Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-02-17
BY ARTHUR DENSMoRE

BILE Gold Mining company at cents pc
share, price TO advance to 10 cents
the end Of thirty days. incidentally
found time 10 foster in Darlington
bosom the spirit of discomfort whic,
ten months fruitless waiting for client
had engendered. If he were n clever
clean cut young man like Darlington
did harrington know what he'd do
! Move west. He wouldn't fritter ava,
his time i'm n mossbacked New Eng
land hamlet where people looked dowi
I'll fellow just because they'd known
him all his life and could remembe
when he was little shaver and wen
with patches on his trousers. No. sir
He'd just gather together his earthl!
possessions and take the first train
for Gilt Gulch. New. There was the
coming town. there lay the oppor-
tunity for an able young man to rise.
No reason i'm the world why he should
not be in the United States senate
within five years. That would be com
ing some? Well. everybody and every
thing came some in that country.
Why. sir. where the thriving city OF
Gilt Gulch now stood there had been
less than two years since naught but
sagebrush and alkall. And now look
at it-juSt look at it. Six thousand
inhabitants and more coming by every
train Simply couldn't get houses up
fast enough for 'em. Had TO camp out
I'm tents. And every blamed one Of
'em making money. Why, sir you
couldn't find bootblack in Gilt Gulcu
who was worth less than fifty thou
sand.
This vision of wealth and political
prominence was quite too much for
Darlington. He adjusted his affairs
in Knuckleville, which was no very
difficult matter. took fearful leave OF
numerous relatives and Of certain
pretty damsel. who was not yet rel
ative, but had rashly promised TO. be
come one whenever Barrington's in
come should suffice for the support Of
two persons, and hied himself TO Gilt
Gulch, promising TO send souvenir post
cards from every municipality he pass
ed through on the way.
alton with which Mr. Theodore Tup.
penheim had clothed his narrative OF
the rise of Gilt Gulch there lay re-
spectacle substratum Of truth, and the
combination Of Barrington's ingenious
appearance with certain letters of in
PRODUCTION to persons financially prom
inent i'm Gilt Gulch, which Mr.. Tup
pcnheim procured for him, resulted in
his speedily establishing thriving
practice. For the most part il was
work in connection with the location
Of mining claims, and, besides numcr
GUS fees in cash, Darlington acquired
several claims of his own. which h.
disposed of probably.
In brief. at the end Of a year Bar
rington had waNed 50 prosperous as TO
feel himself warranted in marrying.
The Knuckleviilc Weekly Times au-
nounced editorhlly that it understood
that young Mr. Darlington, for whom.
its readers would remember. the Times
had predicted a brilliant career when
he hung out his single in Knucllle-
vile, was now one of the leading men
in the west, and the other village
maidens were openly jealous of Susie
Cutler, whose good fortune ii was TO
be TO marry a millionaire.
But Susie herself had no Illusions.
to come east for the marriage. Her
childhood lessons OF thrift and econ
omy had taken deep root i'm her mind.
and she would not. she said. have the
price of round trip railroad ticket
thrown away. If Darlington felt that
he must spend the money, let him ba.
cabinet organ or secondhand piano
for the front parlor. They would be
married in their own house at Gilt
Gulch and after that take little wed
ding trip TO Colorado Springs or maybe
Denver. Perhaps. being a prudent
damsel, Susie desired TO have a glance
at Gilt Gulch before she committed
herself irrevocably. At any rate, mat
ters had been thus arranged. and, the
date set for the wedding being but
two days away and Susie due TO ar
rive that afternoon. harrington was i'm
the state Of ecstasy'appropriate to such
circumstances. Ii was in this moment
Of supreme happiness that misfortune
befell him.
The work harrington had been doing
requires TO be performed with great
accuracy; otherwise it is not only
valueless, but may be the occasion of
great loss TO the client Now. il is
possible that harrington possessed
genius. People who have that. you
know. are apt 20 be careless as 20 de-
tails. Perhaps it was merely that
being deeply in love, he could not cor
centrate his mind upon his work. How
ever that may be. Hartford, the attor
ney whose Office was next to Barring
tons. had discovered i'm the course Of
an investigation Of the records that
harrington had fled documents con
tanning serious errors. He spoke to
Darlington about it IN perfectly
friendly way. harrington received his
kindly admonitions with a contempt
which he was at no pains TO disguise
Why should he pay heed to the re.
marks Of n man who wore booov