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CHAPTER ii.

The evening of the party has arrived
The elegant mansion of Mr.. Smith is bril-.
liant with gas light and lovely women.
and none more lovely than Katie Smith
and Celia Harris.
Rich music Ellis the dancing room. fai-
~ forms glide through the dance. The
light feet-fall kee ping time to the music.
while young bearts, filled with joyous
ness, beat lightly with emotions cores
Pohding TO the surrounding scene. None
are happier than Celia and Katie. Celia
! is particularly selfsatisfed. for she has
been introduced 10. and danced with the
most elegant looking gentlemen in the
room, and she had overheard one say as
he asked Carrie TO introduce him. Where
did you find that new star, have not
seen her before, you know one gets tired
of meeting the same faces, no matter how
lovely. But. she is superbly beautiful -
Her dark eyes fash like diamonds, and
what qusenly air she has Carrie in-
troduced him as Mr.. Pinkeron. He ask.
ed her to dance the next quadrile with
him. which she did, and while going
through the dance. she had observed that
he not only wore u diamond ring and pin.
but his vest buttons were gold. set with
diamonds. This was conclusive evidence
of his great wealth. and from the CON-
pliments he addressed her. and from the
expression Of admiration she had over.
heard. she felt assured she had made a
conquest. and her Imagination was al.
ready picturing ,he display she would
make when she became Mrs. PInkerton.
Katie. TOO. had been dancing most o.:
the evening. 1t was near the supper hour
the two girls were seated near a window,
apart from the company, and Celia is re-
peating to Katie the compliments she has
received during the evening. who obser,-
ed Carrie on the opposite side of the hall
in conversation with gentleman whom
they had me: on the Avenue. From the
frequency of his glances towards them.
it was evident he was speaking uf them.
See. Kate. there is the gentle we
met on the Avenue the other morning: I
expect he is asking where she found us.
or if she condescended to ask her seam
stresses to her party:
'Oh. well. she will tell him we are la
dies. ard you will be placed in your true
light before him. As for me, would 81
soon think me sesmstress as not, for
estimate people by their qualities. not BY
their occupation. fully believe in the
sentiment of the poet. expressed in the
following couplet-
'Honor and shame from no condition rise.
Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
have known persons who earned sup
port with the needle, who were as intel.
ligent, refined and ladylike as any whom
we meet here: and If they Ito not mingle
with fashionable society. it is not because
they are unfiite. for it. but because they
have not lime TO spend thus. for the leis-
ure m0ments they have they devote to
reading Tor mental cultivation. And |
respect them for it,
I'll declare, Kate. you have the queer
est notions; believe you will never un.
derstand the distinctions in society,"
Ere Katie could reply. Carrie present.
ed the gentleman with whom she had
been conversing, saying to her usin. as
she did so. Mr.. Elsington is from Alton.
and when he learned that you were a ma.
tive Of Illinois, he said he felt that Won
were almos: an acquaintance.
That is true. Miss Smith, the very fact
of having lived IN the same State. gives
that feeling here. where meet all strsn.
gers"
DO you remain long in the city, ask.