THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG. PA. GOOD LADY DUCAYNE BY MLS8 BRADDOK. Bella Hollestoo had made tip her mind that her only chance of earning her bread and helping her mother to an ooaeional crust was by going out into the great unknown world ai companion to a lady. She wu willing to go to any lady rich enough to pay her a salary, and so eccentric as to with for a hired companion. Fire shillings told off re luctantly from one of those sovereigns which were so rare with the mother and daughter, and which melted away so quickly, are solid shillings had been haaided to a smartly-dressed lady la aa offloe in Harbeck Street, W., in the hope that this v..-y Superior Perron wonld find a situation and a salary for Mios RollMton. table where Bella's hand had placed them, to make sure that they were nei ther of them florins, before she wrote a description of Bella's qualifications and ! requirements In a formidable looking lodger. "A?r she asked, curtly. "Eighteen, last July." "'f "Any accomplishments?' "No; I am not at all accomplished. If I were I should want to be a govern ess a companion seems the lowest sUtrsi." "We have some highly accomplished ladies on our books as companions, or chaperon companions." "Oh. I know!" babbled Bella, loqua cious in her youthful candor. "But that is quite a different thing. Mother hasn't been able to afford a pisno since I was twelve years old, so I'm afraid I have forgotten how to play. And I have had to help mother with her nee dlework, so there hasn't been much time to study." "Please don't waste time upon ex plaining what you can't do, but kindly tell me what you can do," said the Su perior Person, cruahingly, with her pen poised between delicate fingers waiting to write. "Can you read aloud for two or three hours at a stretch? Are you active and handy, an early riser, a good walker, sweet tempered and oblig ing "I can say yes to all those questions except about the sweetness. 1 think I hare a pretty good temper, and I should be anxious to oblige anybody who paid for my services. I should want thorn to feel that I was really earning my salary." "The kind of ladles whs come to me , would not care for a talkative compan- ! ha," said the Person, severely, having . finished writing in her book. "My connection lies chiefly among the aria- j tocracy, and in that class considerable ' dolerenre is expected." "Oh, of course,' said Bella; "but it's quite different when Fm talking to you. I want to tell you all about myself once and forever." "I am glad it is to be only oncer said the Person, with the edges of her lips. Tho Person was of uncertain age, tightly laced in a black silk gown. She had a powdery complexion and a hand some clump of somebody else's hair on the top of her head. It may be that Bella's girlish freshness and vivacity had an irritating effect upon nerves weakened by an eight hour day in that overheated second floor in Harbeck Street. To Bella the official apartment, with its Brussels carpet, velvet curtains and velvet chairs, and French clock, ticking loud on the marble chimney piece, suggested the luxury of a palace, as compared with another second floor in Walworth where Mrs. Rolleston and her daughter had managed to exist for the last six years. "Do you think yon have anything on yonr books that would suit met" fal tered Bella, after a pause. "Oh, dear, no; I have nothing in view at present," answered the Person, who had swept Bella's half crowns into a drawer, absent mindedly, with the tips of her fingers. "You see, you are so very unformed so much too young to be a companion to a lady of position. It is a pity you have not enough education for a nursery govern ess; that would be more in your line, probably." "And do you think it will be very long before you can get ma a situation?" asked Bella, doubtfully, "I really cannot say. Have you any particular reason for being so impatient not a love affair, I hope?" "A love affair lH cried Bella, with flaming cheeks. "What utter non sense. I want a situation basause mother is poor, and I hate beinjj a bur den to her." "There won't be much margin for sharing in the salary you are likely to get at your age ar.d with your very unformed manners," said the Person, who found Bella's peony cheeks, bright eye an 4 unbridled vivacity more aud more oppressive. r "Perhaps if you'd be kind enough to give me back the fee I could take it to an agency where the connection isn't quite so aristocratic," said Bella, who as she told her mother in her recital of thd interview was determined not to be eat on. "You will find no agency that can do mare for you than mine," replied the Person, wiious harpy fingers never re linquished coin. "You will have to wait lor your epportunlty. Yours