Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1905-12-01

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and found Augusta and Eustace. tn
one very red snd the other very pale
standing suspic!ously close to eaci
other. But he vas very weli-traipet
butler and a man OF experience, wh'
had seen much and guessed more: ant
he looked as innocent as n babe un
born
lust then, too, Lady H~foinhrrs'
came In again and looked at the pair
OF them with an amusing twinkle In
her eye. Lady H~olnhurst, Hike hei
butler, was also a person Of expert
euca.
Wont you come into the drawing
room:" she said. n they did, look
ing rather ~sheepish.
And there EustaCe made n clean
breast of ii, announcing that they
were engaged to be married. And al
though this was somewhat OF an as
sumption. seeing that no actual words
OF troth had passed between them.
Augusta stood there. never offering Il
word of contradiction.
We'll, Mr.. Meeson.' said Lady
f1ptIIllUESl, 1 llIih HIT Npp NV tIS
luckiest man Of my acquaintance. for
Augusta Is not only one of the sweet
est and loveliest girls that I have ever
met. she Is also the brayest and clev-
crest. You will have to look out, Mr..
Meescn, or :;ou viii be known as the
husband Of the great Augusta Nee
son"
.I will folo tho rfsC' ho QnSyrara6
humbly. Il know thai Augusta has
more brains IL her little finger than 1
have in my whole body. l don't know
how she can look at a fellow like me-
Dear me, how humble We are!' said
Lady Holmhurst. well, that is the
way of men before marriage. And,
now. as Augusta carries both your for
tunes on her back as well as in her
face and brain. l venture to suggest
that you had better 60 and see a
lawyer about the matter"
Eustace, after leaving the house,
went toward the Temple. AS it hap
pened. in the same lodging house
where he had beer living for the last
few months, two brothers Of the name
Of Short had rooms, and with these
young gentlemen he had become very
friendly. The two Shorts were twins,
and so like one another that it was
more than a month before Eustace
could be sure which Of them he was
speaking to. When they were both
at college their father died, leaving his
property equally between them; and
as this property on realization was not
found to amount to more than four
hundred a year., the twins very rightly
concluded that they had better do
something to supplement their moder-
ate income. Accordingly by a stroke
Of genius they determined that one
Of them should become a solicitor and
the other a barrister, and then tossed
up as to which should take to which
trade. John would give James briefs,
and James reflected glory would shine
back on John. In short, they were
anxious to establish a legal long firm
OF the most approved pattern.
Accordingly they passed their re-
spechve examinations, and John took
rooms with another budding solicitor
in the city. while James hired cham
bers in Pump court. But there the
matter stopped, for as John did not
get any work, of course he could not
give any to James. And so it came
to pass that for the past three years
neither of the twins had found the law
as profitable as they anticipated.
Now, Eustace had often when in the
I~v%-s ci%ts&r ~ %I1 ~1in-
house in the Strand heard the barrister
James hold forth %learnedly on the mat
ter of wills, and therefore he naturally
enough turned toward him in his re-
cent dilemma. Knowing the address
Of his chambers In Pump court, he
hurried thither.
Mr.. James Short was a short, stout
nose and a prematurely bald head. In
deed, this badness OF the head was
the only distinguishing mark between
James and John. At the moment of
Eustace's entry Mr.. Short had been
engaged in studying that intensely
legal print. the Sporting Times, which,
however, from some unexplained bash
fulness, be had hastily thrown under
the table, filling its space with a law
book snatchsd at hazard from the
shelf.
"Ah," said Mr.. James Short, when
he had shaken hands with him, you
see I thought that 1t might have been
q client-a client Is always possible,
however improbable, and one has to be
ready to meet the possibility"
quite 80, old fellow" said Eustace,
but do you know. as It happens, I am
a client-and a big one, too; It is q
matter Of two millions OF money-my
uncSe's fortune. There was another
viii, and / want to take your advice
MI. Short fairly bounded out OF hi.
chair in exultation. and then. struck
by another thought, sunk back into il
again.
NY dear Messon,' he said, II an
sorry I cannot hear you
"Ehy said Eustace; what do vol
meang"
II mean that you are not accom-
panied by a solicitor: and it is not tht
etiquette Of the profession to which
belong to see a client unaccompaniet
BY a solicitor"
"Oh, hang the etiquette OF the pro
fessfong"
MY dear Meeson, II you came to MI
as q friend I should be happy to CIV
you n iegalSinformation in my pow
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