Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1883-07-04
Her Face Her Fortune.

Now and then a girl becomes an ac'
tual belle. Ella Lowe was actually
belle. She was very handsome anC
the only child Of a millionairs. She
dressed perfectly and had every posi-
bic accomplishment.
When she entered a room she some
how threw all the other girls into sha-
dow. A crowd gathered about her
chair, and recognized beauties ponteo
in Indignation at their neglect.
Whether she would baye been 50
much admired had she not been an heir
ess, it would have been hard TO say; but
she had, on an average, twenty offers
Of marriage since she came out, and
had not yet accepted any one as her
chosen husband, though she was three
and-twentY. Perhaps the pleasure
she took in her bellehood was too
great.
At last, however, almost on her
twenty-fourth birthday, che met Mr..
Evan Plantaganet, a Young exquisite
Of the aesthetic type, and urged on by
bis mother and all bis many sisters,
engaged herself 10 him.with her fathers
consent.
When she did this, one young beart
sorely ached-that of her far-away
cousin Roderick Blair, physician new
hedg cd, who lived with his mother in
pretty country town in Devonshire.
He paled and moped, and his mother
knew well what troubled him.
why did you never speak 10 Ella "
she said. How DO you know she could
not haye liked you?'
She was too rich, mother said Rod
erick, gloomily. 1 could not seem TO
be fortune. hunter. l would not owe
so much 10 a WIFE,
Not if size loved you p asked the
mother.
But the son would haye no more
talk about the matter. The girl meyer
could have been his. He himself did
not understand why he should feel more
unhappy than before. Perhaps it was
because, as his mother said, be did not
know but that she might have liked
him.
And Mr.. Evan Plantaganet exhibit
ed his prize 10 public, and his mother
and sisters boasted Of his engagement
to the daughter Of Mr.. Lowe, the well
known milllonaire.'
Suddculy there came a crash
startling piece of news petrifed the
fashionable world. 1t was uttered by |
every tongue and published IN every
newspaper.
The millionaire Lowe had embarked |
n speculation, and bis millions were
gone.
The great house was closed. Mr..
Lowe and his daughter went to live on
an upper floor, in plain street, and the
mother of Evan Plantaganet declared
herself shocked at the old mans decep-
ion. In fact, the young man himself
horri6ed at the situation Of his
prospective father-in-law, and having |
irawled out sundry reproacbes, was
,fIered his freedom, which he took at
,nce.
Ella was free and poor. Roderick
BLAIR, in bis country home, heard the
Iews. A few hours afterwards be was
t Lowe's door.
He found Ella as bright as ever, in
act she had long since grown weary OF
, 'lantaganet and bis affections. She
yore a pretty dtess aud smiled and
hated gally. The humble rooms were
,leasant and well-arranged. Never
ad Koderick passed pleasanter eve
ing. He returned home full Of hope
nd happiness.
But though lie felt himself honored
" the privilege of visiting IN that hum
lie abode, most OF Elias admirers aud
II her fashionable lady friends, but
bree, gradually dropped her. She was
10 longer belle.
When she accepted an invitation she