The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-07-10
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CHAPTER l.

CHAPTER l.
Ny name u Keene-Anthony Keene. I
am lawyer; sixty-four years IL my age.
You may see what kind Of man am by
my portrait: not over pleasant with any
one
George Tlexmore and were friends.
He WAS my first client when set up In
Coneyford, q small town just large enough
at that time, - believed, to keep law
yer Of its swn: there are q couple Of az
now, and We have a. much to do as we
need. Elexmore had just then come into
. fortune and he did not know what to
do with Il. prevented him from losing
1t, a. he certainly would have done with
out proper direction, for be was an easy
going man, Of q credulous disposition,
such as your needy adventurer and shfty
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.
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 penny by these good
natured friends.
He had a great respect for me-more
than deserved doubtless. He seemed to
think that whatever did must be right,
and believe 1t was the sheer force Of ex-
ample that kept him cut of matrimony SO
long; because / did not care to take
wife, he thought it best to keep single.
But the conditions were different. am
not an easy-going man, and marriage
would have been purgatory for me or my
wife, and the result must have been equal
" 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
ease" but In such lugubrious strain
that 1t would have made me laugh II 1t
had not irritated me.
''That's humbug, Fezmore," said I,
''and you know 1t. A mans happiness
consists in making other people happy
unless he's a lawyer. You're not 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 l ought to marry,
TonyY' he said, blushing like girl.
'4That Is exactly what l 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 me?" he
Interrupted eagerly.
'Well. the best way Of deciding that
point Is to go and ask her this afternoon"
said l.
The result Of this advice was that
Flexmore married Miss Vaughan just six
weeks after.
She was much younger than he, as a
wife should be. A happier couple never
saw. He lived to please her, and she to
please him-that was the chief object Of
their lives.
A year after their marriage they had a
child, and nice fuss they made about it.
She grew up a pleasant little thing. shy
and timid, with a clinging Affected for
lovable persons and things I never saw
anything like the passionate attachment
that existed between her and her sweet
tempered mother. Poor Mrs. F1e1more
had never been a robust person, and
we'll, to cut short story that Is too pain
full to dwell upon, she died when little
Laurie was eleven years old.
Flexmore was then sixty-two, but he
was not toe old to suffer. The loss UNI
manned him completely. He took on like
q woman: and he would have been less a
man II he had not, perhaps.
MY poor old friend" said I, ut would
have been better to let you live on an
old bachelor"
mo, no." he replied. AFTER such hap
pipess an eternity Of suffering would find
me still gainer."
"Yos have yoar child-your little
Laura" said l.: and then, to turn hia
thoughts fSom the past, l TALKED about
the future, and what he should do for
the cAild's welfare. Indeed the child's
grief save nae almost as much concern al
the fathers. It was act q passionate ont
burst, that spends itself like summer
shower and gives place to peace and
smiles. but continued fruitless yearn.
ing for that loved one TO come back wha
was gone forever.
"Yoa must have woman here to Gem.
fort her." said to Flexmore.
He agreed to this, and sent for his de.
ceased brothers widow, who had married
again and heen a second time left q
widow, as being his nearest female rela.
tive, and she came readily enough-s
woman Of 6fty, hard - nails, aud stxinxy
Is an old crow. She looked upon little
LAufe's distress Is unnatural In a child
and her morbid condition as the result ID
defective edueation; and she set abou,
correcting All this by setting the littls
thing t. read ssu4s iastruetive and mora
books which no eeueeivable creature coalt
find interest or pleasure In.
After she had been there three day,
Or. Awdrey had to be sent for. Laur,
was feyerish and couldn't ''hold hersel,
up properly" DR.. Awdrey ordered he,
to b. put, to bed at once. gave direction.
respecting treatneAt. aad sent physic t.
besadmioisteree every two hours.
ME-. Yearnes had studied medicine from
. shilling handbook that she carried will
her as II it were an amulet; she diluted
tho .pAysic and administered doses wheI
she Thought 1T. Little Laure was YER,
much worse when the doctor called tn,
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