is an exceptional case ; but I will bear you in mind, and it auythlng suitable offers 1 will write to you. I cannot say mere than that." The hH contemptuous bend of the stately head, weighted with borrowed hair, indicated the endof the interview. Bella went back to Walworth tramped sturdily every inch of the way in the September afternoon, and "took off" the Superior Person for the ammt-meut of her mother and the landlady, who lingered in the. shabby lmla silting room after bringing in the tea tray, to applaud Miss Rolleston's "taking off." "Divir, denr. what a mimic clio is!" I said the landlady. "You ouht to have let her go on the stage, mum. She might have made her fortune os s hac tress." OBAFTKH H, Bella waited and hoped, and llwtetwd for the postman's knocks which brought such store of letters for the parlors and the first floor, and so few for that hum ble second floor, where mother and daughter sat sewing with hand and with wheel and treadle, for the greater ' part of the day. Mrs. Rolleston was a lady by birth and education ; but it had been her bad fortune to marry a scoun drel; for the last half doxen years she had been that worst of widsws, a wife whose husband had deserted her. Hap pily, she was courageous, industrious, and a clever needlewoman; and she had been able just to earn a living for her self and her only child, by malt ins; mantles and cloaks fex a Wert-end house. It was not a luxurious living. Cheap lodgings in a shabby street off the Walworth Road, scanty dinners, homely food, well worn raiment, had been the portion of mother and daugh ter; but they loved each other so dearly, and Nature had made them both so light hearted, that they had contrived somehow to be happy. But now this idea of going out into "NOT A LOVE AFFAIR, I HOPE?" the world as companion to some fine lady had rooted itself into Bella's mind, and although she idolize! her mother, and although the parting of mother and daughter must needs tear two loving hearts into shreds, the girl longed for enterprise and change and excitement, as the pages of old longed to be knights, and so start for the Holy Land to break a lance with the infidel. She grew tired of racing downstairs very time the postman knocked, only to be told "nothing for you miss," by the smudgy facod drudge who picked up the letters from the passage floor. "Nothing for you. miss," grinned the lodging houte drudge, till at lust Bella took heart of grace and walked up to Harbeck Street, and asked the Superior Person how it was that no situation had been found for her. "You are too young," said the Person, "and you want a salary." "Of course I do," answered Balla; "don t other people want salaries?" "xoung ladies of your age generally want a comfortable home." "I don't," snapped Bella; "I want to help mother." "iou can call again this day week," said the Person ; "or, if I hear of any thing in the meantime, I will write to you."' No lotter came from the Person, and in exactly a week Bella put on her neat est hat, the one that had been seldomest caught in the rain, and trudged off to Harbeck Street It was a dull October afternoon, and there was a greyness in the air which might turn to fog before night. The Walworth Road shops gleamed brightly through that grey atmosphere, and though to a young lady reared in May fair or Balgravia such shop-windows would havo bean unworthy of a glance, they were a snare and temptation for Balla. Thero were so many thin? that she longed (or, and would never be able to buy. , Harbeck Street is apt to be empty at this dead season of the year, a long, long street, an endless perspective of eminently respectable houses. The Person s office was at the further end. and Bella lookel down that long, grey vista almost despairingly, more tired than usual with the trudge from Wal worth. As she looked, a carriage passed her, an old-fashioned, yellow chariot, on tee springs, drawn by a pair of high grey horses, with the stateliest of coachmen driving them, and a tall footman sitting by his side. "It looks like the fairy god-mother's coach," thought Bella. "I shouldn't wonder If it began by being a pump kin." It was a surprise when she reached the Person's door to find the yellow cha riot standing before it, and the tall i oot man waiting near the doorstep. Stie was almost afraid to go in and meet the owner of that splendid carriage. Slio had caught only a glimpsa of its occu pant as the chariot rolled by, u plumed bonnet, a patch of ermine. The Person's smart page ushered her upstairs and knocked at the official door. "Miss Rollehtm," he announced, apolo getically, while Bella waited outsido. "Show her in," said the Person, quick ly; and then Bella heard her murmur ing something in a low voice to bur