Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-07-11
CHAPTER l.

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George Ele1more and l were friends.
he was my hrst client whom l set UP In
Coneyford, = small town Just large enough
at that time, a. believed, to keep a law
yer Of Its own there are a couple 81 us
now, and we have as much to do as we
need. Elexnore had just then come into
. fortune and he DID not know what to
DO with 1t. I prevented him from losing
Il, AZ 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 SIXTY
speculator 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, FleI-
more" said I, don't refuse him. send
him to me-" And he did no, with this re-
sult-he never lost penny by these good
natured friends.
He had a great respect for me-more
than l deserved doubtless. He seemed to
think that whatever I did must be right,
and believe 1t was the sheer force OF ex-
ample that kept him cut of matrimony 50
long; because l did not care to take 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 we'll 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 a bachelors
existence.
One day I caught him singing his old
song, when . mans single he lives at his
ease" but In such lugubrious strain
that II would have made me laugh IL II
had not irritated me.
That's humbug. FleImore," said /,
~and you know It. 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
X 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 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.
swell. the best way of deciding that
point Is to go and ask her this afternoon.
said 1.
The result of this advice was that
Flexmore married Miss Vaughan just sir
weeks after.
She was much younger than he, az a
wife should be. A happier couple never
saw. He lived to please her, and she te
please him-that was the chief object Of
their lives.
A 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 a clinging affectita for
loyahle persons and things. l never saw
anything like the passionate attachmen,
that existed between her and her sweet.
tempered mother. Poor Mrs. FleImors
had never been robust person. and
well, to cut short story that Is too pain
full to dwell upon, she died when little
Laurs was eleven years old.
Flermerc was then shty-two, but he
was rot toe old to suffer. The loss un.
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 l. 1T would
have been better to let you live on ar
old bachelor"
mo, no." he replied after such hap
piness an eternity OF suffering would hnd
me still a gaiHer."
-Ysu have year chlld--your littl,
Lxurs." said l.; ssd then, to turn hi,
thoughts from the past, talked about
the future, and what be should do fol
tAe chill's welfare. Indeed the child,
grief gave me ainisst as much concern a,
the fatksr's- 1t was not passionate opt
burst, that spends itself like summe,
shower and gives place to; peace ant
smiles, but a consumed fruitless yearn
ing fer that loved one to come back who
was gone forever.
you must have a. woman here to com
fort her." | said to Fiermore-
He agreed to this, and sent for his de
ceased brothers widow, who had married
again and been a second time left {
widow, as being his nearest female rela
tiye, and she came readily enough
woman Of City, hard 81 nails, and String,
~ an old crow. She hooked upon littl,
Laufe'r distress as unnatural In a child
and her morbid condition as the result .
defective education; and she set abou
correcting ali THIS by setting the lhtl
thing to read sorfs instructive and mora
bssks which no eenceivable creature coul,
hnd interest or pleasure in.
After she had been there three day
DR.. Awdrey had to be sent for. LAur
was feSerfsh and couldn't held hersel
uY properly" DIR. Awdrey ordered he
- b put to bed at snce. gave direction
respecting treatment and sent physic {
be administered every tive hours.
Mrs. Ycames had studied medicine tror
q sAiling handbook that she carried wit
her as If IL were an amulet she dilute
the physic and administered doses whe
she thought fit. Little Laure was yer