The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-27
The Girl
From the
Effete East
By ARTHUR DENsMoRE
Copyright 1908. by American Pres. A.-
sociation
By ARTHUR DENsMoRE
ARLINGTON was completing
his first year of practice when
Theodore Tuppenheim arrived

CI3 in Knuckleville. Mr.. Tuppen-
helm was selling stock in the Charita-
bic 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 discomfort 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 mossbacked New Eng |
land hamlet where people looked down
4 on a fellow just because they'd known
| him all his life and could remember
/ when he was 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. New. 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
4 not be in the United States senate
within FIVE years. That would be COM
ing some? Well, everybody and every
y
why. sir. where the thriving city OF
Gilt Gulch now stood there had been
less than two years since naught but
sagebrush and alkali. And now look
at it-iust look ut 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 every blamed one OF
ZEN making money. Why, sir. you
couldn't find a bootblack in Gilt Gulch
. who was worth less than fifty thou
sand.
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 certain
pretty damsel. who was not yet a rel
alive, but had rashly promised to be-
come one whenever Barrington's IN
come should suffice for the support OF
l. two persons. and HE'D himself to Gilt
z Gulch, promising to send souvenir post
r cards from every municipality he pass
# ed through on the way.
oil Now, underneath the lurid e1agger
d alton with which Mr.. Theodore Tup
penheim had clothed his narrative OF
Is the rise of Gilt Gulch there lay re
o spectacle substratum of truth, and thu
u combination of Barringtons ingenious
e. appearance with certain letters OF in
" PRODUCTION to persons financially prom
Is inent in Gilt Gulch, which Mr.. Tup
penheim procured for him, resulted IL
o. his speedily establishing THRIVING
ii practice For the most part 1t wa
!. work in connection with the Location
4 of mining claims, and, besides numer
ar Gus fees in cash. Darlington acquired
"A several claims of his own, which h
disposed of probably.
In brief, at the end of year Bar
rington had waxed so prosperous as t
feel himself warranted in marrying
- The Knuckleville Weekly Times al
nounced editorially that 1t understood
" that young Mr. Darlington, for whom
its readers would remember, the lime
% had predicted brilliant career whe
he hung out his shingle in knucklt
VI vile. was now one of the leading me
es in the west, and the other v1llag
VI maidens were openly jealous OF susi
nc Cutler. whose good fortune 1t was
be to marry millionaire.
re But Susie herself had no illusion
no S,e ovan refused to permit Barringto
71r 70 come east for the marriage. He
childhood lessons of thrift and ecoi
fe, omy had taken deep root in her mln'
IS; and she would not she said. nave I'll
no price of a round trip railroad tick
a thrown away. If Darlington felt th'
re-, he must spend the money. let him bu
cabinet organ or secondhand pial
ret for the front parlor. They would
married in their own house at I'll
Gulch and after that take a little we
ding trip to Colorado Springs or may
Denver Perhaps. being a pruoel
as damsel, Susie desired to have CLAN
tn Mt Gilt Gulch before she commltt'
"a herself irrevocably. At any rate, ms
lly tiers had been thus arranged. and, q
Id date set for the wedding being b
two DAYS away and Susie due to
ar rive that afternoon. harrington was
to the state of ecstasy appropriate to SUI
~ circumstances. IL Nho IL IA'iS 1850
,r. of supreme happiness that misfortu
tie befell him.
he The work harrington had been dol
of REQUIRES to be performed with gre
ef- accuracy; otherwise it is not OF
'ch vaIueless, but may be the occasion
great loss to the client Now, IT
possible that harrington possess
genius. People who have that ,
ing know. are apt to be careless as 10
caI tails Perhaps it was merely th
ov. being deeply in love. he could not c.
centrate his mind upon his work DO
ever that may be, Hartford. the att
new whose Office was next to Barn.
TOMS. had discovered in the course
~ an investigation Of the records u
~ Harrington had filed documents
nan. tanning serious errors. He spoke
toref harrington about it In a perIee
olor friendly way harrington received
avs. kindly admonitions with a confer