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"I was now alone in the world, for the aunt hom my childhood was passed died soon after my father, and so I went at last to learn a trade on the Isle of Wight, e from thence to New York, with the determination in my rebellious heart that some time, when it would cut the deepest, I would show myself to the proud Camerons, whom I so cordially hated This was before God had found me, or rather before I had listened to the still, ss away, and made me feel kindly toward the mother and sisters when I saw theayly by Wilford was soht of hih reatest shock I ever had ca e with you Those were terrible days that I passed at the far on your bridal _trousseau_; and soht it more than I could bear Had you been other than the little, loving, confiding, trustful girl you were, I must at some time have disclosed the whole, and told that you would not be the first who had stood at the altar with Wilford But pity for you, whom I knew loved him so much, kept me silent, and you became his wife

"Of what has happened since you know--except, indeed, how hard it was sometimes for poor, weak human nature to see you as happy as you were at first, and then contrast my lot with yours I loved your baby almost as much as if it had beento bind me to the North, and so I caood; at least, I was here to care for Wilford, and that is a sufficient reward for all the toil which falls to the lot of a hospital nurse I shall stay until the war is ended, and then go I know not where It will not be best for us to h we et the past, or that one was the lawful, the other the divorced, wife of the same man I have loved you, Katy Cameron, for your uniform kindness shown to the poor dressmaker I shall always love you, but our paths lie widely apart Your future I can predict, but mine God only knows"