98 BE TRUE.

« And I’m sure,” said Laura, “ that
I shall love you, you are so like my
mother.”

«| will try to be like her,” replied
Mrs. Elmore ; “I will try, my dear, to
live as your mother lived, that I may
die as she died.”

That night Mrs. Elmore held a long
private conference with Mrs. Win-
gate. Several times during the tete-a-
tete there was something that sound-
ed much like the voice of a very
angry woman. Weare not prepared
to say by what influence Mrs. Elmore
was able to control the outpourings
of wrath, but it is certain that the
next morning found Mrs. Wingate
and her daughters quite as obse-
quious as ever.

To the villagers generally Mrs.
Elmore was quite unknown; she