The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-04-16
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one.
George Fle1more and were friends
He was my first client when / set up II
Coneyford, a small town just large enough
at that time, as | believed, to keep a law
yer of its own; there are couple OK ui
now, and we have as much to do as vi
need. Blexmore had just then come into
fortune and he did not know what tc
do with it, | prevented him from losing
II, AS he certainly would have done with
out proper direction, for he was an easy
going man, of a credulous disposition
such as your needy adventurer and shifty
Spectator love to take in hand. For ev-
cry man that has money there are ninety
nine who are anxious to spend 1t for him.
III any one asks you for money, Flex-
more" said l. don't refuse him send
him to me-" And he did 80, with this re-
sult--he never lost a penny by these good
natured friends.
| He had great respect for me-more
than l deserved doubtless. He seemed to
think that whatever | did must be right,
and believe II was the sheer force of ex-
ample that kept him out of matrimony so
long because | did not care to take a
wife, he thought II best to keep single
But the conditions were different. | am
not an easy-gong man, and marriage
would have been purgatory for me or my
wife, and the result must have been equal
ly bad for both Of us in either case. But
Flexmore had nothing to do from morning
to night that might not very well be set
aside to attend to the wants of some
body else. He saw that he ought to have
some other object In life than to eat and
sleep and kill time-that his life was in
complete In fact. But he still made pre-
tense OF being content with bachelors
existence.
One day l caught him singing his old
song, When a mans single he lives at his
ease" but In such lugubrious strain
that It would have made me laugh If 1t
had not irritated me.
'"fhats humbug, Flexmore," said |,
"and yor know il. A mans happiness
consists In making other people happy
unless he's a lawyer. You're not a law
yer, and you ought to be making some
body happy. You'd be more at your ease
II you had somebody else to think about,
and somebody else to think about you"
'Do you mean that | ought to marry,
Il ony ne Sdlu, plushiuB IKE girl
That Is exactly what | do mean,
George. There's little Miss Vaughan,
who has been waiting to be asked these
three years; there are dozens of girls to
be chosen from"
DO you think she would have mei' he
interrupted eagerly.
well, the best way of deciding that
point Is to go and ask her this afternoon
said l.
Inc result OF ms ADVICE was that
blexmore married MISS vaughan just SIX
weeks AFTER
She was much younger than he, as
wife should be. A happier couple never
saw. lie lived to please her, and she to
please him-that was the chief object of
their lives.
year after their marriage they had a
child, and a nice fuss they made about It.
She grew up pleasant little thing, shy
and timid, with clinging affection for
ovable persons and things l never saw
anything ike the passionate attachment
hat existed between her and her sweet
empered mother Poor Mrs. Flexmore
lad never been robust person, and
WE'LL to cut short story that is too pain
ul TO dwell upon, she died when little
saure was eleven years old.
Flexmore was then sixty-two, but he
vas not too old to suffer The loss UNI
manned him completely. He took on like
woman and he would have been less
nan II he had not, perhaps.
My poor old friend, said |, lit would {
ave been better to let you live on an
Id bachelor
mo, no." he replied. After such han D
mess an eternity Of suffering would find .
IL stlll a gainer." {
you have your child-your LITTLE o
azure" said /; and then, TO tnrn his U
,oufhts from the past. | talked about Z
ia future. and what he should do for t
10 chlld's welfare. Indeed the cbi,d,s Il
ref gave me almost A. much concern n. r.
70 fathers. II was NOT q nass;onste ONT
,rst that ,pends itself lIks s,r,r,ar b
,ower and gives Mace 10 naace ora o
niles but a continued frnitIss. yoarn Il
10 for that loved one 70 come haoL viz Il
a. gone forever
"You must have woman hare 70 oo,,, u
rt her" I said 10 Flarmore b
He agreed 10 this. and sent for b;s a, W
n sea brotber,. widow wbo Ma 49,, in
ain and been second tims Ist, 'e CT