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) Is 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 
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