client. Bella went in fresh, blooming, a liv ing image of youth and hope, and be fore s)i9 looked at the Person her gaze was riveted by the owner of the cha riot. Never lial she seen anyone as old as thj old lady sitting by the Person's tire ; a little old figure, wrapped from chin co fettinan ermine mantle; a withered, old face under a plumed bonnet a lace so wasted by age that it seemed only a pair of eyes and a peakud chin. The huso was peaked, too, but between the shurply pointed chin and the great, hining eyes, the small, aquiline nose was hardly visible. "This Is Miss Rolleston, Lady Da cayne." Claw-like fingers, flashing with Jewels, lifted a double eyeglass to Lady Dti cayne's shining black eyes, and through the glasses. Bella saw those unnaturally bright eyee magnified to a gigantic size, anil glaring at her awfnllv. "Miss Torpinter has told me all abdnt ! you." said the old voice that belonged to the eyes. "Have you good health? Are you strong and active, able to eat well, sleep well, walk well, able to en joy all that there is good in life?" I nave never known what it is to be ill, or idle," answered Bella. "Then I think you will do for me." "Of course, in the event of references being perfectly satisfactory," pnt in the Person. i "I don't want references. The young woman looks frank and innocent. I'll take her on trust.'' "So like you, dear Lady Ducayne," . murmured Miss Torpinter. j i wain a mrong young woman wnose health will give me no trouble." j "You have been so fortunate in that respect," coed the Person, whose voice and manner were subdued to a melting sweetness by the old woman's presence. "Yes, I've been rather unlucky," j grunted Lady Ducayne. j "But I am sure Miss Rolleston will not disappoint you, though certainly after yoar unpleasant experience with Miss Tomson. who looked the picture of health and Miss Blandy, who said she had never seen a doctor since she was vaccinated " "Lies, no doubt," muttered Lady Du cayne, and then turning to Bella, she asked curtly: J "You don't mind spending the winter in Italy. I suppose?" In Italy! The very word was magi cal. Bella' fair young face flushed criinsDn. "It has been the dream of my life to see Italy." she gaspod. From Walworth to Italy I How far, how impossible such a journey had seem ed tit'iat romantic dreamer. "Well your dream will be realized. Get yourself ready to leave Charing Cross by the train de luxe this day week at eleven. Be sure you are at the station a quarter before the hour. My people will look after you and your lug gage." Lady Ducayne rose from her chair, as stated by her crutch stick, and Miss Tor pinter escorted her. "Salary, oh, the same as usual and if theycung woman wants a quarter's pay in advance you can write to me for a check, answered Lady Ducayne, c&re lessly. Miss Torpinter went all the way down stairs with her client, and waited to nei her seated in the yellow chariot. When she came upstairs again she was slightly out of breath, and she had resumed that superior uiauner that Bella had found so crushing. "You may think your elf uncommon ly lucky. Bella Rolleston," she said. "I have dozens of young ladies on my books whom I might have recommend ed for this situation but I remembered having told you to call this afternoon and I thought I would give you a chance. O.d Lady Ducayne is one of the best people on the books. She gives her companion a hundred a year and pays all traveling expenses. You will live in the lap oi luxury." "A hundred a year! How too lovely! Shall I have to dress very grandly? Does Lady Dncayne keep much com pany?" "At her age I No, she lives in seclu sion in her own apartments her French maid, her footman, her medical attendant, her courier." Why did those other companions leave her?" asked Bella. "Their health broke down." "Poor things! And so they had to leave?" "Yes, they had to leave. I suppose you would like a quarter's salary in ad vance?" "Oh, yes, please. I shall have things to buy." "Very well. I will write for Lady Ducayne's check, and I will send you the balance, after deducting my com mission for the year." "To be sure, I had forgotten the com mission." "You don't suppose I keep this office for pleasure?" "Of conrse not," murmured Bella, re membering the five shillings entrance fee; but nobody could expect a hundred a year and a winter in Italy for five shillings, CUAPTEB III. "From Miss Rolleston, at Cap Ferri no, to Mrs. Rolleston, in Beresford Street, Walworth. "How I wi3h you could see this place, dearest; the blue nky, the olive woods, the orange and lemon orchards be tween the cliffs and the sea sheltering in the hollow of the great hills and with summer waves dancing up to the narrow ridge of pebbles and reeds which is the Itulian idea