The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-11-24
INTERESTING STORY.
JOE'S PEOPLE.

me q tub OF appie-butter and roll OF rag
carpet for a wedding present Because,
my mother-in-law's letter says, it isn't likely
have time to do up many preserves yet,
md the rag carpet will save me such
ieal of trouble in scrubbing the kitchen
ioor."
Miss MILAN put up her eyeglasses will
\ click.
They must be regular pre- Raphaelites,'
Iaid she.
have never seen them," said Bessie
and / never mean to- OF course, when d!
married. Joe, / didn't expect to marry the
whole family. And SO 1 have given him
pretty plainly to understand.
Did he like it :" said Miss MILAN.
The bride tossed her head
don't know whether he did or not"
said she. " But it's Just as well to have all
these matters definitely settled ut :he very
outset"
Bessie Gale was an ideal br.le-very
'retty, very frivolous, full of vague ides
hat life was pilgrimage of roses, and that
was her mission to enjoy herself as mucl
IS possible. She had stepped almost directl,
rom the recitation-room of fashionabl
school to the altar.
Mr.. Gale" Joe,n as Bessie called him
was the assistant cashier in bank, with o
good income and sunny temper. He
regarded his young wife as little less than
perfection, although he found it difficult to
reconcile her type of womanhood with that
Embodied in his mother and sisters, and the
lear old aunts who had alternately scoldet
nd spoiled him in the days of his boyhood
Do you think it is necessary to keel
three girls" said he one day, " with ou
small family, Bessie ?"
81 couldn't get along with less," sale
young Mrs. Gale, "unless, lifting her large
gazelle-like eyes reproachfully to his face,
you want me to make perfect drudge OF
myself
My mother will come here, il you like
'essy, and instruct you in"
No, she won't" quickly interrupted
FRS Gale, coloring to the roots of her love.
auburn-gold hair. "rll have nc
nother-in-law in this house."
Joe looked hurt, but he said nothing
more.
Mary MILAN snys | must be resolute
or | shall be conquered" thought the bride.
And when Helen and Honora Gale, her
husbands sisters, from Primrose Hollow,
elegraphed that they were coming to New
FORK for days shopping, aud would
unch with their new sister, Bessie wired
,ack most uncompromsing message tina
1t would not be convenient" and i'm.
nediately invited Miss MILAN to eat a crat
lunch with her at Delmonico's upon the
same day.
Oh, you're doing splendidly,n said Mis-
MILAN to her, when she learned of thi
deed of prowess " They'll soon get tiret
Of obtruding themselves on you at thi,
rate."
All this diplomacy, however, did not pro-
tect honest Elihu Gale, her husbands elder
brother, from dropping unexpectedly in
lpon them one evening, when they were
entertaining few friends at q little supper
previous to q theatre party.
Joe, ursophisticated mortal, joyfully
welcomed the young giant from the rural
districts, and made room for him, as if lie
lad bean guest of honor; but Mrs. Gale
parsel up her cherry lips and scarcely in.
clined her head when Joe called out:
" Bessie, my darling, this is my brothe
Elihu. Wasn't it fortunate that he chance,
10 come in this evening, of all others, whei
We are going to the theatre"
Joe enjoyed it, certainly. SO did Elihu
But Mrs. Gales displeasure was but toe
evident.
" Sister" said the young man, bluntly,
when the moment arrived for him to take
his leave, I" I'm afraid you are not glad to
see me-"
To tell you the TRUTH" said Bessie,
arigidly, g am not"
" Nor" said Elihu Gale. Why not ?"
&C Because said Bessie, 81 think it will
be altogether better if my husbands family
and see rs little as possible of each other.
We belong to different world as yourself
must see. 1t is impossible that we should
hermonize."
Think so, ELI ?" said Elihu.
'' / am certain Of it," declared Bessie.
So Elihu Gale went back and gave his
mother and sisters description of Joe's
wife.
Scarcely six months had elapsed, how
ever, when cloud of vague, unanticipated
trouble doomed up on the horizon. Mr..
Gale went abroad on some mission for the
bank, to be gone severa, weeks and, Il
he surprise of all concerned, he did no,
eturn when the allotted time was up.
" 1 always thought So" said Miss Mil
ian, with shrug of her velvet-draped
,xtravagantly for people of their means.
Johnson" Ito the seryant) "if Mrs. Gale
calls hero and asks TO see me, mind, arr
not at home"
Bessie was bewildered. Cold glance
we're turned towards her; suspicious whis-
pers met her ear one very side Miss MILAN
openly cut her in the street, and trades
men sent in their bills, with various degrees
of insolent persistency.
What does it all mean p she said to
herself, with a creeping chill at her heart.
Why does not Joe write, or telegraph OF
omething? What shall I do? I cannot
annot live So
In the midst of her fearful perplexit,
there came prodigious humping at tb.
door, and in walked Joe's tall brotha
Elihu.
What, crying, little Bessie said lie,
kindly. "This won't do. What is it all
about 2"
"My husband I" sobbed Bessie, glad to
,est her throbbing head against the tender
I'm. They say he has embezzled tn
ank's money-that he is a-defaulter ~
"Then they are uttering pack of lies,'
said Elihu, cheerfully. "And you and
sister-in-law, ought to know that, if no on
else does"
The landlord has put up bill ON tn
house." faltered Bessie. And the butcher
and baker won't serve me any longer-and
;hat odious dressmaker has sent in her bill
and people look the other way when the,
meet me, and pretend not to see mo Oh,
what is to become Of me p
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