Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1908-08-22
A TALE OF A GLOVE

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which arrived a month ago, he had
gone through life contemptuous of but
tonholes, and I was a little taken
aback about that time when | ran
against him at a corner with a Mare
chal Mel at his breast. He whipped
it hurriedly into his pocket, and, being
kindly old gentleman. I pretended
not to notice.
But my faith in him was profoundly
shaken. Soon l learned that he was
conveying tasteful little buttonholes
into the house up his coat sleeve. aud
he blushed when he was asked about
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
companion
Pending Investigations the glove was
replaced in Albert's pocket in the nice
little piece Of tissue paper which pro
tected it. Then we watched Albert
Hitherto he had a habit of leaving the
room 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 wa
terfal back, and Albert, carried away
by his interest in the discussion, muir
INJURED "Redingote."
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 as,
certain for himself how much Ger.
trude, who is fourteen, measured round
the waist Not being accustomed tC
these attentions, Gertrude liked them
at first. but it was soon borne in upon
her, though she was only fourteen
that her brother was experimenting or
her for private reasons Of his own.
It must | think, have been a week
after the discovery of the glove in
Albert's pocket that he asked his moth
err, with an artificial yawn, whether !
So was not a small size in gloves fol
a lady. Then his mother asked me tc |
go delicately to work and find out |
what was Albert's condition and who |
she was.
I thought l would leave it to Albert |
to tell me who she was, but / expert /
mented on him to discover his condi !
ton Nothing, l feel, could have been
more delicate than the way set about
it. He carried the glove in an inside
pocket, over the spot where Albert |
thought his heart was. Taking advan
tage Of a favorable moment, I got at
the coat and changed the glove to an.
other 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 a simple youth for all
his cunning, evidently thinking that he
had put the glove into the wrong peck.
ct himself Then I hazarded bolde1
step. Again taking possession of the
glove, I dropped 1t in corner Of the
rawing room.
That evening Albert came back from
the Office In a perturbed state of mind.
| watched him on his knees in the hall
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
finging his things about in his bed
room. 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
unsuspecting Albert was necessarily
putting Ills uaHu 1Alo ea1t ihoIue PUN ]
ct | saw that there was once more
a 81 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 after pas
gazing on it in secret.
But the awakening came when |
concealed the little glove in a vase on
the smoking room mantelpiece. AL
bert ran it to earth in a day and
half without saying word on the
subject to anybody unless possibly
the housemaid. When next felt for
it in his pocket it was not there From