Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-05-09


curd soap, and melted some. In water
bath with essence OF orris-root, Tor n
violet soap and some with all the fragrant
oils for morning-dew soap. ana we poured
1, all In these little square mouluS, anu
when they were set we rubbed them
smooth and folded them In tissue-paper;
and I had ordered the little boxes. ana
put the gilt writing on the covers my
self"
"You are a genius, Bella, my love-.
you see If it works at all, We can
do II all over on a larger scale;
but you must have the colognes ana
| angel-water and the rest in cut-glass,
you know
Yves. have ordered It, sold my pearls
| TO pay for 1t. and the boxes and the
fragrant oils The pearls were tren my own
"My near, noble girl, You are lesson
| to all the daughters Of the bllionaires.
| But you must put a tremendous price on
| these things II YOU want to make them
the fashion. Now YOU are going to have
them I'm the drawing rooms, and you are
going to be there to sell them; Peter
will be down here preparing them. Who
| Is going to carry them homeP For your
customers will not, you know.
I'VE will" said Nina and Molly, looking
! in the door.
What a noble famllyr' said the great
| lady. IF all the girls in America were
| like you. it would be a different world
her~," And she swept them all into her
ample arms. And now, she said. you
must all come home and dine with me
But Bella said that would not be best.
Mrs Dessenerly might be saint on
| earth, hut other people were not ana
| what was to-day kindness tomorrow
might be scant courtesy: II was inevitable
| that they would be made To feel their
position and they had best accept II
| at the start.
You would not have thought. however,
| that there was anything OF the sort TO
accept. had you been in the French draw,
| ing-room a few weeks later. All the OLD
| elegance of the place was in eVllencf-
| the messy rugs. the soft gloom. the rlch
| hangngs. the pictures. the baubles the
| deep lounges. Only on the tables ana
| consoles lay the little pOmade Jars, the
| glass colognes. the boxes OF the rose
| pearls. \ pretty maid, In coquettsh cap
| Bella herself received them. Mrs. Des-
senerly unfolding her the first few days.
| Another maid passed claret cup.
Who would have guessed these na,Is
were Nina and Molly with their curls
brushed out OF sight and bound away
beneath their caps, and their ruiiied mus,
| lin aprons wrapping them to the chin
| As for Bella, she was gracious, as
gentle. as elegant. meeting all her eld
ac1uaintances. as II nothing had, nap
pened. showing her samples. taxing their
| orders, sending their vinalgrettes 10 De
filled as II she were simply doing the
kindnesses and cOurtesles OF her own
house to visitors.
OF course. there was presently no sucn
place of rendezvous as Bella french
parlors There fine ladies' met one an
other and their gallants. and there they
made their purchases AZ great prices,
feeling they had something nicer thah
could be had unless Bella has some con-
nection with the toilet people OF kllsS
and queens and princeSses.
And there one day Roland Tascot had
the assurance 10 come in the tram or
some great dame and to ignore the girl
whose heart he had been on the point or
claiming before the crash OF her tather
failure came,
When. at the end of year. Bella added
m her books and struck OFT her balance,
she had already cleared enough 10 senl
the girls abroad, and to hire maids IN
their places, to give her courage 70 enteI
on broader phases OF her ehterpIlse, en-
| 10 feel that half dozen more years OF
such success would restore 10 her her
fathers house and give her sufhcieht
money to maintain IL. A.,
Whether owing TO herself or 10 Nis;;
| Dessenerly's determination Belia couiu
still have maintained her place IN society,
had she chosen; but, although she was
never quite left out, she made her Ire
quiet If busy one. -,
And before long there came a gay
when. through the dishonesty or debtors,
the ruin of railroad. and unfortunate
speculatio of his own. Roland Iascoi
found himself penniless. ana beiia , nai
the Subtraction If that IL could be called,
~ her who cared nothing for him other
Than ne was one OF her kind. or giving
hin, a situation as her book-keeper, where
every day. as he saw her pretty fortune
rolling M. he had the opportunity or
pnashlng his teeth ard wondering ac-his
folly.