because of that semblance of artlessness which is the perfection of art This, however, I rant act, which, if it is not a proof of faithlessness, certainly borders upon it You knohat I refer, or if you do not, ask your sued saint, your cohten you; he will not wonder at ious and otherwise; but if you ever wish me to return, avoid him as you would shun a deadly poison Until I countermand the order I wish you to reht for you Helen and your eneral oversight of your affairs; I shall send hiood-by I am very calm as I write this, because I know you have deceived ard to Genevra, but in a deeper sense, which touches a tenderer point andto brave the talk , no one will know until you have waited and looked in vain for ht-will join their wives as I hoped yesterdayto joinahere--it matters not to you So farewell