The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-29
give it to me nurse do,n said her hus-

Give it to me nurse-I do,n said her hus-
band.
From that moment he gave all the pent up
affection of his bruised soul to this little
daughter, and as the years went on they
grew very dear to each other But an active
minded, strong hearted, able bodied man
cannot take q babe as sole companion of his
existence Probably Godfrey would have
found this out in time, and would have drift
ed into some mode of life more or less unde-
sirable had not an accident occurred to pre-
vent it. In his dotage his old uncle, Sir
Robert Bingham, fell victim to the wiles of
an adventures and married her. Then he
promptly died, and eight months afterward
posthumous son was born.
To Godfrey this meant ruin. His allow
ance stopped and his expectations vanished
at one fell swoop. he pulled himself to-
gether, however, as q brave hearted man
does under such a shock, and going TO lis
wife he explained TO her that he must now
work for his living, begging her to break
down the barrier that was between them and
give him her sympathy and help. She met
him with tears and reproaches. The one
thing that touched her keealy, the one thing
that she feared and hated was poverty. aud
and nature. But there was no help for it;
the charming house in Bolton street had to
be given up, and purgatory must be faced
in fiat near the Edgware road. Lady Ho-
noria was miserable; indeed, had it not been
that, fortunately for herself, she had plenty
of relations more or less grand, whom she
could go and visit, for weeks and even
months at stretch, she could scarcely have
endured her altered life.
But strangely enough, Godfrey soon found
that he was happier than he had been since
his marriage To begin with, he set to work
like a man, and work is a great source of
happiness to all vigorous minded folk. 1t is
not, it is true, a particularly lively occupa-
ton to pass endless days In hanging about
law courts among a crowd of unbriefed
juniors, and many nights in reading up the
law one has forgotten and threading the may
intricacies of the judicature act. But it so
happened that his father, younger brother
of Sir Roberts, had been a solicitor, and
though he was dead, and all direct interest
with the firm was severed, yet another uncle
remained in it, and the partners did not for
get Godfrey in his difficulties. They sent
him what work they could without offending
their standing counsel, aad he did it well.
Then by degrees he got quite large general
practice of the kind known as deviling. Now
there are few things more unsatisfactory thar
doing another mans work for nothing but
every case fought is knowledge gained, and
what is more it isadvertisement. So it CAME
to pass that within less than two years from
the date of his money misfortune, Godfrey
Bingham's dark, handsome face and square
strong form became very well known in tn,
courts
Whats the mans names" said one wei
known O. c. to another still more well known
as they sat waiting for their chops in the Bal
Grill Room, and saw Godfrey, his wig pushet
back from his forehead, striding through tn
doorway on the last day of the sitting, whicl
preceded the commencement of this history.
bingham" answered the other. He
only begun to practice lately, but he'll be a
the top of the tree before he has done. HI
married very well, you know, old Garsing
tons daughter a charming woman, and hand
some too.n
'He looks like it" grunted the first, and a
matter of fact such was the general opinion
For as Beatrice had said, Godfrey Bling
ham was man who had success written o
his forehead. 1t would have been almost in
possible for him to fail in whatever he under
took