Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-11-29
CHAPTER I.

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20 'o-~' Gao what kind of man [ am by
y " porrrait; not over pleasant with any
Pc FIeymore and 1 were friends.
0'V.o NV first client when l set up In
-tord a small town just large enough
0l l',- time. as I believed, to keep a law
i+s own: there are a couple OF US
Ct - ~ ue have as much to do as we
wv w. TIexmore had just then come into
~ g..+,na and he did not know what TO
o 9TH Il I prevented him from losing
bo certainly would have done With
s,,or direction, for he was an easy
1 ~ man of a credulous disposition,
''g' 80 rour needy adventurer and shitty
".T,-or love to take in hand. For ev-
.' .,on that has money there are ninety
n,bo are anxious to spend it for him.
III ..It anv one asks you for money, f'lex-
said / don't refuse him; send
.o,' 10 me-" And he did so, with this re-
IN u. " 10 never lost a penny by these good
faured friends.
II, bod great respect for me-more
-. deserved doubtless He seemed to
Ib;nE that whatever l did must be right
III bpIipve it was the sheer force OF ex-
.arIo that kept him out of matrimony so
L. baoausp | did not care to take
f, ba thought it best to keep single.
w.. +bo conditions were different. l am
~ on pasv-g0ing man, and marriage
,,d have been purgatory for me or my
rife and the result must have been equal
+ had for both of us in either case But
t,.vD,oro had nothing to do from morning
nrb+ that might not very we'll be set
o,ida IN attend to the wants of some
todv else He saw that he ought to have
S .ooA other object in life than to eat and
.oor and kill time-that his life was in
Conpete in fact. But he still made pre-
tsnse of being content with a bachelors
GiStenCe.
One dav caught him singing his old
.oDc when a mans single he lives at his
s,se" but in such lugubrious strain
that it would have made me laugh If it
had not irritated me.
That's humbug, Flexmore," said l,
"aDd you know it. A mans happiness
consists in making other people happy
unless he's lawyer. You're not a law
yer. and YOU ought to be making some
body happy You'd be more at your ease
L you had somebody else to think about,
and somebody else to think about you"
do you mean that l ought to marry,
Tony" he said, blushing like a girl.
That is exactly what I do mean,
George. There's little Miss Vaughan,
who has been waiting to be asked these
three years; there are dozens of girls to
8 be chosen from"
DO you think she would have me?" he
6 Interrupted eagerly.
We'll, the best way of deciding that
point is to go and ask her this afternoon"
said l.
The result of this advice was that
q Flezmore married Miss Vaughan just six
weeks after.
She was much younger than he, as
wife should be- A happier couple l never
saw He lived to please her, and she to
please him-that was the chief object of
their lives
year after their marriage they had
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4 She grew up pleasant little thing, shy
and timid, with a clinging affection foi
Oyable persons and things. l never saw
Z anything like the passionate attachment
s that existed between her and her sweet
& tempered mother. Poor Mrs. Flexmore
had never been a robust person, and
. we'll to cut short a story that is too pain
tuI to dwell upon, she died when little
LAure was eleven years old.
tIennOre was then sixty-two, but he
was not too old to suffer. The loss I'M
manned him completely. He took on like
woman; and he would have been less
man II he had not, perhaps.
Wy poor old friend" said 1, lit would
naye been better to let you live on an
Old bachelor"
No, no. he replied. After such hap
plneSs m eternity of suffering would find
he still gamer"
You have your child-your little
LaoTe' said l; and then, to turn his
thoughts from the past, l talked about
Tue future, and what he should do for
Ie chlIdS welfare. Indeed the childs
S''e. gave me almost as much concern as
IlS 1atners. 1t was not passionate out
Vu'S" that spends itself like a summer
'aCEeT and gives place to peace and
s~"eS' but a continued fruitless yearn-
-Is 'or that loved one to come back who
vas gone forever.
LOU must have woman here to COM
'0,, her" I said to Flexmore.
ne agreed to this. and sent for his de-
.~seu OTother's widow, who had married
r -, and been second time left
,1'"' dS oelng his nearest female rela-
1 ,% ana she came readily enough-a
.'~1an OF fifty, hard as nails, and stringv
T,n I'D CD crow. She looked upon little
.,5, distress as unnatural in a child.
5s..- 4eE morbid condition as the result of
.,..e education; and she set about
5;,.S.'ns all this by setting the little
h,,L 10 read some instructive and moral
S75 ""I'n no conceivable creature could
a.. .1'eFeSt or pleasure in.
\, ,s' she had been there three DAYS
", ae"oFey had to be sent for. Laure
y, .s'eF.Sh and couldn't hold herself
to 10 ,U we DR.. Audrey ordered her
>as9,,t pu' TO bed at once. gave directions
b. . o3ls treatment, and sent physic to
lT w. Il every two hours.
G SHIN: Games had studied medicine from
h., as handbook that she carried with
Il. AZ Il 1t were an amulet; she diluted
She t S5S$ and administered doses when