The Duchess of Chiselhurst is giving a great ball on the 29th.

It is to be a very swagger affair, with notables from every part of Europe, and they seem determined that no one connected with a newspaper shall be admitted.

We have set at work every influence to obtain an invitation for a reporter, but without success, the reply invariably given being that an official account will be sent to the press.

Now, I want you to set your ingenuity at work, and gain admittance if possible, for I am determined to have an account of this ball written in such a way that everyone who reads it will know that the writer was present.

If you can manage this, I can hardly tell you how grateful the proprietor and myself will be .-- Yours very truly, "RADNOR HARDWICK." Miss Jennie Baxter sat for some moments musing, with the letter in her hand.