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SOUTHERN BANNER: JULY 2, 1878, CINDERELLA. “ Really it’s quite a riddle, when one coroes to think of it, said Mrs. Dale, putting the tips of her ringed fingers meditatively together.’* “ Jeannette is a charming girl with a most taking way with her. I’m sure there can be no doubt about her marrying satisfactorily. And Mari** an’s music is an excellent card to play. But when one comes to Philippa—” “ An odd little gipsy isn’t she ?” said Mr. Dale. Decidedly impracti cable, I should think. “ Neither pretty, accomplished, i nor womanly!” sighed Mrs. Dale, gloomily. Mrs. Darrel Dale had invited her brother’s daughters from Hemlock Hollow, in the Catskill Mountains, to spend the summer at Niagara Falls with ner. . ‘•I dare say,” said she confiden tially, to her sister-in-law, the farm er’s wife, they’ll all marry well before the season is over; and in any event the experience will be worth a deal to them.’’ And honest ftirs. Humphries took all her ten years’ savings out of the Hemlock Hollow Bank, to equip the three girls suitably for the summer campaign. Jeannett took to waltzing and the German as naturally a9 if she had been born to them; Marian slipped gracefully into a musical and literary grove; but poor little Philippa seemed to fit nowhere. She was shy and silent in the ball-room, struck unaccountably mute when she ought to be talkative, and seemed to prefer the woods, beside the great cateract, when all the world flocked to the ball-rooin of the Clifton House or the International. “ Because AuntTheo,’’ said honest Philippa. “ I never know what to say to the gentlemen when they ask me to dance.” “ But, my dear child,” said Mrs. Dale “ that’s not the way to get into society. “I—I don’t think I caro so very much about society.” Aunt Theo, said heretical Philippa. “Then you’ll never get married in the world,” said Aunt Theo, in an accent of despair. But even Philippa was roused into interest when the cards came out for the grand fancy masquerade ball at the International Hotel, and Mr. Dale give each of his nieces a hun dred dollar bill, to enable them to appear suitably for the occasion. “I shall personate ‘ Mudine,’ ’’ said Jeannette, thinking how well she would look in sea green crape, crystal fringes and water lillies. “ And I shall be Sappho,” cried out Marian. “ Capital!” said Mrs Dale. “ And you, Philippa “I don’t know yet,”said Philippa, contracting her black eyebrows. “ Mr. Mortimer says I ought to go as a gipsy.” “ Then, my dear,” said Mrs. Dale, be. a gipsy, by all means. If Mr. Mortimer is good enough to express an opinion, it shouldn’t be neglec ted.” And both Marian and Jeannette looked a little jealous, for the Hon. Hugh Mortimer, from Montreal, was the lion at Niagra Falls just then, and his gracious notice was enough to ensure the lucky recipient a front place in the ranks of fashion. “ When did he say that, puss ?” demanded Jeannette, jerking out the ribbons of sash. “Oh, yesterday, when we were over on Goat Island.” “ Did he walk with you?’’ “ A little way.” “ I hope you made yourself agree able ?’’ suggested Marian, tartly. “ I don’t know whether I did or not,” said Philippa. “ And now, Aunt Theo, if you’ll give me that .bundle of work, I’ll take it'to Elsie Dupre. There will be just time before tea for us to walk there and back.’’ “ But the band will play presently and—■’* “Thank you, Aunt,’’ said Phil- ippa; “ but I "don’t care forlSthe band.” Elsie Dupre was a slim, consump tive looking girl, who lived among spruces and tamaracks on the Cana* dian side, and took in what sewiug, embroidery and lace mending she was lucky enough to get—a girl in whom Philippa Humphries had somewhat become interested, perhaps because she was so friendless, and shadowy, and forlorn. But instead of beiug singing at her work, Philippa found poor Elsie sobbing at the window, while her grandmother, a hooked nose, saf froned skinned old crone sat rocking herself back and forth by the fireless hearth. The girl put her brown, warm hand on Elsie’s shoulder. “ Elsie,” said she, “ stop -cryiug. Tell me what is the matter ?” “ Don’t touch me, mademoiselle,’’ wailed poor Elsie. “ They are com ing to take me to prison to-night.” And then in answer to Philippa’s fctartea eyes of enquiry, she told her how Mr9. St. George had sent a moire dress there to be retrimmed with costly Spanish blonde—Mrs. St. George cf the Clifton House, whose pearls, and diamonds, and splendid toilets, were the marvel of the place—aud how by some acci dent, the old grandmother had contrived to upset a kerosene lamp upon it. “ It is ruined, of course,” said Elsie, clasping her hands ; “ and 1 cannot pay for it—so I am to be ar rested for the money it is worth.” “She must bean old hag!’’ said Philippa, impulsively, “ She is a cold, hard woman, Mademoiselle,” sighed Elsie, “who knows not the meaning of the word ‘ mercy.’ ” And if they put me in prison my old grandmother will starve. “ They shall not put me in prison!” said Philippa. How much was the dress worth ? “ A deal ot money, Mademoiselle. A hundred dollars! wailed Elsie. Philippa Humphries put her hand into her pocket, where the hundred dollar bill that Uncle Dale bad given her lay inside the folds of a tiny blue velvet portroonaie. “ There’s the money,” said she. “ Give it to the odious old harpy, and dou’t cry any more; for your eyes are swelled twice their usual size already.” Elsie looked incredulously at the little brown slip of paper. “But, Mademoiselle, yon are sure ly not in earnest!” said she. “You cannot be!” “Yes, I am,” said Philippa, shaking back the jetty rings of hair from her solemn black eyes. “ Take that money, pay Mrs. St. George and dou’t talk any more about it. * * * * * * “ Well, Philippa,’’ said Mrs. Dale, when her neice came back again, “ have you decided upon your char acter yet^” “ Yes,’’ said Philippa, quietly. “ I will be Cinderella!” “Who?” said Mrs. Dale, with her band behind her ear. “Don’t you leinember, Aunt Theo? The little brown skinned girl who stayed at home when her sisters went to the prince’s ball.” ' “ What a very odd choice!’’ said Mrs. Dale. “Is it?” said Philippa. “Weill always did like to be different from other people, Aunt Theo.” The masquerade ball was a bril liant success. “Undine,” in silver green crape and white water lilies, was as lively as a dream. “Sappho,” was tall and pale, and delightfully classic; but there was one drop lacking in the cup of happiness. Mr. Mortimer, for whose benefit half the belles of Niagara Falls bad dressed that evening, was not there. “ So provoking of Philippa,’’ said Aunt Theo, to go and throw away that money. “ My dear,” said Mrs. Dale, “ a good deed is never thrown away. And really that Cinderella idea of the little girl’s wasn’t so bad. Ha, ha, ha! she did stay at home when her sisters went to the ball.” “She will never learn wisdom,” said Mrs. Dale, with some asperity. 44 It’s so strange she don t care about 6uch things.” But as it happened, Philippa did care about such things. And on that identical moment she was standing on one of the starlightcd verandas with a pink Shetland shawl around her shoulders, peeping snrreptuously through the windows at the waltzer*. “ Miss Philippa!” She started guiltily. u Oh, Mr. Mortimer! I am not doing wrong, am I ?” He smiled as he drew her arm through his. “But why are you not dancing inside?” - ^ “ I—I preferred not tosnight.” “Little Philippa,” said Mr. Morti mer standing still under the shadow of a drooping elm, “ you are equivo cating now. And, as it happens, I know the truth ?” “ I don’t understand you,” said Philippa. “My velvet is in love with Elsie Dupre. She has told him all about your deed of kiudly charity and he has told me!” “ Yes,” said Philippa, in a low tone, “my uncle gave me money for a dress, bat I preferred helping Elsie to going to the ball.” , “You told your aunt you were going as Cinderella.” “ How do you know ? But that is not strictly true,” laughed Phil ippa “ I was to be Ciuderella. And so I am!” “Then Philippa, if you are Cinde rella, will you let me be the Prince ?” “ Mr. Mortimer!’’ “ Sweetest, I have been looking all . my life for just such a noble- hearted girl,” said Mortimer. And now that I have fouud her, I shall not willingly let her go.” “ Do you mean—” “ I mean, love, that I want you for my wife. Mr. Dale could hardly credit his own ears, the next day, when Hugo Mortimer formally requested of him the hand of his youngest niece in marriage. 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