Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-09-12

piONSN "a MN ao lhabhcA he NhisN, bASlO
| fore must approve of him as your partner
! for lifer'
81 didn't disapprove of him as your part
| ner at whist" Trix said so drolly that it
was not possible for her idolizing father to
helm laughing
e3ut don't and won't give my consent" "
he said, checking his laugh, and so to say,
retracting it by speaking very doggedly.
"Oh, yes, you will, when the solicitors
offer him briefs even without their daugh,
ters,o she said coaxingly, while she swayed
her father back and forward In his chair.
"There it isl That's it'll If he only took
his profession seriously, or could get any
one in the profession to take him seriously
You might wait, Trix, to meet some one
with some promise or prospect of some
thing"
"That's just what l mean to do, father
| told BERTHE last night would marry no
man who hadn't distinguished himself"
"Oh, well, that settles it, her father an
swered dryly.
Trix had the tact to press the point no
further for the present. Her father, like all
leading barristers, undertook more than he
could attempt, and attempted more than
he could competently perform, and mt pres
ent he was simply overwhelmed with work.
After heavy day at the courts he re
burned to Il harassed and hurried dinner.
MY dear | never was so worried in my
lifel'' he exclaimed to Trix after he had
kissed her, which he did always when he
had been absent even for a few hours from
her. There's McAllister's gone and got
the Influenza"
He's with me in two or three Ribchester
rases, and there's one on tomorrow that
I've been depending upon him to master
and manage almost altogether" pointing
to IA brief beside his plate. II must tackle
It after dinner with the help of strong
cup of coffee"
but you're due at Euston at 9:30."
"Oh, an hour or so will give me its sub
stance, and | can beat it into shape in the
train
Having dispatched his dinner he was
proceeding to open the brief, when Mr.
Frederick Flint, senior partner in the fa-
nous firm of solicitors, Flint, Affleck &
Co., was announced. He had come upon
urgent business, which was found to neces-
state an immediate consultation with At
torney General Weevil.
After their departure Trix sat down to
write her promised letter, which she had
deferred until now in the hope of having
SOlltlnlllS IiloIt-uId ptIDupS DiolS laNOi-
able to record. As, however, her father
had been too much hurried and worried to
be spoken to upon the subject at dinner
she could report only the mornings inter
view.
Having mt last finished her letter she
went into the study to look into her fathers
desk for a stamp, and here lying upon the
desk she found a brief! Upon going to see
Mr. Flint her father must have taken it
with him into the study, laid it on the desk,
: and then forgotten it in his absorption with
, more important case. What now was to
be done2 Half an hour since the train had
started from Euston, and there was prob
ably no other tonight for Ribchester
Upon looking into an A b G guide, however
she found that a train left Kings Cross fol
that town at 4:30 a. m. and was due in
Ribehester at 9:45, and by this she could
| send the brief.
But if the case was to come on tomorrow
her father would not have time to read-not
to say master-the brief. Why not send
BERTHE both as messenger and as "juniorY
He'd have five hours to study the brief be
fore starting, and could, as her father said
beat the case into shape in the train.
/, What chance for him-and for her!
She rang the bell, sent for her maid and
, bid her get ready at once to accompany hel
in II cab to Selden street. Within three
quarters of an hour they were there and
strange to say, found BERTHE there Wher
he had hurried down to her to the cab sh'
said breathlessly:
~ was afraid you'd be at some party"
"I'm due at 8, but waited in, expecting
letter." he said significantly She smiled
and blushed and rewarded him with th
sweetest of glances.
"Here is something BETTER" she said
handing him brief and proceeding to ex
plain all the circumstances of the case
. "It's great chance" she wound up with.
After drawing long breath he answered
almost too great-so much may depen'
upon it," And then be asked wistfully, Il
| there no letter."
! Nothing but that tonight" she said de
cisively. Remember, 4;30, Kings Gross
Telegraph from Ribehester Goodbye An
she drove resolutely away.
\ Every undistracted minute now was me
f., mentous to him and to her. Nevertheless
\ many of these precious minutes had slippe
by before BERTHE could force thoughts of he
from his mind and concentrate his entir
attention upon the brief.
This, however, he succeeded at last i
Y DONG, anu ne Tedu anu rtTtstu IL uhoil Ii
had thoroughly mastered its bearings. Ha,
, ing then marshaled its strong points i
logical sequence and with cumulative force
he paced the room to and fro, addressin
not an imaginary court, judge and jury
but only and always Weldon Wraxall, t
Q whom he paid the compliment also of a
! imitation Of his method and style.
: On his arrival in Ribchester he had
/ bath and hasty breakfast before hurryin
/ to the courts, where he soon found the en-
; inent Q. G.
"Halloo, Rayburnl Got many cases on9
he asked rather maliciously.
/ Zone, sir, l hope, with your consent"
5 "With my consent"
miss Wraxall was SO good as to send m
the brief you forgot-'Binns versus Habel
e tom which Ive got up, fearing you woul
! not now have time to look at it,"
1.-The brief forgot? Bins versus Hal
ertonY l have no such case on my list"
| ''NoP" exclaimed BERTHE in pitiable d.
] lection.
"No-phewl OF coursel It's that cas-
, McAlister had to throw up which Fir