Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-12-29
CHAPTER XIV.
A FRIEND.

IN lhe first place, he had simplitied
Management OF his interests, taking
sm his capital what he needed as it be-
me necessary; he received no one and
never read the papers. His sole occu-
zion consisted in looking up unfor-
mates, 10 console them, and in righting
wrongs Of others when he had an OPP
lfnnity so to do. The remainder OF his
me he spent in the realm OF fancy, that
| to say, in dreaming OF impossible
|t1goslty and chimerical expeditions.
t must be admitted that in his career
beneiactor OF the poor and II de-
\ ier Of the weak, his usual i'll luck had
ceased to pursue him. lie never
/ boil any suffering but that which was
Ep willing to be alleviated by the sim
giving OF money, and all his eXpedi-
|is were easy and void OF excitement.
Il had scarcely a chance OF risking his
for the sake OF others, excepting two
/ three times at fires, three times in the
fter, and four or five times in duels.
These varied exploits had won him the
kme Of Casse-Cou, which he accepted
'thout yexation. But he was not
hppy.
THE perpetual toll which went on in his
brain kept Cambremer in a state OF per-
manent excitement and for want OF suffi-
cient nOurishment, his physical and
moral activity threatened to destroy him.
he wore out his heart by always feeding
with some noble cause, and his brain
by suffering it to dwell perpetually upon
FnerOus projects. At the height of such
Acdsis as this, he would sometimes make
n his mind to divert himself a little, and
then fairly worn out would make use OF
Reright OF entry which his former social
eltons had procured for him, to go to
N Odeon to see some tragedy Of the old
flo0I, Or, still less often, to see the first
'fHOrmance OF Il new play. 1t was Il
fance like this that, ON this memorable
Fenng, had at last thrown him in the
yOlan adventure such rs he had been
The lookout for ever since his boyhood.
his Opnion-and he knew all about
tlgeTolS yenturcs-all promised we'll
me success OF the task he was about
"A begin. Prosecuted innocence to
%enge, wlckedness to punish, II wan
Gtff TO bring back to the right path ,
ons was wanting in the programme
&N,I might have tempted Amadis de
XIV himself. And, by rare good luck i,
IGs had found ut the very outset
Ef'Igent and devoted auxiliaries. Nine.
&Mss and her daughter were at hand
ne very moment when needed, 10
IN charge OF the child who might have
III IN the way OF the Odyssey now
n lle ready.
(lmbremer had seen the mode OF life
N TWO neighbOr5 for more than two
In and leIt the deepest admiration
"A "enl' The likeness that existed in
Sllow mlslOrtunes and his own,
ea TO their first acquaintance; the
89 contemplation Of the virtues OF
I.r' N,ongls had done the rest. On the
Q, the cheyalier, discreetly cx.
leu sympathy was met by the same
Ht part OF the mother and daughter
''i required such an occurrence rs
"I1cuious rescue OF the child tC
w. I'e ladies' from the second story
, vaIO'emer's rooms, where he never
1"'gg' any one to enter ii he coulC
ar good Francis concentrated him
,y "" E'' inns, as he turned over tn,
''%o OIL hls old romance; but still more
u" jha'lhg succeeded in bringing into
ott'gGn'ulouS plans 80 quiet and peace
Guc'is US Cassonndc. Without adj
nv, ~"s \ 1t 10 himself, Cumbremcr had on
NM A. ,'o'' one occasion admired and en-
A "c sound good sense which natur,
,"uoWed the grocer with, and nov
NJ i "t considered himself IA bound I,
mi I,y'esIS and welfare Of others, In
s'oatly upon so rational helper
4, 'iavS Nourapled, called Cassonnde
,es ,ln Ut the llalles, where his parent
/, , "o''''IS more than huckslcrs. II
h hn,YY loars younger than the Chcvu
blri,I "' was lar beyond him i'm tn
clen,T science oI life; and eXperienc
5o, G Fought in carrying ON two or tire
DIV viu ualcs, enabled him TO dea
NM. J', u the ordinary difficulties whic
lnnJ ,ahnnremor lie had been a
4 ll GnaWll' 'hrn a clerk, then u scrvanI
3 lmdro""S n',l become the husband OF
igo iiI ,n, ana had succeeded in purchai
lh.r cn ",,,o grocery shop which gave hin
4 ban no ouE'' To- live This was the yer
4 h. o pOJo'I to complete the good qual
EevoIion, diminish the defects of III
bon ,E va"lG,brcmer, by dinl of meditatin
laoDoma' advantages OF Cassonnde's Al
laaI sn., concluded that ho was sure
Exam G ,o He shut up hi5 book, an
4 Re moWnlAor the room, thinking oy,
. Nem"rn,iGer m which he would emplc
n hDodnII' Of the following day. II
4 'donovn. IT., IT., begin with his Young char
\ lIi o"cN "',s sleeping in the next room
"Ilru To him IA find ant ,,hntL,