of a beach ! Oh, how I wish you could see it all, mother dear, and bank in this sunshiuo, that malcos it so difficult to believe the date at the head of this paper. Novem ber! The air is like an English Juno the huh is so hot that I ctn't walk a few yards without an umbrella. And to think of you at Walworth while I am here ! "I could cry at the thought that por haps you will never bat this lovely coast, this wonderful sea, these summer lloweis that bloom in winter. There is a hedge of pink geraniums under my window, mother a thick, rank hedge, as if tho flowers grew wild and there are Dijon roses climbing over arches and palisades all along tho terrace a rose garden full of bloom in November! Just picture it all I Yon could never imagine the luxury of this hotel. It is nearly new, aud has been built and dec orated regardless of expente. Our rooms are upholstered in pale blue satin, which shows up Lady Ducayne's parchmont complexion: but as the sits Iall day in u corner of the balcony bank ing in the sun, except when she id in her coMTiMUBS on rags , 7 iwm m eat. fl Woman's Strong Consilium Wrecked, Effects of a Treacherous Disease. A Wonderful Case. Fran th BulUtln, Monro, La. Mrs. Ftephea Rohbln is the wif of s proiainnut farmer living on a Urr aut well kept plantatiou jail at lbs iv of liouro, La. They have rid4 ia this community bnt two years, having moved here from Illi nois. Th chanr waa mad for th benefit of Mr. Kobbiiu health, ber phyaiaian hav ing ad vie! her that it waa the only hope of her ever regaining her lost health. "Three rear ago this last winter," said lira. RobMna, " I waa very tWk with that most treacherous disease, the grippe. I had a very iver time with it, but was alii te get oat after being confined to my homo ereral weeks. I think I went ont too soon, for I immediately contracted a cold and had a relapae. which it a common scour renre with that diaeane. For several more weeks I was confined to th houe; and after this I did not fully recover until recently. I won aide to get out again, but 1 waa quite S different woman. " My former strong constitution wu wreck ed, aud I was a dwindling maai of ekin and hone. My blow was thin and I had groan pale and fallow. My lunji were so affected that I thought I waa going into con sumption. During my illness I had lost thirty pound in weight. I tried to renin hit trrngth and former good health by trying different medicines and phTsieiaiis, hut until ing seemed to help me. My appetite w gone, and when I ate the food it would not stny on my stomuch. "The only thing my physlclsn mid for me to do was to take a change ot climate, and on liis advice I enme here. At first I seemed benefited, but to my aorrow it proved to le only temporary, and in a few mouths I waa iu my former condition. The color had left mv cheeks. I had no enerev. and life a winery. I had become a burden to myself and family. Finally I h:ppend to rend in a ncwupiiper of how Vt. 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Kings and reigning sovereigns are held to be too important personages to be married anywhere else than in their own domin ions. On the other hand, it is held to be infra dignitate foraspinster princess of the blood who is about to blossom forth into a full fledged queen or em press to travel abroad in quest of a consort. In order to meet this diffi culty the royal or imperial bridegroom delegates one of the principal nobles of the realm, who goes through the religious and civil portion of toe wed ding ceremony in the capital of the bride's country on behalf of his mas ter, makine; the responses for him and tendering his hand, as well as the ring, at the prescribed points of the ceremony. He then accompanies her to his master's dominions, acting as her chief escort. According to the ideas of the church, a ceremony of this kind is sufficiently binding upon the bride and upon the royal bride groom to render any further ceremony, ecclesiastical or civil, superfluous, and when any additional religious function takes place it usually assumes the form of a "Te Deum" and a solemn benediction, attended by both husband and wife immediately on the "arrival of the latter in the capital of her adopt ed country. San Francisco Argon an. Just try a ioc box of Cascarets, the finest liver and bowel regulator ever made. 4-i-iy Pill for Pale People had effected a mlrara. Ions car with th same disease which a neighbor of win had in llUnoi. " On the strength of this testimonial I de cided at once to give the medicine a trial. I accordingly sent for a hot of Pr. Williams' Pink Pill for Pal Popl, and gav th pi 11a a thorough trial. I did aot iiotio any change till I had tried the second bot. 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