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Katy did not faint nor weep She was past all that, but her face was like a piece of marble, and her eyes were like those of the hunted fahen the chase is at its height and escape impossible

"Wilford would come back if he knew just hoas," the father said, "but the trouble is where to find hi to me, as I presume he will in a day or so, and perhaps it will be as well to wait till then What the plague--who is ringing that bell enough to break the wire?" he added, as a sharp, rapid ring echoed through the house and was answered by Esther "It's ht the sound of her voice asking if Mrs Cameron had returned "You stay here while Ienerally!"

Katy tried to protest, but he was halfway down the stairs, and in a moment more ith his wife, who had come around armed and equipped to censure Katy as the cause of Wilford's disappearance, and to deht she pretended to spend at No ---- Fifth Avenue But the lady who cae fro for fifteen led with startling truths and bitter denunciations against herself and her boy, sank into a chair, pale and tre

But her husband was not through with her yet He had reserved the bitterest drop for the last, and co close to her he said: "And who think you the woman is--this Genevra, Wilford's and your divorced wife? You were too proud to acknowledge an apothecary's daughter! See if you like better a dressmaker, a nurse to Katy's baby, Marian Hazelton!"

He whispered the last name, and with a shriek the lady fainted Mr Cameron would not summon a servant, and as there was no water in the roo the sash scraped fro snohich had been falling since noon With this he brought his wife back to consciousness, and then marked out her future course

"I knohat is in your mind," he said "You would like to have all the blah your means one breath of suspicion falls on her I'll _bla at_ out the whole story of Genevra Then see who is censured On the other hand, if you hold your tongue, and h thick and thin, acting as if you would like to s her whole, I'll say nothing of this Genevra Is it a bargain?"