Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-01-20
THE MILLIONAIRE's DAUGHTER

TdE mlLLlUNAlhES DAuuhlEh.
Now and then a girl becomes al
actual belle. Ella Lowe was actual,
belle. She was very handsome
and the only child of a millionaire
She dressed perfectly, and had every
possible accomplishment. WheI
She entered room she somehow
threw all the girls into shadow. A
crowd gathered about her chair, ant
recognized beauties pouted in indig
nation at their neglect. Whethe,
she would have been so much ad
mired had she not been an heiress
it would have been hard to say; bu
she had, on an average, twenty offer.
of marriage since she "came out
and had not yet accepted any ono as
her chosen husband, though she was
three-and-twenty. Perhaps the pleas
ure she took in her belle-hood wa'
too great.
At last, however, almost on hel
twenty-fourth birthday, she met Mr.
Evan Plantaganet, young exquis
ite of the aesthetic type, and urged OF
by his mother and all his many sis
ters, engaged herself to him with hel
fathers consent. When she die
this, one young heart ached sorely-
that of her far-away cousin, Roder
ick Blair, a physician new-fedged
who lived with his mother in {
pretty, country town on the Hudson
He paled and moped, and his mother
knew we'll what troubled him.
"Why did you never speak t.
Ella?" she said. SHOW do you know
she could not have liked you?"
"She was too rich, mother" said
Roderick, gloomily. II could mo-
seem to be fortune hunter.
would not owe so much to a wife"
"Not if she loved your" asked th'
mother.
But the son would have no Nor,
talk about the matter The CIR
never could have been his. He him
self did not understand why ht
should feel more unhappy than be
fore. Perhaps it was because, as hi
mother said, he did not know bu
that she might have liked him.
And MIR. Evan Plantaganet exhibit
ed his price in public, and his
mother and sisters boasted of his en-
gagement to ''the daughter of MI
Lowe, the we'll known millionaire"
Suddenly there came a crash; {
startling piece of news petrified tn,
fashionable world. 1t was uttered
by every tongue, and published il
every paper.
The millionaire Lowe had embarked
in speculation, and his millions wer'
gone.
The great house was closed. Mr.
Lowe and his daughter went to iv'
on an upper floor, in a plain street
and the mother of Evan Plantagane
declared herself shocked at the ole
mans deception. In fact, the young
man himself was Mortified at the sit
uation of his prospective father-in
law, and having drawled out sundry
reproaches, was offered his freedom
which he took at once.
Ella was free, and poor. Rodericl
Blair, in his country home, heard tn,
news A few hours afterwards b.
was at Mr. loves door.
He found Ella as bright as ever
in fact, she had long since growl
weary of Plantaganet and his affecta
tions. She wore pretty dress ani
smiled and chatted gayly. The hum
BILE rooms were pleasant and we'll
arranged. Never had Roderick passet
pleasanter evening. He returned
home full of hope and happiness.
But though he felt himself honoret
by the privilege Of visiting in tina
humble abode, most of Elias ad
mirers, and all her fashionable LADY
friends but three, gradually dropped
her. She was no longer a belle
When she accepted an invitation sh.
found herself treated like other girls
The lesson was salutary. If hel
vanity was hurt, her good sense wa
improved. ~
One pleasant winter day She nc
cepted the hand of Koderick Blair
1t might be a long engagement, fo
both were poor, but they trustet
each other.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Blair was de
lighted. She came down often ant
brought all the village news
Amongst other things, description
of the splendid new house ricl
man, whose name she did not know
was building on the very next piec
of land to that on which her owl
brown cottage stood.
It was a marvel of perfection
thoroughly well-appointed in ever,
way, and It was now being furnished
from roof to basement in the mos
elegant manner. The furnishin,
did not come at first, of course. In
deed, 1t took six months to arrive a
that point. And "a stained-glas
window in the hall and conserva
tory thoroughly stocked, brough
the old lady down on visit.
Mr. Ixnwa waa alwava intoraata1 II