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Title: Cinderella
And Other Stories

Author: Richard Harding Davis

Release Date: July 16, 2005 [EBook #16310]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "He looked beyond, through the dying fire, into the
succeeding years."]

CINDERELLA

AND OTHER STORIES

BY

RICHARD HARDING DAVIS

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

1896

_Copyright, 1896,_

By Charles Scribner's Sons.

*** _The stories in this volume have appeared in Scribner's Magazine,
Harper's Magazine, Weekly, and Young People; and "The Reporter who Made
Himself King" also in a volume, the rest of which, however, addressed
itself to younger readers._

University Press:

JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.

CONTENTS

Page
Cinderella 1
Miss Delamar's Understudy 36
The Editor's Story 76
An Assisted Emigrant 105
The Reporter who Made Himself King 119

CINDERELLA

The servants of the Hotel Salisbury, which is so called because it is
situated on Broadway and conducted on the American plan by a man named
Riggs, had agreed upon a date for their annual ball and volunteer
concert, and had announced that it would eclipse every other annual ball
in the history of the hotel. As the Hotel Salisbury had been only two
years in existence, this was not an idle boast, and it had the effect of
inducing many people to buy the tickets, which sold at a dollar apiece,
and were good for "one gent and a lady," and entitled the bearer to a
hat-check without extra charge.

In the flutter of preparation all ranks were temporarily levelled, and
social barriers taken down with the mutual consent of those separated by
them; the night-clerk so far unbent as to personally request the colored
hall-boy Number Eight to play a banjo solo at th