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very much to kiss them and smooth

said Mrs. Tremaine; "a lady should al
ways be glovedin a ballroom. Besides,
it is a bad habit. Had you not been
of removing your gloves you
would not have lost your valuable ring
and the pretty paris glove when o
were here before"
ION gave a great start and his heart
began to throb violently.
ut was an exceedingly strange cir
cumstance," said Mrs. Tremaine, as she
turned toward Selden. ga very valua-
bic diamond ring was lost here by Belle.
We offered large rewards for it and did
everything in ourrower for its recovery
but could find o trace of it. It
must have dropped from her finger
when she removed her glove, which she
also lost. Both the glove and the ring
We're sent to her from Paris as a seven
teenth year birthday present, and she
managed to lose them on the night of
the same day on which she received
them.
Tom was entirely overcome with this
disclosure, and could scarcely summon
up courage to answer, and to his great
relief a gentleman came up and carried
off Mrs. Tremaine for the next dance.
Tom was alone with the object of his
romantic attachment. What a puerile
passion it had been compared with the
love that was now Juggling at his heart
"a love not inspired by the possession
of the dainty glove nor of the jeweled
RAG. He might have worn them next
to his heart forever and yet never have
known the exquisite feelings aroused by
the h~alf-veiled yet thrilling glance
that met his from Bella's soft voilet- blue
eyes. He could not tear himself away
from her, and yet he was afraid to stay,
lest he should brighten her by b~etraying
the violence of q passion with which she
had inspired him.
And Bella, she felt an indefnable con-
idence in Tom, a feeling of infinite
friendship for him, as if parting from
him would be a cruelty. Poor little
girl! 1t was the first dawn of love in
her pure young heart.
The evening had passed too quickly
away. The ladies were fast disappear.
ing, Mrs. Tremaine, leaning on Harry
Evelyn's arm, came to ummon Bella
w Nv lOSoluS-1OO1
1t was with difidence yet with o GER
tain instructive confidence hat Tom
drew Bella's arm within his own as she
came down from the dressing room in
her wraps to escort her to the waiting
carriage; her eyes dropped beneath the
intense warmth and love of Toms gaze
as he pressed her hand at parting, and
bushes sutfused her face as the carriage
drove away from the door.
And now as week succeeded week,
Tom Selden was never found ut Maiden
unless business kept him there, for the
sweet young Bella Tremaine was so
lonesome without him at Westmoreland.
The winter passed quickly away, and
in the ensuing spring Tom was offered
a very lucrative position in Washington.
but if he accepted it he would be forced
to reside there. Here q difficulty pre-.
scented itself. Tom and Bella had be.
come so strongly attached to each 9th.
err that a separation was not to be
thought of, and yet the position was too
advantageous to be sacrificed. One
evening when they were alone in the
drawing-room Tom asked Rella how
they were to solve this problem. The
little maiden blushed and hung down
her head, but finally accepted Toms
proposition that they should bemarried
and live in Washington together, in or
der that they never again need enter
tain o fear of a separation.
Mrs. Tremaine was not willing that
her only daughter should be given away
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Tremaine had come home from Paris tc
be presant at the celebration of the
nuptials and everything was progressing
famously when Tom drew Bella aside
one day and asked her if she had yet the
fellow to the embroidered glove she hac
lost on the evening of her seventeenth
birthday. She told him she had always
preserved it as a memento of her grand
fathers love; if he would like to see il
she would bring it to him, and she raj
off to get it.
Bella soon returned, bearing an ebony
glove box in her hand. in which in fold.
of blue satin, lay the fellow to the littl.
glove that had so long been Tom'slove6
companion. On pretense of examining
it mor closely he lifted it from it's rest
ing place and stealthily put his own il
the place of it with the diamond rin1
inserted in one of its fingers.
ut is just lovely" said Bella, as sh'
took it in her hands, "and itis--
Oh, Tom, there is something in the fin
ger that was never there before! VIVA
can it be? Do look. dear, and see VIVA
it is" And she dropped it into the DO.
again.
"What! are you afraid of your ow,
glove? What a silly little puss you are
All! see what the fairies have done TO
you!" And he drew from the glove tn
long lost ring and placed it on Bella
finger.
Bella looked upin amazement, but i
was only for q moment; the truth flashed
on her at once. Selling Tom by til,
arm, she cried:
ooh, darling! you cannot deceive me
it wa you who found my treasurer"
Tom laughed at her impetuosity.
"Come to me, pussy" he said, as h
held out his arms to her, "and sit clos
beside me while I tell you my fairy tale.
1t was a long story, because of til
many Interruptions. Tom had to b
kissed so often, he had to be called by
many pet names, and his hair had to b
gently pulled when he talked about tn
charms of his lady love! Indeed, tn
narrative took up so much time that til
evening was almost spent before the en-
came.
Bella was as charming a bride as eve
stood under a marriage bell. Her brid
al robe of white satin was draped wit
lace point of fabulous value. Her Jew
elry consisted of the choicest pearls
She wore the celebrated embroidere
gloves, and a single diamond glittere
upon herfinger.