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BEAUTIFUL BUT POOR. ana i “The foreman will wait upon you, Mr. Legare, in a few moments,’’ said the proprietor. ‘‘Take a seat by this table.” The man of wealth sat down, and Mr. W—— sent a boy after the foreman. The latter came and looked over the mixed up and scattered pages with a perplexed look. “Tm afraid you can do nothing with them,”’ said Mr. Legare, noticing the expression in the foreman’s face. “Iam sorry, for I doubt if a second copy of either nore can be found in this city, or indeed in America.’ “Try, Mr. Jones—try your very best, ’ said Mr. Went anxiously. “I think we can do it, sir,’? said the foreman, brightening up. ‘“‘I accidentally discovered that one of our girls, Hattie Butler, is a good linguist—reads German and French as well as she does English— one of our best and most ue girls, too.’’ *‘Send for her, please,’’ said Mr. Legare. ‘‘I do so want to preserve these works in good shape.”’ And presently Hattie Butler stood before the trio —one of her employers, Mr. Legare, and the fore- man—calm and lady-like, neat in her white apron and brown calico dress, her black hair wound ina queenly crown about her shapely head. ‘‘“Hattie, see what can be done with these old re- -views,’’ said the foreman, with the familiar, bossy style peculiar to too many of his class. The young girl took up the French work, and in- ' stantly said: | “This is very old. A French review of Dante’s ‘Inferno.’ Some pages, I see, are misplaced; but if all are here, sir, I can soon arrange them.”’ Mr. W—— looked at Mr. Legare triumphantly. GComicboo cS m €oO