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T will take you to my own dressmaker,” she said. “She will tell ug just what you need, and we will have her make it.” So a private consultation was held with the fashionable modisie. A handsome black satin was advised, and Ruby enjoyed herself hugely in purchasing it, together swith some other really nice adornments for the approaching festival, “Father ig going to have anew suit, too made to order at Wanamaker’s” Mrs Ruggles confidentially informed Ruby ; and the latter could hardly wait to witness the astonishment which sho knew this new departure on the part of the farmer and his wife would occasion both Estelle and Edmund Carpenter. That gentleman was still very marked in his attention for Ruby, but she seemed to feel more and more of aversion toward him, and shunned his socioty upon every possible occasion when she could do so without actual rudeness, Te week that fallowed the arrived of her ueats was a very [usy qn pleasant one, or she took them to all the points of interest in the city, visiting churches, art museums, the Mint, picture-gallerics, etc., during the day, and going to some concert or theatre in the evening. Walter had called soon after their arrival, and had been invited to make one of the party whenever he could spare an even- ing, his was a tomplation and privilege he could nob resist, and he was thus thrown much into Ruby’s coveted society, where pe wae made to icel both welcome and use- ful. “You will be with us here to-morrow evening,” Ruby said to him on the night | before the 2Ist, as he was takingwkiscdensa