The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-26
The Girl
 From the Effete East
By ARTHUR DENSMORE
Copyright. 1909. by American Press As
 sociation


 E0 HARRINGTON was completing fo his first year of practice when E---SF4 Theodore Tuppenheim arrived GJ in Knuckleville. MT. Tuppen- helm was selling stock in the Charita- ble Gold Mining company at cents per share. price to advance to 10 cents at the end of thirty days. Incidentally he found time to foster in BarringtOn's bosom the spirit of discontent which ten months fruitless waiting for clients had engendered. If he were clever, clean cut young man like Harrington, did Harrington know what he'd do? Move west He wouldn't fritter away his time in a mossbacked New Eng land hamlet where people looked down on a fellow just because they'd known him all his life and could remember when he was a little shaver and went with patches on his trousers. No, sir. He'd just gather together his earthly possessions and take the first train for Gilt Gulch. Nev. There was the coming town; there lay the oppor- tunity for an able young man to rise. No reason in 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 alkai. And now look at it-just look at it! Six thousand inhabitants and more coming by every traini Simply couldn't get houses up fast enough for lem. Had to camp out in tents And every blamed one of lem making money Why, sir. you couldn't find a bootblack in Gilt Gulch who was worth less than fifty thou sandi
 This vision of wealth and political prominence was quite too much Tor Harrington. He adjusted his affairs in Knuckleville, which was no very difficult matter, took fearful leave of numerous relatives and of a certain pretty damsel, who was not yet rel ative, but had rashly promised to be- come one whenever BarringtOn's 1n3 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.
 Now, underneath the lurid exagger- ation with which MT. Theodore Tup- penheim had clothed his narrative of the rise of Gilt Gulch there lay re- II <,f fr.rrf h r6 hn combination of Barrington's ingenious appearance with certain letters of in- troduction to persons financially prom inent in Gilt Gnlch, which MT. Tup- penheim procured for him, resulted in his speedily establishing thriving practice. For the most part it was work in connection with the location of mining claims, and, besides numer- ous fees in cash, Harrington acquired several claims of his own, which he disposed of profitably.
 In brief. at the end of year Bar rington had waxed so prosperous as to feel himself warranted in marrying. The Knuckleville Weekly Times an- nounced editorially that it understood that young Mr. Harrington. for whom, it's readers would remember, the Times had predicted a brilliant career when he hung out his shingle in Knuckle- 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 it was to be to marry a millionaire.
 But Susie herself had no illusions. She even refused to permit Harrington to come east for the marriage. Her childhood lessons of thrift and econ omy had taken deep root in her mind. and she would not, she said, have the price of round trip railroad ticket thrown away. If Harrington felt that he must spend the money, let him buy a cabinet organ or a secondhand piano for the front parlor. They would be married In their own house at Gilt Gulch and after that take little we'd 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 Q9IG set TOT LuE WCuu1uS OCAAS Oue two days away and Susie due to ar rive that afternoon. Burlington was 1n the state of ecstasy appropriate to such circumstances. 1t 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, it is possible that Harrington possessed genius. People who have that, you know, are apt to be careless as to de tails. Perhaps it was merely that. being deeply in love. he could not con centrate his mind upon his work. How ever that may be, Hartford, the attor- ney whose office was next to Barring tons, had discovered in the course of an investigation of the records that Harrington had filed documents con. taining serious errors. He spoke to Burlington about it in perfectly friendly way. Burlington received his kindly admonitons with a contempt which he was at no pains to disguise Why should he pay heed to the re. marks of man who wore baggy trousers and long hair and played faro fn cay n,0tbipo< 0f hooop1ipC iDtOyicat. f.