If ever she finds out that thing you'll lose her, and it will serve you right." "She knows it now," said Mrs.Comstock icily, "and she'll be home to-night just as usual." "Well, you are a brave woman if you dared put a girl of Elnora's make through what she suffered yesterday, and will suffer again to-day, and let her know you did it on purpose.

I admire your nerve.

But I've watched this since Elnora was born, and I got enough.

Things have come to a pass where they go better for her, or I interfere." "As if you'd ever done anything but interfere all her life! Think I haven't watched you?
Think I, with my heart raw in my breast, and too numb to resent it openly, haven't seen you and Mag Sinton trying to turn Elnora against me day after day?
When did you ever tell her what her father meant to me?
When did you ever try to make her see the wreck of my life, and what I've suffered?
No indeed! Always it's been poor little abused Elnora, and cakes, kissing, extra clothes, and encouraging her to run to you with a pitiful mouth every time I tried to make a woman of her." "Kate Comstock, that's unjust," cried Sinton.

"Only last night I tried to show her the picture I saw the day she was born.