Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-04-07
lis to come to after his davis work in Il

lis to come to after his days work in the
great machine shop was over.
Upon my word, y he said gaily, ST
think we're happier here than Myra in her
big house, with her parties and her visit
ing list, and her swarm of servants Do
you know, Oracle, almost felt at one
time that was doing wrong in marrying
you?' a s i.sEf.
"Wropg, Walter?'' # 81
"Myra seemed to think you were such
victim.' cg
''Do look like victim?' demurely
asked Grace lV sas
"Why, no, can't think you do, but I
wish I could have brought you to house
all your own, my pet. Never mind, some
/ day you shall reign in palace worthy Of
you"
Nonsense. W alter, could be happier
anywhere than with YOUR
''Are you happy, lover"
| She rose from her sest and came over to
her husbands side, looking full into his
face with eyes so eloquent that all the die
| tionariss in creation could not have spok en-
more plainly.
Yes. he knew that she was happy.
Mrs. Linley, too, thought that she was
happy, and pitied 'spoor, dear Gracie''
from the very bottom of her heart. No
servants, no silver napkin rings; no dou-
bic damask table-cloths with embroidered
monograms on them: no carriage; 40 Will
ton carpets nor brocatel curtains What
would life be without these? And then,
/ too, she lived 30 outlandishly; actually
dining in the middle of the day, and hav-
ing good fates pork and cabbage occa-
sionally, and fried onions Mrs. Liniey
was quite sure that such fearful eoncat-
enation of circumstances would be fatal to
her.
s'Of course we must continue to visit
them,'' said Myra. inhaling the Lubin per
fume from her Valenciennes-edged pocket
handkerchief, ''but really I am quite
ashamed to have our carriage seen IN sucl
a commonplace street."
''Shes your sister, said Mr.. Linley
land Genlis is good fellow, after all"
II know it-but common mechanic 7
And Myra took out her psarl tablets to
look over her visiting list.
Grace Genlis knew very well that Mrs.
Gustavus Linsy despised her and her low
estate, but Grace cared not two pins foi
that-why should she? Was she not bar.
py as Queen Victoria herself IN her snug
little house, with love to brighten the low
ceilings and beautify the maple wood fur
nitpre.
"Grace is pearl Of great price," thought
the young husband as he watched her thrift
ty housewifery, 'and some day she shall
shine in proper setting as well as Gus
tavus Linley's conceited doll of wife :
She shall, or my name is not Waiter Gen
lis!"
Mrs. Linley did not find herself entirely
inconsolable when after Genlis accepted
an offer from California firm to come out
as head machinest. her sister went away
Its just as WE'LL" thought Myra, ''fol
! l wanted TO give series of Germans thi'
winter, and L couldn't have invited them
and of course they would have been NOR
tally offended"
| And the years passed by, and Myra Lin
ley forgot to answer her sisters letters sc
often that, at length, Grace left off writ
ing, and Mrs. Linley became bright stal
in the world of fashion, and enjoyed the
false, artificial life as one enjoys the fever
ed excitement of any kind
One evening Mr.. Linley came in late
but he often did that. Myra glanced Ian
guidly up from the book she was skim
ming over, not because she enjoyed read
ing, but because it was fashionable vorh
and she wanted to say she had read 1t
and noticed that his face was perturbed.
| "What is the matter ?" she inquired .
little startled by his look.
ssThe NATTER returned Gustavus, seat
| ing himself deliberately before her, lis
| that we are ruined.''
! "What do you mean ?"
s'Simply that we are penniless-beggare
haven't cent in the world, and uebts
enough to sink the Spanish Armada !"
| Myra looked at him in blank dismay.
"And what are you going to do p
"Do? Why, do as other people do r.
savagely answered her husband. go in
to the second story of tensment house
and starve !"
Mrs. Linley fell into weak. sobbing hys-
staring modify at the floor.
ut must be horrible Dream" groaned
Myra; sit can't be true!"
But unfortunately it was true, and in
something less than week Mrs. Linley
| her husband, and her three children, found
themselves the inmates Of tawdry, third
rate boarding house, while Gustavus
vainly tried to obtain situation some
where as clerk and Myra cried and scol
dsd alternately, and wished SO many times
| day that she were dead, that Gustavus
finally lost all patience, and intlmated +,
darkly. that "he wished so too"
And then Myra called him horrid brute
and cried more persistently than ever.
IA carriage at the door, aud to see me
It can't be possible!" said Mrs. Linley,
peeping over the blinds of the window.
"It was Mrs. Gustavus Linley the lady
asked for, ma ANA bright, pleasant spo-
ken lady as ever SEEM said the maid of
all work who had brought up the message.
"Tell her to come up here" said Myra,
recklessly, as she hurriedly smoothed down
her neglected hair and twitched at the
buttons of her faded silk wrapper.
"Why, Grace Gsnlis, it isn't you ?"
1t was Grace Genlis, nevertheless, in a
superb black silk, and a priceless India
shawl, and real diamonds in her ears, but
Grace Genlis all the same--eager, loving
and impulsive.