Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-12-01
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1t was an odor Of roses about my
nephew that led to the discovery Of the
glove. Up to his nineteenth birthday,
which arrived month ago, he had gone
through life contemptuous of buttonholes,
and | was little taken abaCk about that
time when | ran against him at n corner
with Marechal Mel at his breast. He
whipped it hurriedly into his pocket, and,
being a kindly old gentleman, | pretend
ed not to notice.
But my faith in him was profoundly
shaken. Soon | learned that he was con
veying tastef Il little buttonholes into IL
house up his coat sleeve, and he bushed
when he was asked about a tumbler in
his bedroom. Then his mother found a
six button glove, size 81, in his pocket.
which none of us could identify.
For some days he had only one glove
himself, which he carried spread out in
his hand to look like two. We could not
think that this was its long lost compan-
ion.
Pending investigations, the glove was
replaced in Alberts pocket in the nice
little piece Of tissue paper which protect
ed 1t. Then we watched Albert. Hith-
u
when the conversation took a feminine
turn. But now a change came over him.
He sat on when his mother talked with
his aunt over the relative merits Of styles
Of gowns, and, though he pretended to be
reading his book, he was really drinking
In the conversation.
On one occasion he came out of his
shell in a remarkable manner. The two
ladies were asking each other what was
the other name for the waterfall back,
and Albert, carried away by his interest
In the discussion, murmured, "Redin-
cote"
His mother and his aunt looked at him
In amazement. which made Albert turn
both white and red. Not long afterward
1t leaked out that he knew what "sailor
collars" were and liked pale pink ones.
Albert even began TO take an interest
In his sisters dresses.
Once he was discovered trying to ascer-
tain for himself how much Gertrude, who
Is a. measured round the waist. Not be-
Ing accustomed to these attentions, Ger
trude liked them at first, but it vas soon
borne in upon her. though she was only
IA, that her brother was experimenting
on her for private reasons OF his own.
Albert was also curious TO know what
ed TO himself when told. Gertrude, who
has known since she was that she has
large feet. did not like this.
Ii must, think, have been a week aft
er the discovery OF the glove in Albert's
pocket that he asked his mother, with an
artificial yawn, whether 5I5 was not a
small size in gloves for a lady. Then his
mother asked me to go delicately to work
and find out what was Albert's condition
and who she was.
| thought | would leave Il to Albert to
tell me who she was. but / experimental
on him to discover his condition. Moth
ing, ! feel, could have been more delicate
than the way | set about ii. He carried
the glove in an inside pocket, over the
spot where Albert thought his heart was.
Taking advantage OF favorable moment,
i got at the coat and changed the glove
to another pocket.
The next time / had an opportunity for
1t, II was back In the old place again.
This happened several times, Albert, who
is simple youth for all his cunning. evil
IDENTIFY thinking that he had put the glove
into the wrong pocket himself. Then l
hozarded a holder step. Again taking
possession OF the glove, dropped it in a
corner Of the drawing room.
That evening Albert came back from
the Office in n perturbed state of mind.
watched him on his knees in the kall
looking for something. and when he saw
me he pretended TO be unlacing his shoes.
He wandered from room to room and was
subsequently, heard 1inging his things
about in his bedroom. He said not a
word about his loss, however. to any one.
Next morning | was surprised to see
him bright and cheerful. / went into
the drawing room, and behold the glove
was gone. From the way the unsus-
pecting Albert was necessarily putting
his hand into that inside pocket | saw
that there was once n 5la glove in IT, |
had feared that Albert would treasure it
somewhere else now; but no, he evidently
thought that he had dropped it in the
drawing room ccidentally-perhaps aft
er passionately gazing on it in secret.
But the awakening came when l con-
cealed the little glove in a vase on the
smoking room mantelpiece. Albert ran
II TO earth in a day and half without
saying a word ON the subject to any
body, unless possibly the housemaid
When next | felt for il in his pocket, it
was not there. From that time Albert
and were playing at hide and seek.
When l was not looking for the glove, he
was. l found it inside the case of his
cricket bat and dropped it behind the
piano. Albert searched it out, and soon
afterward got il under a corner of the
carpet in his bedroom. Then / hid II
among some music, knowing that Albert
would look there last. All this time
did not know if he suspected who it was
that was playing with him. l do not
know now, for We have never opened our
minds on the subject.
Albert did not find the glove among
the music. When two days had passed.
put it in an easier place, for Albert was
bearing his disappointment bravely. Still
he did not find it. Next flung it on the
floor Of his bedroom, and Albert did not
seem to see it. laid it on his mantel-
piece, and he let it remain there. At last
it struck me to look in Albert's pocket
again. There was another glove in it
size GA, eight buttons.
Then | went to Albert's mother and
told her he was cured.-New York News.
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