The Newtown bee., 1903-11-27

UuU lU SllOWeu IO duVduUdSc ucT SOlU, rounded throat and perfect arms. It was time when it was the fashion to wear many jewels. Other women sparkled and gliti cred with every movement, but Miss Legrand wore not even a brooch or bracelet. Her red-gold hair, that threw out rich lights from it's braided coronal, was the only Ornament of her graceful head. Her coloring was rich and warm, as is usually the case with such hair, and her eyes of the darkest blue.
 The maids that were clustered on the stairway to watch the dancers drew a long breath together when the opening doors showed Miss Legrand, surrounded by eager admirers.
 ''Oh. Isn't she tine?" exclaimed a young chambermaid.
 "Fine?' repeated the new maid, with decided sniff. II never beheld | Anything plainer,-not a ring or a pin about her.'
 "Well, she has jewel boxes," testit- ed a third. Miss Rutherford sent me to fasten her gown, and was talk ing the boxes out of her trunk when she turned around. Mary says she, put those boxes back, am not wear ing jewels tonight as grand as you please. I'd like to have peep inside. :"
 "HuSh chattering, girlS,' said the old housekeeper,g ,good-naturedly. II 've a notion Miss Rosale will be the next
 bride here., MT Jack. has called her his sweetheart ever since poor MT Le- grand brought his two mOtherleSs
 yirlS-MisS Julia was a babe in arms
 then-to Mrs Rutherford's home:
 She was cousin of his, and she has
 loved his children ever since almost
 like her own. She grieved as much
 when Miss Rosalie went back to keep
 house for her father in the South as
 she does now over her daughters mar
 riage."
 "Why, who's that?" exclaimed the
 excitable young cham bermaid, as a
 dark figure ran lightly down from the
 upper landing and passed into the ball.
 room. It was a young man of elegant
 dress and graceful carriage, handsome
 enough as seen in the brilliant light t(
 warrant the next ejaculation, half un-
 Ter her breath,-
 My, isn't he beautifu1?"
 This was followed by a burst of won
 1ering questions.
 "Where did he come from''
 "Was he standing there all tht
 time?'
 "Do you suppose he was listening tt
 us?"
 "It's the young Englishman," vol unteered the new maid. "He is on
 of the grand folks, and it's plain to se who has taken his fancy. MT Jacl r. may lose his sweetheart if he doesn' 5 look outv'
 IT ''It is not likely that MT Jack Ruth erford will lose any young lady he set his heart on," answered the old house keeper severely. r. "Capt Hammersley, the young Eng o lishman, was supposed, on account 0 G his serious manners and beautiful face r, to have a liking for philanthropy an t ! taste for human nature in all rank e md conditions of life. If he wer r. really studying it on this occasion, h E must have been amused to find it s i- much alike in it's various phases, fo is IS he watched Miss Legrand's gldin }, movements in the waltz, he heard E group of young girls, not yet out, e1
 claiming in wonder over Miss L' [, .rand'S eccentricities, as described a. Ter younger sister. Julia spoke wit r. great vivacity.
 h "She has never once put on her ar n oestral jewels. ."-Julia never used ,t plain word if a romantic one was to i'd found. Mot once, and she has $ 'd rings, and necklace that is a drear ,u if beauty. She is the oldest grill" al elf she has scruples, perhaps st as will let you wear them?' suggested ,u companion.
 "Alas! no. I have entreated he as only to let me try them on, but sf lg says that am too young, and to dec ,n myself in them would be nly e1 r. couraging worldly desires. Think ,p it!"
 is If ROSalie Legrand had planned 1e make herself the universal theme sf
 could not have been more successful d. The men admired her simplicity, son ,p women called it vanity, others wi
 liked her, smiled at it as a capric
 Jack said nothing. It seemed |
 arouse a keen interest in the your
 Englishman.
 "Miss Legrand must be very wealth 5h to dress as she doeS!" he remarke h. tentatively in the smoking rooI at Jack looked at him little curiousl ;h ''On the contrary, she is very pco oy But she has a figure that makes an al thing look well.'
 ed "The ancestral jewels, then, tha of Miss Julia sometimes mentions, hay
 they no reality? That story alway ot appealed to me-" and he looked { li- Jack with engaging frankness. le Jack answered with a little stiffness ed "Oh, the ancestral jewels are d is right. But the fact that the grand iii mother from whom they come was d IT. heiress does not make her grandchi to dren rich"
 gs "I see," replied Captain Hammers m gravely. "Su Miss Rusalie has u lt good taste not to dress as her ancesto
 did. l admire that.''
 is. Ibid you ever ask her why she d 1t not wear them?' suddenly asked Jac 4 "Oh, you are trying to get ne in