The morning call., 1890-11-23

of dealers in coats-of-arms to prove thelr
lineage. At the date which marks the
opening of this veraciOuS chronicle, the
Updegraffs were living IN large o.d-fash-
toned brick house, she very newest portion
of which dated as far back as 1890, while
the oldest, the kitchen part, was built OF
brick brought over TO Nieuw Amsterdam in
the snip Coed Vrau by Captain Nicholas
Updegratf while Peter Stuyvesant was Gov
eInOr.
The family, in the year of our Lord 1866
Was made up of a sort of collection of ShredS
and,patches of generations, the oldest MEM
-bers being Eliphalet, commonly called
Uncle Iiph," man of 20 odd, the last of
bis side Of the house; mild-mannered old
gentleman whose days and good part OF
Whose nights were spent reading the news
kapers and working out problems in differ
entail calculus. for he had wonderful
talent and taste for mathematics. Then
came Ammi, the hero of this rather strange
story, if such an ordinary looking little man
may be called hero, the only child of the
late Alderman Jacobus UPdegraff. After
him should be named Rachael Tuttle, his
wife, woman as eager to do her duty and
her >vhole duty as Ammi was persistent in
his efforts to prevent her. OF Rachael more
as this narrative shall unfold Itself. There
was one more inmate of the old homestead
at Harlem, to. wit: AMI Updegran-you
perceive the family had a great liking for
Bible names-a half-brother OF AmmTs,
man verging toward the fftieS, and, as has
been stated tall and handsome. AMI was
a lawyer, but his only clients were his uncle
'Liph, his half brother Ammi and himself.
For several years after the close of the
war Ammi had been in the habit of spend
ing July and August fishing IN Canada upon
whom he saw and what be did no one knew
at home, for few hasty lines scrawled
: upon an occasional postal card TO Rachel or
AMI would be the only news from him dur
. ing his two months absence. Rachel didn't
E. think anything of this. Ii was an agreeable
break i'll the molOtOny of his neglect of her.
BY the time summer arrived she had become
reasonably tired of Ammi's evenings at
home the first third of each of which he
devoted with extraordinary scrupulosity to
his cigar-like a true Dutchman always
= smoking in silence; the second third to his
evening paper, and the third third to nap
in his chair, after which he went TO bed.
:, June was in her last week when Ammi en-
tered his half-brothePs library one fine
morning, looking more than usually glum
: and disgfuntled. He worked his lips like
man who has bad taste in his mouth. and
then sat down at one end of his brothers
desk and made an effort to swallow some
thing that apparently wouldn't go down.
=. % Amzi," he began, I'm going a-fshing
"a next week"
: The lawyer looked up with pleasant
: smile.
'"And ] want to change my will; have
new one GIawn in TACT
"Ha, HAP came from AMI.
:: Now, don'tP burst out Ammi, ''for
heavens sake, don't begin your Internal
: trifiing. This is serious matter. | have
had presentiment for whole week that
I'm going to die, and before | go away on
!. priyftf memoranda which l always carry
. .eproIertt ,ne in concealed pocket of my
*'1jrh the liz Tide, remember. One of these
Pas or aliestcs to the manner in which de-
sire ~ nave my remains disposed OF. The
F: Others contain certain directions which /
them in my will; but it will only become
necessary TO give them force and effect in
case Rachael should outrage my memory by
marrying that man Cheyaier."
. Animi paused to catch his breath aud
:: proceeded as follows: "And now, AMI, as
TO the necessary change in my will SO as to
cut off all possibility of any of my money
ever being used to pay for the fast horses,
wine bills and fine clothes of that vain. lazy,
good for nothing fellow, Phil Chevaier!"
"Still drumming that old wire, Ammi ?"
cried his brother thrusting his hands into
his pockets and letting himself slip down
-; into his chair until he had struck a COM
Portable position.
sorrow of my life,, groaned Ammi. 81 tell
you. AMI, Rachers soul went out to that
4nan, and-and-"
:. ..Oh, bahp' exclaimed the lawyer.
: !" Racheps soul is all right, but in heavens
name how is one soul going to be soulful all
by itself ? The fact of the matter is,
A mmi, you never should have got married.
Il told.you so at the time. aud so did Uncle
:; 'Eiph. Rachel Tuttle had been accustomed
to be hundred and petted by her parents,
:: :: and You expected her to smile and look
. pleasant IN the presence Of man who
: rarely laughs, who never jokes himself or
:: allows any one to joke with him. OF course,
Dneie Liph and 1 excuse you; we know
the condition of your liver
'Stuh, interrupted Ammi, my liver is
all right now. DR.. Won Todwalter, the eel
:" ehrated German physician, made a thorough
examination of me last week. and he assures
me tn It there is only very slight Tend ency
td hepatolithiasis in the collie lobe, and that
all symptoms of induration in the lobula
now display a benignity which is quite reas-
surfing. Nor are there any symptoms of q
hob-nailed surface"
Il known, l know, Ammi," replied his
brother, '.but that doesn't help matters out.
:: If you'll pardon my criticism, must say
newer saw man who understood women
less than you. Why woman is like a
child, she must be spoiled to get at the real
sweetness of her affection. Her humors,
her wilkins, her unreasonableness, these are
the bitter rind which incloses the sweet kerr
:: mel"
Stuff. AMI, stuff, say" CALCULATED his
brother. - on may be good lawyer, but
you don't know as much about women as
=, you think. L tell you Rachel has made up
--her. mind not to be happy. She doesn't
want to be happy. She is too stubborn to
be happy. She's determined that her life
Shall be one long, deep, agonizing regret
foF her lost love"
s'Bosh !" exclaimed The lawyer. contemptu-
otisly. 81 don't believe word Of it, Do as
:. l. say, and you'll see what change will
take place in her. Laugh and joke with
: her, romp with her, play puss in the corner
:; with her. or better yet, pillows and keys!
Ha ! ha; lia! don't sit and watch her as a
terrier does cat, to keep her from tapping
the milk of gladness. Hug her, kiss her,
bite her cheeks, ha, ha, hal"
Kiss ber?" Qr0wled AMI. why !