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270 “WHAT DOES THIS MEAN ?” flowers when she ceased dancing and approached her, her eyes shining, her cheeks glowing, and her coral lips wreathed with bright smiles, and both Josephine and Mrs. Richards recognized her instantly. | A low cry of surprise and dismay broke from Jcsephine Richards’ lips. ‘‘Tt is—it surely is Stella Gladstone,” she said; ‘‘and that man talking to her is certainly Uncle Jacob Rosevelt! What can it all mean?” - © Rosevelt! Yes, that is the name,” said Mr. Pendleton, who had caught it, and who had first called their attention to Star. ‘* ‘Jacob Rosevelt, the millionaire,’ I heard him called this afternoon, but I forget names so easily.” ‘“Tacob Rosevelt, the millionaire!” repeated Mrs. Richards, with white lips and astonished eyes, while a tumult of emctions raged within her heart. ‘‘Yes; he must be very rich, for they have every appearance of it, and Miss Gladstone’s turn-out, which was sent on before them, is a marvel of luxury and elegance. But—do you know them?” Mr. Pendleton asked, regarding her curiously. Mrs. Richards’ thoughts worked very rapidly. If this was really Jacob Rosevelt, and she could not doubt the evidence of her own eyes, he must by some stroke of luck have recovered a portion, if not the whole, of his fortune since leaving her house; and in this case he became at once an entirely different person from the feeble, poverty-stricken in- dividual who had come to her a little more than a year ago to sue for food and shelter. | He had been a person of no account then—one to be ignored and neglected, for there was nothing to be gained by treating him otherwise. | : But ‘‘ Jacob Rosevelt, the millionaire,” if such he had be- _ come again, must be propitiated, flattered, and cajoled. (E(0) EComicbooks