Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-08-23
x A TILE OF A GLOVE p


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 l was little taken aback about that
time when l ran against him at corner
with Marechal Mel at his breast. He
whipped it hurriedly into his pocket, and,
being a kindly old gentleman, 1 pretend
ed not to notice.
But my faith in him WAS profoundly
shaken. Soon l learned that he was con-
veying tastef IL little buttonholes into tie
house up his coat sleeve, and he blushed
when he was asked about a tumbler in
his bedroom. Then his mother found
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 it's long lost compan-
ion.
Pending Investigations, the glove was
replaced in Albert's pocket in the nice
little piece of tissue paper which protect
ed it. Then we watched Albert. Hith-
erto he had a habit of leaving the room
when the conversation took a feminine
turn. But now q 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
it 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 IA, measured round the waist. Not be-
ing accustomed to these attentions, Ger
trude liked them at first, but it was 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
size in boots Gertrude required and smil-
ed to himself when told. Gertrude, who
| large feet, did not like this.
1t 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 51a was not
small size in gloves for lady. Then his
mother asked me to go delicately to work
and find out what was Albert's condition
and who she was.
l thought l would leave it to Albert to
| tell me who she was, but l experimental
ON him to discover his condition. Moth
| ing, l feel. could have been more delicate
| than the way l set about it. He carried
| the glove in an inside pocket, over the
| spot where Albert thought his heart was.
| Taking advantage of a favorable moment,
| I got at the coat and changed the glove
to another pocket.
The next time l had an opportunity for
| it, it 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
| hazarded 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 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 flinging his things
about in his bedroom. He said not q
word about his loss, however, to any one.
Next morning l was surprised to see
him bright and cheerful. 1 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 l saw
| that there was once a 51a 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 accidentally-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
| it to earth in a day and a half without
| saying word on the subject to any
body, unless possibly the housemaid.
| When next l felt for it in his pocket, it
was not there. From that time Albert
| and l were playing at hide and seek.
When / was not looking for the glove, he
was. l found it inside the case of his
| cricket bat and dropped it behind the
afterward l got it under a corner of the
| carpet in his bedroom. Then / hid it
| 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 614, eight buttons.
Then | went to Albert's mother and
told her he was cured.-New York News.