The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-10-03

low of his clothes"
/ think the power b faint 1
me, or it would have asserted
that moment II the earth h}
denly opened at my feet, gladly
/ have sunk into the yawning cl
"Oh! Toni" / gasped. II Z
those things were yours, and l Ct
up and made them into that
wore to the station yesterday"
"Cut them up" exclaimed
CONSERVATION, which soon gave
uncomfortable laughter.
While he was laughing, l W
perately considering. l had
been considered truthful; | had
been truthful, whether from in
goodness or lack of temptation,
not say. but l have a humiliati
picion that it may have been the
as, now that temptation prese
self, / was willing to falsify, or
to have some one else do so
When Tom had subsidized sufficid
hear me, I said: Tell him sasmi
stole the clothes"
"A likely story" replied Tom, that
q tramp should find his way up into
my closet and select that particular suit
| of old clothes as booty"
well. tell him we thought the
| clothes were yours and gave them
away" 1 urged.
~ shall tell him the truth" said
Tom, in a ton of moral severity quite
unusual with him.
He went up to his room, where Mr.
Morey was waiting. A few moments
later l followed him up the steps and
slipped into my room, which ad
joined his, that | might see, or, rather,
hear, how he performed the delicate
task in hand. Other emotions were toe
strong within mt to permit me to fee
any scruples in playing .e~avesdropper.
When / reached my room l heard Tom
assuring Mr.. Morey, in a grave tone,
the frequent tremors of which gave
evidence of suppressed emotion, that
had deliberately appropriated the miss
ing articles to my w use.
Tom. You are trying to sell me-"
said Mr.. Morey.
NO she cut them u-u-p," replied
Tom, the crescendo on the word up
being caused by q burst of laughter,
land made"
determined to go in and explain the
matter myself. 1t would be easier
than meeting Mr.. Morey after he had
received Toms explanation. | don't
know what l said, but l made him IN.
derstand the situation, and he assured
me the matter waSspf no consequence.
81 should have had but little further
use for the Clothes" said he. 81 in
tended to take them home for my
mother to make over for my little
brothers; and | doubt not the boys
would give You a vote of thanks, il
they knew. for they don't like wearing
made-over garments"
My heart went out, at once, to tho
little brothers.
Mr.. Morey managed somehow, with
a delicacy of which l am sure no other
man could have been capable, to con.
vey to me a compliment on the feminine
ingenuity which could produce SO
pretty a garment from such poor
materials, and even expressed the hope
that / would continue to wear it But
that / averred l never could do again,
when Tom put in:
'See here, Bah, if you go On wearing
it, not even mother nee1 ever know
but what the things were mine; but if
you don't, the truth must come out,
and you never will hear the last of it
from Ludora and Isabella"
& ReHection convinced me of the truth
of the argument, and l concluded that
It would be- better to wear the jacket
occasionally, though I knew l should
always fesSe ''qussr" in 1t.
This ludicstuS incident made Mr..
Meey and ine{hel better acquainted
in1 aSsw dsyssthan we should other
w6kA5nye done in weeks; and that the
attsckI had made on his wardrobe did
not forever disgrace me in his mind was
proved by the fact that at the end Of
his visit he asked permission to write
to me, and within a year asked me to
be his wife.
/ have told this bit of personal ex-
%perience, not merely, as the casual
reader may suppose, to make known
how I happened to become Mrs Ran
dolph Morey, but to point the moral to
parents that the garments in which
their children are clad may seriously
affect the events which clothe their
life's history.-Martha Gion Sperbeck
In Demorest's Monthly.