Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-10-12
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Eugene"
"Well, am glad there is no help for
IL, and that II was a provision of that
wise old mans will that the ancient es-
tabhshment should be kept up. 1t will
be the place Of oil places for your sisters
to visit"
Ma, IL seems TO me you don't care
one atom about me except in 30 far as /
can do for those sisters. should think
they we're your children, and had been
hung on the door in basket"
Upon which speech of Miss Alice's,
Mrs. Magilvray giving signs of her new
accomplishment in Mysteries, Alice had
to bring her round with kisses and sal
volatile, and the promise of the south
parlor, second floor front, with the bed
room out of it, lined with blue satin and
inlaid with ivory and redwood, and with
q blue Aubusson tapestry on the floor, as
soon as she found it convenient to make
her first visit at the Descamps house.
They had at last begun to talk of the
Descamps house, Mrs. Magilvray having
insisted on prolonged engagement, ig-
noring anything that had passed before
her consent had been given. 1.-TWO
years." she said, "are not any too much
time for your family to become ac.
! quainted with its new member, for you
and your lover to know each other thor.
oughly. / was engaged to your father
ten years" Eugene privately thought
that that accounted for great deal, but
| finding it in vain to make any Opposi.
tion had acquiesccd, and occupied him
self with an army of workmen in the old
house, and more particularly with the de-
mands of new business into which he
had been daring enough to plunge agreat
| portion of his capital-a system of sup.
! ply contracts for the army of a Euro.
pean potentate, knowledge of the oppOr-
:unity for which had come to him through
q connection in the State Department,
and which before the end of the year was
paying cent per cent.
They had a merry time at the Magil
vrays' over the trousseau. Prosperity is
a great sweetener; and Mrs. Magilvray
had come down from her pedestal and
was quite like human being, while the
girls were happy in Alice's happiness,
and the boys-to whom Eugene opened
vistas of boundless ecstasy in various FIVE
dollar bills, trips to distant city, and
nights at the theater, with promises of
exasperating jollity. 1t was a quiet lit
tie trousseau. Alice was in the infatuated
condition N which the betrothed some
times are, and would have been glad to
have Eugene give her everything; but
Mrs. Magilvray drew herself up, when
such a thing was suggested, as if her
vertebre had an india-rubber extension.
After he is your husband, Alice, it will
be time enough for you to receive gifts
of wearing apparel from Mr.. Descamps,"
she said; "but while you are simply my
daughter | shall claim the poor privilege
of attiring you myself" And Eugene
watched with some impatience the four
sets of fingers flying over the gray fan
mel morning suit and the black brilliant
inc afternoon dress to procure which
had somewhat strained the Magilvray
purse-together with the stunning toi.
lette gotten up from Mrs. Magilvray's an
cient brown silk and Alice's own old
tamise CLOTH and he inwardly vowed that
those articles should be worn by his
bride no longer than the time in which
she could reach the city and have an out
fit suitable to his own purse Its most
plethoric and comfortable purse, this
purse of ours" said he to Alice, "thanks
to my good luck. I'm a perfect fool for
luck. Just look at 1.-two years, and
have doubled my capital! l could give
that Institution for the Blind Feejeans as
much as l took from them, and be as
well off as l was the day they surren-
dered the propertyw
"Oh, l wish you could' said Alice.
"That would be so charming-to think
nnr hapPinoea had not vohbsd any of tho
little blind Feejeeans of their raised let
tersr
"I 1t shall be done on our wedding
day." said Eugene, "just as on such days
Princes pardon their prisoners or send
dinners to the convicts. l shall feel bet
ter about it myself; for I've always had
sensation of smallness on the side of the
Feejeeans, and of some not very explain |
Descamps. knew he grew very fond
of me after he took me home; but al |
ways felt that his heart was with the
Feejeeans."
" l suppose if we had been cast away |
at sea in our youth, and had fallen among |
the Feejeeans, and they had taken |
fancy to us al nGtureL instead of dished |
up in gravy, and had sent US home re-
luctantly at last on a passing frigate, |
and we had amassed a fortune trading |
back with those islands, we might feel a |
desire to serve them too" said Alice.
"That's what made the last will |
seem so strange to me. l don't see why
he didn't even mention the islanders,
when their ophthalmia was his hob.
by. I've profited by it; but can't help
the feeling that, now Pm all right, twill |
only be doing the fair thing to uncle's |
real inclinatiOns to give the original !
amount back to the institution, and to
give it in his name-so long as you are
willing"
ooh, I'd ratherp
"And l think we had perhaps best not
speak of it to your mother?"
Decidedly" said Alice.
1t was month or so after Alice's we'd
ding that an officer waited upon her one
morning with the request that she should
go to the city prison in order to identify
party suspected of breaking open the
Wamsutteag Bank on the same night
that Mrs. Magilvray's house had been
entered and the little flat tin box so
nearly made away with If Mrs. Des.
camps could identify the scamp, he could
be detained; otherwise, they would be
obliged to let him go, the officer had told
Eugene. "If he could be identified as
the wretch with whom Mrs. Descamps
had the struggle" he said, cit would be
a benefit to the community"
Is he so very bad?" she said, shiver-
ing.
Well, ma'am, he has been" the Off
Ger replied. "Just now he's been play.
ing off. We found him at a trade, with
some custom, and he begged hard to be
let off and left to lead an honest life.
That's his blind. Oh, he's bad 'un! Itn
only take a half hour"
"Oh, Eugene, can't go" she ex.
shrinking back and covering
her eyes. II couldn't be the means of
keeping him-and, oh couldn't see that
face again. 1t would drive me wild"
{" 1t made an impression" said the Of
ficer. "You're the very person we need,
Mrs. Descamps. haven't the power to