Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-07-18
CHAPTER I


You may see what kind of man | am by
my portrait; not over pleasant with any
one.
George Flexmore and l were friends.
He was my first client when | set up in
Coneyford, small town just large enough
at that time, as l believed to keep a law
yer of its own; there are q couple of us
now, and we have as much to do as we
need. Flexmore had just then come into
a fortune and he did not know what to
do with it. | prevented him from losing
1t, 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 it for him.
''If any one asks you for money, Flex-
more" said |, don't refuse him: send
him to me-" And he did so, with this re-
sult-he never lost a penny by these good
natured friends.
He had a great respect for me-more
than i deserved doubtless. He seemed to
think that whatever | did must be right,
and believe it was the sheer force of ex-
ample that kept him out of matrimony so
long BECAUSE i ulu uOl care " Ndht a
wife, he thought 1t best to keep single.
But the conditions were different l am
not an easy-going 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 I caught him singing his old
song, when a mans single be lives at his
ease" but In such a lugubrious strain
that II would have made me laugh II II
had not irritated me.
That's humbug. Flexmore," said /
land you know it. 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 cas-
If you had somebody else to think about
<nd somebody else TO think about you.
do you mean that ! ought to marry
Tony?" he said, blushing like girl.
THAT is exactly what j do mean
George There's little Miss Vaughan
who has been waiting 70 be asked thes'
three years there are dozens Of girls q
be chosen from"
do you think she would have met" b
interrupted eagerly.
well. the best way Of deciding tina
point Is TO go and ask her this afternoon
said i.
The result OF this advice was tina
Flexmore married Miss Vaughan just si'
weeks after.
She was much younger than he, as
wife should be- A happier couple neYe
saw. lie lived 70 please her, and she q
please him-that was the chief object
their lives
A year after their marriage they had
child. and nice fuss they made about y
She grew up a pleasant little thlns' 81
and rmid, with q clinging affection 10
loyable persons and things J never sa'
anything like the passionate attaehnen
thar existed between her ed her sweet
tempered mother. Poor MS. Flekiiof
had never been robust person AUD
well, 10 cut short o story that u 100 pll.
ful 10 dwell upon, she died when hu'
IAure was eleven years old
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