The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-07-24

ested himself in local matters, siding al
ways with the majority; he became
member of the County Club, bought
horse and got admitted to the hunt; and
with his good looks, manly bearing, ad
mirable Craftsmanship and skillful free
handedness, made himself generally pop
ular. One way and another l reckoned
he was living up to nearer eight hundred
than two hundred year.
"A pretty rod you're laying in pickle
or yourself, my boy" said l to myself,
md chuckled to think how he would have
% draw in his horns when he found that
he was down in his uncle's will for a
tr.fling legacy instead of the fifty thou
sand pounds he was calculating upon.
All this time he was paying assiduous
attentions to Miss Dalrympe He saw,
though he said nothing about it to me,
,hat his uncle was thinking of Laure's
future, and wished to provide for her per-
petual association with Gertrude, and he
knew the hold he had on old Flexmore
through this pretended attachment to her,
cunning rascal!
let him go on, conscious that he
would not go too far. 1t was not likely
that, feeling now assured of that large
Inheritance, he would pledge himself to
marry pennless girl. With his uncle's
fortune and the effect he was now pro-
1ucing, he would be able to take the pick
OF the county when he wished to marry
and there were, within twenty miles,
many girls more snowy than quiet, I'M
pretentious, little Miss Dalrymple, girls
with money, and much more to the taste
of such man as he. But though he
would not be rash enough to actually en-
gage himself, it was pretty certain that
he would insidiously lead my unsuspecting
little friend to believe that he intended
to marry her, and feared that he might
obtain such hold upon her affection that
when he threw up the game, as he newt
ably would when he discovered that there
was nothing to win by it, the effect upon
her would be serious. She was not q
firt; she had never cut up her heart into
morsels and scattered it about amongst
crowd Of admirers; her heart was whole
to be given to one man, and one only. She
was serious and earnest in all things, and
it seemed to be possible that she might
never care to give to a second man the
affection that had been despised by the
first. For this reason l resolved If l got
the opportunity, to shake her faith in Mr..
Lynn Yeames.
One day l met her alone in the road
that cuts through the Hazedown woods.
Here is beautiful morning, Miss Dali
rymple," said I, holding her hand.
"Oh, it is beautiful !" she exclaimed,
looking around her. "See how the rime
still stands on the brake, and look how
the drops glisten on the gossamer. And
what lovely tints there are on the beeches,
and the brambles down there"
"Yet you would prefer at this moment
to be in your London hospital You feel
that you are wasting your time here
that's the fact, isn't it?"
II should be sorry to think that" she
replied, with quiet gravity.
but you are. Here you are saving the
life of one child; there you might be say
Ing Dozen"
.'They will be saved without me-"
"And little Laure would be lost-that
is true"
Let us talk about the country" she
said, as we walked on.
"There is a man worth talking about"
said 1, pointing down to the crossroads,
where I spied DIR. Audrey jogging along
in his gig on his beggarly round.
ooh, don't think there is a better
man than he in all the world !" she cried
with enthusiasm.
IF he were only little more practi-
CAL" said 1.
She nodded sadly, and presently said,
II sometimes think he would have died
a martyr had he lived long while ago."
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him now. There he goes, to look after a
lot of thankless vagabonds, who'll never
pay him for saving their lives
She looked thoughtfully before her for
minute, then she said:
do you think he could ever be happy
in the ordinary sense of the word?"
Eyes, if he married"
Il do not think he will ever marry"
she said, shaking her head gravely, after
a pause.
why not?" l asked; "he is man
and fine man, too. The only difficulty
| is in getting any one to have him. A
man without superficial attractions and
without money, what chance has he?"
do you think all girls are either silly
or mercenary?" she asked.
There's third section but they don't
care for good men,"
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blushing; and looking sidelong in the ex-
pectation of seeing this home-thrust bring
the color up to her temples, l was sur
prised to see that it produced rather a
contrary effect.
II don't mean an absolutely bad man,
but one who thinks he is reformed" said
l, land attributes, or leads it to be i'm
agined that he owes his reformation to
the girls influence"
l was morally certain that Lynn
Yeames had not ascribed his change to
the effects of a country life in his con.
versation' with Gertrude, however he had
chosen to represent it to me.
1T hatters the girls vanity to think
she has redeemed the man." l added.
rs it vanity and nothing else thai
makes one delight in doing good?"
II can't say, my dear-not having hat
much experience in that way myself; bu
this l know, that every good girl mus
be doing good, ought to be doing good
or think she is doing good. l speak O
good girls. and no good girl would b.
content to be an idle plaything for &,
mans leisure moments. And the wish Il
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