Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-06-14

Guile poetry. and 10 disbelievs in the
utility of any emotion deeper than a
desire to pass ones time agreeably.
He informed his friends-and he had
many of them, being a companionable
fellow and popular by reason of his
many excellent qualitieS-that his creed
was made up of two beliefs: One. that
men and women had become so thor
oughly accust omed to shams that they
couldn't now be sincere if they want
ed to; the other. that the principal
aim and endeavor of every human be-
ing was to enjoy himself, no matter
how thickly the secret object might be
veneered with an outward show of I'm.
selfishness.
cynicism, and as unobtrusive as the
wearer of it was personally modest.
He rarely paraded his theories before
his friends, and when de did SO his
! diatribes were tinged with a wit that
robbed them of their harshness. His
profession probably had something to
do with the molding of his opinions;
for he was lawyer. and as such, &C.
customed to view humanity from the
windward side. Possessed of a paying
practice, young, passably handsome,
unusually intelligent-for lawyer
and, on the top of it all, a bachelor, it
is not to be wondered at if Ferdinand
Trent, attorney at law, was a more
than ordinarily popular young man.
On this particular evening, all alone
in his prettily-furnished library,
young Mr.. Trent was not exactly sat-
isfed with himself To party of
friends-vouthful careless fellows like
himself whom he had just dismissed,
he had betrayed the first uneasiness of
temper they had known him to exhibit
in years. O1e of them, q youth for
whom the lawyer had never evinced
strong degree of attachment, had seen
fit to banter him concerning the good
looks of his amanuensis. This useful
appendage to his law-otnce MI. Trent
had engaged some three months pre-
viously, nd discovered in her verita-
| BILE Jewel. He had not liked her at
first. She was far too handsome to
| suit him; he never did like pretty
women, he said, because they were
| .ither as vain as peacocks or destined
! in the natural order of events to be-
| come so. But little Miss Morrison
had pleaded so prettily for trial, and
given such complete satisfaction in
the course of that trial, that he had
swallowed his preiudices and engaged
her. good looks and all.
He was waiting for her now, having
requested her to come to his house
that evening to take some dictation
for transcription the following morn
ing As he listened for the sound of
wheels he was thinking that he wished
he either had not employed her, or
else that he possessed the ability
to occasionally forget his dignity
and his principles and punch
young Darnforth's head. Then he fell
to laughing at himself for wasting so
much thought on typewriter girl
who'd probably experience thrill
of vanity if she'd overheard the con-
VofSduOn, he uuIteFcu Will Il Suuu.
der No, he would never believe that
of her. She really did seem too sem
| sible for that sort of nonsense.
Hark! Mr. Trent's coupe had stop
ped outside, and Mr.. Trent himself went
to the door. As he opened it he rang
little bell on the hail table and his
housekeeper. an elderly lady of dig
| nified, matronly aspect who knew
what was expected of her. descended
the staircase and passed on into the
parlor, just outside the library. en-
sconscing herself in big rocking
| chair with volume of Thackeray
This excellent dame, during the hour
and halt which followed, watched
Mr.. Trent rather curiously. His man
ner toward the young woman who sat.
busy with notebook and pencil, at the
big walnut desk, was that of prince
toward a great lady. During their
occasional pauses tor rest he made in
quiries as to her health and that of her
| entire family circle, Intercepted her
as to opinions on various matters con-
| nected with the Office and in other
ways threw a vail over the distance
that lay between employer and de-
pendent Moreover. when he had oc-
casion tn refer to a memorandum on