his coat on during dinner) ; the three 

 brothers who owned the ranch, and 

 the wife of one of them ; several chil- 

 dren ; a prim and proper spinster from 

 Washington — how she got there, who 

 can tell? — and Miss Belle Hadley, the 

 servant girl. 



In studying the case of Belle I at 

 last appreciated the age-old teaching 

 that the greatest dignity belongs to the 

 one who serves. Else why did the ex- 

 mayor's wife bake doughnuts, and the 

 rotund Senator toil at the ice cream 

 freezer with the thermometer at 112 

 degrees, and the millionaires' sons call 

 Belle "Miss Hadley," and I make 

 bows for her organdie dress, while she 

 curled her hair for a dance to be 

 held that evening ten miles away, 

 and to which she went complacently 

 with her pick of the cowboys and her 



