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stem to me for just one minute. Let

ing more to do with you. Go to your
Kitty! Oh, don't tell mel She's been
IN your Office, how many times? And
and"
"Well, what more? Let us have the
whole charge"
ooh, didn't you-didn't you only
yesterday, when she got out of the
coach, didn't you-oh, you false-heart-
ed MANI.
Didn't Iwhat, Josey?"
"Don't call me Josey! Don't ever
dare to do it again! Oh, you took
Kitty in your arms"
mo, no, deny that in TOTO" broke
in Henry, smiling in spite ofhis efforts
to the contrary.
swell, you-you kissed her! So
there!"
"My dear Josephine, to that I plead
guilty"
''You-you do" gasped the stricken
girl, utterly COMPOUNDED by the man s
impervious audacity. She struggled
up from the blow, and pointed to the
door
"There!-there, sir,is the door! Go!
and never let Inc look upon your
face again. Nota word. Ihaveheard
enough. Cor
He gazed upon her for a briefspace-
q few secondhand then with some
thing very much like smile upon his
frank and honest face, he turned and
left the room-and left the house, say
ing to himself as he went:
"Poor child! l will not blame her
If she did not love me truly and well,
she would not feel so deeply"
He knew very we'll who had made the
mischief. A certain maiden, who had
sought in vain to win his smiles-who
had thrown herself almost into his
arms repeteadly and whom he had been
forced to repulse-had seen his fair
client -alight at the door of his Office,
and had very likely, seen him kiss her;
for he had done that thing; and had
done it most lovingly.
Meanwhile an unhappy maiden sat
all alone in the great drawing-room of
Judge Archer's (he had been Judge of
probate) imposing residence She had
never in all her life been so unhappy
before.
AS she called back the face of her
lover, and again, in fancy, heard the
rich music of his voice, she could not
believe that he was traitor.
Could he be false to her? Oh, she
would not believe it!
"And yet-yet-that kiss-Kate and
Belle both saw it; or Kate did, at any
rate. And he acknowledged it, too!
Oh, that is too much. If he had q sis
ter, orcousin, or anything of that kind
but he has not-he has told me so
himself"
Thus sat the maiden of the crushed
and bleeding heart, buried beneath an
avalanche OF horror and despair; hor-
ror-stricken at the perfidy other lover,
and in despair because he would
never come back to her-never any
more-thus pale and shivering
her father and mother entered the
room.
They looked at her in wonder and
alarm.
"Josephine.-my dear child! what in
the world is the meaning ofthis? What
has happeneds"
So spake the judge, with a hand laid
tenderly upon his daughters head land
his voice betraying an emotion deep
and fervent.
She did not answer him. She only
bent her head lower, and sobbed more
violently. Then her mother spoke,
but without the depth of emotion
that had characterized the speech of
her father:
Josephine, this smoothing but low
er's quarrel; and all on your part, I'll
be bound. You've been doing some
thing foolish"
The girl was upon her feet upon the
instant, her hands clenched, her teeth
set, and her eyes flashing.
"A lovers quarrel, she gasped. "0n
my part. Oh, you don't know-you
don't know what the-the-wretchh has
been doing. Heis false! false! false!'
"But, my dear child, what has he
been doing?"
"He's done enough. I am not his
has followed him here-his sweet Kitty
Coryden, and he Rugged her-and-and
kissed heron the very sidewalk
"His what?-his who?" asked the
judge, choking and gasping as he spoke.
ellis Kitty Coryden!" snapped the
maiden with terrible indebtedness.
The effect upon her father was mar
velous. He sank down into chair,
his face pulled and purple, and when
he could catch his breath he burst in
to an uproarious fit of laughter; and
he was laughing with the tears stream
ing down his cheeks, when the door
communicating with the front hall
was unceremoniously opened, and
Enter-Henry Gilman, Esq. leading
be the hand a lady-for lady she GER
tainly was-a mild-eyed, sweet-faced
woman. petite and plump, a wealth of
golden brown tresses escaping from be-
meath q jaunty little hat of lace and
ostrich feathers--in short, a woman
whom anybody might have loved at
sight, for she was not only very beau
tiful, but she looked good, and true,
and brave.
She was certainly older than was
Harry Gilman; but, then, many q
match had been made between parties
more wildly separated by age than were
those two.
However, Henry led the lady for
ward and presented her first to the
host and hostess.
| "Judge Archer and Mrs. Archer, I
have the pleasure of introducing to
you my mother! And mother good
and true she has been to me-"
| The judge had recovered himself Inn
mediately upon the entrance of the
new Corners, and he was not at all sur
prised by the introduction.
Henry had spoken with him on the
subject of finding house such as his
mother would like to live in, for he
had persuaded her to come and make
her home near him, if not with him.
Mrs. Archer was surprised, for she
had not heard that Henry was expect
ing his mothers arrival, and she was
furthermore surprised upon beholding
in that mother a woman 50 young and
80 beautiful; but she manifested none
Of surprise in her greeting, which was
warm and ardent.
It remained for poor Josephine to be
dHmbfoupded. Henry had often spo-
ken Of his mother; had told how good
| she had ALWAYS been ia him: how she