Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1904-08-12

over HppafenI lack or honesty uuu re-
solved nt once TO ignore II.
"What do you wish me TO do7" he
continued after n moment II will do
the best can for you and am ready to
go to work now"
"You are to be at the Office at 3
o'clock sharp" replied Frye. "take
pne hour for lunch and remain till
g." Then he added by way Of spur
TO his slaves fidelity: IL am paying
you $75 a month on the recommend OF
an important client OF mine who want
ed to humor his son. II was your good
luck to have this sons friendship, az
he belongs to n wealthy family He
is q spendthrift. OF course, but that Is
no matter and all the better for US.
Take my advice and cultivate him all
you eau. IL may be the means of
bringing us more business. What l
say to you 1 shall expect you TO con-
slider a professional secret, and hope
you will mike good use of your time
when with this young friend OF yours
and heed well what have said to
you"
That ended the interview, and Albert
wns set at work copying legal docu-
mcnts and at the same time trying to
reconcile himself to his new surround
ings. That night he wrote to Alice:
II have hired out to most unmitigat-
ed old scouudrel and yet one OF the
sharpest lawyers l ever met. He as
sured me l must lay aside my con-
science If mean to succeed, and hint
ed that he might use me later on as
q sort of spy, upon Frank, imagine.
He employs stenographer of uncer-
tain age. who comes in aud takes die
tation and does her work outside. The
only stupid thing he has said was to
warn me not to hirt with her"
Then he wrote to his friend Frank,
telling him where he was located,
thanking him for his assistance and
begging him to call at an early date.
After that he smoked for an hour In
glum silence. His room was small
and cheerless and in comparison with
his home quarters a mere den. But 1t
was question of saving, and the lux
ury of space even he could not afford.
i HeEt 10 nO LuOEc iOucbOAnc piuCc AZ
the wide world than great city to
one born and bred amid the freedom
of the wide fields and extended wood
lands, as Albert had been, and now thnt
&c vas -shhssitt IN by brick walls ali day
and imprisoned In one small room mt
night, with a solitary window opening
on an area devoted to ash barrels and
garbage, 1t made him homesick.
He was a dreamer by nature and
loved the music of running brooks, the
rustllng of winds in the forest and the
song of birds. The grand old noun
tains that surrounded Sandgate had
been the delight of his boyhood, and to
fish In the clear streams that tumbled
down through narrow gorges md
wound amid wide meadows or in the
lily dotted millpond his pastime. He
had the artists nature in him also and
loved dearly to sketch a pretty bit OF
natural scenery, a cascade in the brook
or a shady grotto In the woods. He
loved books, flowers. music, green
meadows, shady woods and fields white
with daisies. He had been reared
among kind hearted, honest, God fear
ing people who seldom locked their
doors at night and who believed In and
lived by the Golden Rule. The selfish
and distrustful life of great city, with
its arrogance and wealth and vanity
of display, was not akin to him, and to
put himself at the beck and call of a
mercenary and utterly INSCRIPTIONS
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was gall and bitterness. For two
weeks he worked patiently hoping each
day that the one and only friend the
city held for him would call. passing
his evenings, as he wrote Alice, 'in
reading, smoking and hating myself a
little and Frye a good deal"
He had hesitated TO write Frank In
the first place, dlsliking to ask favors,
but it could not be helped, and now he
began to feel that his friend meant to
ignore him. This humiliating conclu-
sion was growing to certainty and
Albert feeling more homesick than ever
when one afternoon while he was, as
usual, hard at work in Frye's Office
Frank came In.
| ray GANhoS OiN man.
ed that youth briskly after the first
greetings, "for not calling sooner, but
was off on my yacht about the time you
came, and then ran down to New
York to take In the cup races. You see
I'm SO busy / do not get any time to
myself. l want you to come over e
the club and lunch with me today, and
| wa can foIk mottara nVarD
"You will kindly excuse me-" replied
Albert. II have a lot of work cut oui
and am only allowed one hour fol
lunch. Can't you come around to my
room tonight and have smoke talki"
Maybe" replied Frank, "and we
can go around to the club later. You
will meet some good fellows there, and
we always make up a game Of draw
small limit, you know. Say, old man.
he added interestedly. 'how do you
like Fryer
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