The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1910-05-05
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IaGt&9 ian hnuckleville- Mr. Tuppen-
helm was selling stock in THE Charita
bic Gold Mining company ats cents per
share, price to advance To no cents at
the end of thirty days Incidentally .ae
found time 20 foster IN Barringto17s
bosom the spirit of s1isoeutent which
ten months fruitIess Walking for Cheats
had eagendered. If he were clever,
clean cut young maA like harrington,
did BaruiEgton kIiaw what he'd dor
Move west. He wouldn't fIitter away
his time in a nlossbaossed New Eng
land hamlet where people looked down
on 4 fellow just because they'd kaowR
him all his life and could remember
when he was little shaver and wenE
with patches ON his trousers. No. sir.
Held inst gather together his earthly
possessions and take the first tram
for Gilt Gulch. New. There was the
coming town; theme lay the qppor-
tuntty for an able young man to rise.
No reason in the m0rld why he shoald
not he 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 me thriving city Of
Gilt fGulch now stood there bad been
less than two years since naugk but
: sagebrush and alkiili. And now look
at at-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
in tents And ewery blamed one OF
'em making money. Why, sir. you
couldn't find bootblack in Gilt Gulch
who was worth less than fifty thou
sand!
THIS vision of wealth and political
prominence was quite too mnch for
harrington. He adjusted his affairs
in Knuckleville. which was no very
difficult matter. took fearful leave of
numerous relatives and of certain
pretty. damsel, vine was not yet a rel
alive, but had rashiy promised TO DE
come one whenever Barrington's in
come, should suffice flor the support of
two persons, and hied himself to Gilt
GuIdh, promising TO send souvenir post
cards from every municipality he pass
ed through on the way.
NJ
alton with which Mr. Theodore TlP-
penheim had clothed This narrative of
the rise, of Gilt Guldh there lay re-
spectacle substratum of truth. and the
combination of B2ITington's ingenious
appearance with certain letters of in
PRODUCTION to persons financially prom
inent In Gilt Gnlch. which Mr. TuF-
penhefm procured for him, resulted IN
his speedily establishing a thriving
practice. For the most part it was
work in connection with the location
of mining claims. and, besides numer-
GUS fees in, cash. Burlington acquired 4
several claims of his owp, which be 4
disposed of probably
In brief, at the end of a year Bar I
rington had lwaXed so prosperous as to 1
feel himself warranted in marrying. |
The Knneklaville Weekly Times an
nounced aditorially that it understood |
that young Mr.. Darlington. for whom,
dts readers would remember the Times |
had predicted q brilliant career when
ne hung out ttis single IN hnuckle-
vile, was now sone of the leading men
in the west, and the other village
maidens were openly jealous OF Susie
Cutler, whose good fortune 1t 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 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 prudent :
de- msel. Susie desired to have glance
at Gilt Gulch before she committed
herself irreyoeably. At any rate, mat
tiers had been thus arranged. and. the
date set for the wedding being but
two DAYS away and Susie due to ar
rive that afternoon. Darlington was in
the state of ecstasy appropriate TO such
1t was In this moment
of supreme happiness that misfortune
befell him.
The work Darlington had been doing Q
requires to be performed with great {
accuracy; otherwise it is not only S
ralueless. but may be the occasion Of I
yreat loss to the client Now, 1t is Il
possible that Darlington possessed /
genius. People who have that, you {
know. are apt to be careless as to de-
ails. Perhaps it was merely that, o
,eing deeply in love. he could not con- {
,entrate his mind upon his work. How j
,ver that may be, Hartford. the attor- a
lev whose office was next to Barring q
on's, had discovered in the course OF q
IN investigation of the records that q
Darlington had filed documents con- v
aiming serious errors. He spoke to u
Darlington about 1t in perfectly d
friendly way. Darlington received his q
indy admonitions with a contempt 81
which he was at no pains to disguise. Of
Why should he pay heed to the re- W
marks of a man who wore baggy y
rousers and long hair and PLAYED faro, lie