it best not to tell her. Latterly she has found it
out, and it is having a very extraordinary effect upon her."

Mrs. Lennox was too much afraid of the man addressing her so haughtily
to make him any reply, and so she only wept softly as she bent to kiss
her child, still talking of Genevra and the empty grave at St. Mary's,
where she once sat down.

And this was all Mrs. Lennox knew until alone with Helen, who had heard
from Morris all he knew of the sad story except the part relating to
Marian Hazelton. His sudden journey to New York was thus accounted for,
and Helen explained it to her mother as well as she could, advising her
to say nothing of it either to Wilford or Mrs. Cameron, as it was quite
as well for them not to know it yet. Many messages Helen brought to her
cousin from his patients, and Morris felt it was his duty to go to them
for a day or so at least.

"You have other physicians here," he said to Wilford, who objected to
his leaving. "Dr. Craig will do as well as I."

Wilford admitted that he might; but it was with a sinking heart that he
saw Morris depart, and then went to Katy, who began to grow very
restless and uneasy, bidding him go away and send Dr. Morris back. It
was in vain that they administered the medicine just as Morris had
directed. Katy grew constantly worse, until Mrs. Lennox asked that
another doctor be called. But to this Wilford did not listen. Fear of
exposure and censure were stronger than his fear for Katy's life, which
seemed balancing upon a thread as that long night and the next day went
by. Three times Wilford telegraphed for Morris, and it was with
unfeigned joy that he welcomed him back at last, and heard that he had
so arranged his business now as to stay with Katy while the danger
lasted.

With a monotonous sameness the days now came and went, people still
shunning the house as if the plague was there. Once Bell Cameron came
around to call on Helen, holding her breath as she passed through the
hall, and never asking to go near Katy's room. Two or three times, too,
Mrs. Banker's carriage stood at the door, and Mrs. Banker herself came
in, seeming surprised when she met Helen and appearing so cool and
distant that the latter could scarcely keep back her tears as she
guessed the cause. Mark never came, but from the window Helen saw him
riding by with Juno, who kept her face turned toward him, as if in close
and confidential chat.

"They were engaged," Esther said, adding