Evening journal., 1899-05-18
AN ENCHANTED BOSE.


he noticed that one girl who was plain in
the face and simply dressed sat all alone |
and had no partners in the dances. He took |
pity on her, and, approaching, he bowed re
spectfully and asked if she would do him !
the honor Of being his partner in the next |
waltz.
She was much pleased and readily con-
sented. She danced well despite her ugli-
ness, and she was so witty in her converse
tion that the handsome young man took
even more pity on her.
Surely" he said to himself, Ito this girl,
though she lacked fairy godmother to give
her beauty, nevertheless has been given a
bright mind. And uglness is only skin
deep, anyhow" So he took her down to
supper.
During the supper her conversation was
so witty that he thought more of her than
he had while dancing. He realized tina.
she possessed a charm greater than that
OF pretty. face, and congratulated himself
on finding her, but did not think of taking
for himself any credit for the intention TO
do kindness that had first prompted him
to ask her to dance. This refusing to credit
himself with any Of his acts of kindness
was the one thing above all others that had
made him so popular among his fellows.
When the ball was over he asked the ugly
girl if he might escort her to her home, for
the hour was late and the streets Of the city
after dark were full of rough persons. She
was pleased with the young mans attention,
because all the beautiful young women at
| the ball were green with jealousy. She
thanked him for his offer of escort, and
when he would have telephoned for car
rage she stopped him and said:
"Aly own carriage is waiting for me at the
door, We will ride in that"
1t was a beautiful carriage, with two men
in livery on the box, and it was drawn by
two praucing horses with long tails. When
I the carriage stopped at her house, which
was made of handsome red brick, with steps
of white marble, he said goodnight, and
lifted his hat in courtly fashion.
The ugly girl took a red rose from her
hair and handed it to him, and as he placed
it in his buttonhole she said, quite seriously:
"Koep that rose carefully, for as long as
you have it you will be wealthy, and when
j, ever enemies annoy you it win put them to
\ sleep You only need to shake it in their
} faces ard they viii fall into a sluulber so
deep that only one thing will waken them.
"And what is that" asked the young
man. lie was much astonished, and he won
/ dered if the ugly girl was dreamer OF
Il dreams.
; IF you kiss them they will wake up, said
the young girl, and great red flush over
spread her face, and she ran up the white
; marble steps AMI into her house
e "Htr face was as red as the rose" unused
2 the young man, as he walked toward hi.
: 4 Ga f.rl-t. flrah I
lieve. 1t was heart flush" And when he
had come to his club he sat down at a table
with other young men and drew to fouI
hearts, until the mill,mans bell was rung il
the streets OF the city. Then he went to hi.
own home
/, He had forgotten the ugly Girl and the rec
! rose and the strange things he had heard
. but when he tossed the fower on his dress
= ing table it all came back to him. Something
rolled out from the petals Of the rose, an,
: when he picked it up and examined it h
saw great white diamond of the pures
water.
= 1T must have come from her hair" h
: thought, but when he picked up the rose AM
laid it down again another diamond rolle'
: out. Every time he repeated this anothe
= diamond appeared, and when he went T.
bed there lay on his dressing table heap o
y pure white stones, worth king ransom.
i' Il will never work again, he said at noon
when he got up and saw that the diamond
we're still there. He was a sensible youn
man, as well as handsome and clever, an
e he kept his word
r lie spent so much money in the next yea
e that the report spread, and was believed
d that he owned the gas works and the tro
N 10y cars, and all the electric lights in tn
N city. But the diamond merchants to whoT
N he was constantly bringing rare and beat
m tiful white stones to sell made up the
v, minds that he was smugger. So the
/ hired detectives to follow him.
.. He saw two of these detectives one nigh
IN as he walked into a great hotel, and. viii
is everybody was running TO see that the ic
Ie boxes were filled up, so that he would nC
q complain Of a great and unsatisiied thirs
D. he walked mp to the two men, whose nam'
were Byrnes and McClusky, and shook b
red rose in their faces. They fell asleep
N once, and the young man then ordered th
all the French wine in the place be opene
He was weary the next morning, an
when he had breakfasted on poached egl
he walked out on the street, full of though
r. and with a heart almost as heavy as h
VI head
- whats the uses" he kept repeating
v, himself, as he walked. whats the use
la it all?" lie came to high building, and Il
y sign over the doorway caught his attentiC
l. and he stopped. He rang the bell for Il
L. elevator, but it did not come, and
70 bounded down the 90 pairs Of stairs like
en- schoolboy. Everything in the building W
TO strangely quiet. As he passed out the do
Mt on to the street he saw the elevator mi
ne asleep in his car.
ed And then a strange and wonderful sig
presented itself to him. Every living THU
was asleep. Men and women slumbered
they stood on the sidewalk or rode in {
~ cars The horses stood still, their hea
y, down and eyes closed, and their drive
~ slumberod at their seats. Directly in fro
~ Of the building he had left was the carria
ss Of the ugly girl and she sat inside with h
eyes closed, while her horses and the men
livery were as sound asleep as she.
Tt rather pleased the young man to TIM
that by his act the whole city had gone
the Land Of Nod, but he knew that the
II was a debt which he must pay to the ul
ID girl who had given him the enchanted ro
l. So he made a wry face, and he kissed t
! "a IL