by what is called society. But I learned that
society is treacherous. If one has lots of money to spend there are
certain attractions that it takes money to enjoy or provide. The
different degrees of wealth provide their respective scale of eligible
members to make up their circle of society, and the lesser lights are
eclipsed or paled into insignificance by the grander candle power. It is
the same in business, professions, art and politics, so I found that my
sphere was probably cast in just as pleasant places among my class of
those who work for a living, as though I had been evolved by marriage or
fortune into a society star of any magnitude, where the jealousies and
'snubs' are even harder to be endured because of the still greater
lustre found or imagined among more brilliant or exclusive sets into
which I could not enter. Do I make it clear?"

"Very; indeed, you echo my own theory. But I could not have expressed it
as clearly as you have," replied Jack.

"After all," continued Miss Asquith, "I doubt if the very rich obtain as
much unalloyed pleasure from life as do the middle classes who do not
aspire to greatness and are educated from infancy to make themselves
happy in the strata to which they are indigenous, as one may put it.
They are free to come and go any and everywhere, while the wealthy
commence life in charge of a nurse girl, are educated by private tutors,
attended by chaperones in their courtship and graduate simply to be put
in charge of the butler, footman, coachman and maid. But I guess I have
worn you out with my sermon on riches, and will say good night."

Hazel and Jack joined in their good night and discussed the subject some
time, deciding to ask Miss Asquith to meet Chiquita and the four go as
one party to Estes Park. As Hazel said, "It will give Chiquita a grand
chance to study another phase of the life of her white sister, and,
Jack, I guess the red man's squaw is not alone in the field of drudgery,
after all."

Owing to through tickets having been procured, it became necessary for
Jack to go one route while Miss Asquith took another from Chicago to
Denver, arrangements being made to that end the day following. Jack had
to get his tickets vised at the Chicago office and for some technical
reason the matter was of such a nature that it required the O. K. of the
General Passenger Agent. As he awaited an audience, the official being
for the moment engaged with another person, evidently a st