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"I won't pull that nub," he said, glancing at the silver knob "I'll go down to the kitchen door, as like enough they've coly Esther, who chanced to be in the basement, was startled by a heavy knock, and was startled still more at the tall, white-haired man who addressed her as "Sis," and asked if "Miss Ca for e, and with her mind full of possible news from Wilford, she ran hastily down the basement stairs, and with a loud scream of joy threw herself into Uncle Ephraim's arms, an act which so astonished Phillips that she dropped the dish of soup she was preparing for the dinner table, the greasy liquid bespattering Katy's dress, and bringing her to a sense of where she was, and that she should not be there

"Co Uncle Ephrai him to the parlor, while the first tears she had shed since she knew she was deserted rained in torrents over her face

"What is it, Katy-did? IWhat has happened?" Uncle Ephraily around her, Katy told hi what she should do

"Do?" the old man repeated "Go home with me to your own folks until he co agin' him, but if it was to do over I would forbid the banns That chap has misused you the ay You need not deny it, for it's writ all over your face," he continued, as Katy tried to stop hireat injustice done her, she would not have Wilford blamed

He was her husband still, and she had loved him so fondly that, whether worthy or not of her love, she could not turn from him so soon

"I wrote to Helen yesterday, so they will be prepared forglad when dinner was announced

Leading him to the table, she presented hihty stare were lost on the old nity at the table, and bowing his white head so reverently as he asked the first blessing which had ever been said at that table, except as Helen or Morris had breathed a prayer of thanks for the bounty provided