Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-02-14

| soo,L ~ ~ o"o WIFE, l tried II
me. A"'Stieton' but he interrupted
VOW, there Is another point desir,
70 urge TwistIeton always smoke a,
,hough he was addressing the Court q
appeal. when l asked NV vito !,
come back to-day, she point blank "a
FUSED. What do you think Of tbatp'
Nothing whatever" / answered.
one nad arranged to stay, and vo,
are going down on Saturday again
mink you are making mountains ont
of molehills." ou
y hope am, Penrose; Ihope am. ;,
repiiea Iwistleton mournfully; "bu,
you didn't see them-I did," and Twis.
Teton sighed deeply.
men the subject dropped, and We
got 70 work on small case. Soon
iw,stieton, with self-complacent
smile on his countenance, was PLAYING
an opinion on his typewriter. It was
70 MN, believe. as though each motto
ne struck produced deep mellow tone
ana not capital or SIN Ill Roman. !
Ia "heh IWlstletOn first
hao MS typewriter. In those days he
USED TO sit at it for hours, practising.
hitting first one note and then tho
o'her' at intervals varying between
ten seconds and two or three m;nutas
every now and then using the mos,
horrible language, as he put capital
aor a small Roman or missed a SPACE
Ihen his efforts looked as though thew
were the productions of six drunken
printers who had each taken an absent
comrades work for the day; and thew
were always copied before they went to
ne clients. Now the machine went
enck, click, click. evenly and merrilv,
Iwistleton was perfect master Of i
nave seen him write with it with his
eyes shut. l have no doubt that II be
could have stood on his head, and II II
iiaa been consonant with the dignity of
a queens counsel to do so, he could
have playe d his instrument in that
posture.
The opinion finished, Twistleton
VINO was . very methodical man. nut a
fresh sheet OF paper in readiness to
commence again, folded and signed
what he had written, and bade
me goodnight. His last words TO
me were:
II hope you are right about Charley
Colston."
Il am sure of it." said.
II wish were"
Tomorrow we were to have a 1ono
day at Buncombe versus Badger.
When arrived in the morning Twis-
Teton was at breakfast l no sooner
entered than he set down his cog
spoon, and. rushing to me with a
piece OF paper. thrust it into nv
hands.
Read that" he cried excitedly-
"read that"
l noticed that Twistleton seemed un-
well. There was wild look in his
eyes. His chop was untouched-a re-
versal of Twistleton's procedure at
breakfast, which was more extraordi-
nary to me than his strange appear
ance. The egg he was eating was to
to any one with sense OF smell, mani
testify bad one; most pretentous
fact to me, who remember hearing
Twistleton-who never knew any crimi-
nal law-seriously tell the boy from
the Cock" that he believed bill of
attainder would lie against him for
bringing him a bad egg. What did it
all meanP Hooked at the paper in my
hand; on it were two words, neatly
printed Charley Colston."
| stared blankly at Twistleton What
did it meanP Twistleton was shaking
visibly.
"Do you believe in ghostsp" he
asked anxiously.
Certainly not" replied.
"Ah!'' sighed Twistleton, and added
sententiously: There are more
things in Heaven and earth than are
dreamt of in your philosophy -"
This was the only quotation 1 ever
heard him utter that did not come
from the Law Reports. I believe he |
fancied it was phrase he had in
vented in his early youth when he first
began to believe in ghosts.
If you don't believe in ghosts who
wrote that message on my type
writer?"
Twistleton's manner was very inn
pressive. l felt like q witness COM
perjury.
II tell you, found it this morning
when | went to write letter just be-
fore breakfast. Who wrote it?" he
shouted. "Who wrote it? l will
know"
Perhaps Foss,' suggested
He has not been here, and can't use
the typewriter.
l had heard him say so, but did not
believe it. Foss was afraid of over
working himself, and so did not choose
to learn it, but any fool could use it if
he liked to learn. My opinion was that
Foss could use it. He was like the
who as the negro said, could
talk if they would, but knew if they did
they would be made to work. "
How about the laundressP" l sug-
gested.
.'Ah! the laundress, repeated Twis-
Teton, thoughtfully; 1.-THE laundress.
So Mrs Buttick, the laundress, was
sent for when Foss came in; but she de-
MED all knowledge of the typewriter OF
the writing, making new suggestion,
u,b;ch did not tn our thinking, much