Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-03-18
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By RTHUR DENS MORE.

year OF practice when Theodore Tup-
penheim arrived in Knuckleville. Mr..
Tuppenheim was selling stock in the
Charitable Gold Mining company at
cents per share, price to advance to
10 cents at the end Of thirty days. In
cidentally he found time to foster in
Barrington's boson~the spirit of dis
content which ten months fruitless
waiting for clients had engendered. If
he were a clever, clean cut young man
like Darlington, did harrington know
what he'd do? Move west. He
wouldn't fritter away his time in a
mossbacked New England hamlet
where people looked down on fell
low Just because they'd known him all
was a little shaver and went with
patches on his trousers. No, sir. He'd
just gather together his earthly pos
sessions and take the first train for
Gilt Gulch, New. There was the COM
ing town. there lay the opportunity
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 coming
some? Well, everybody and every
sir. where the thriving city of Gilt
Gulch now stood there had been less
than two years since naught but sage
brush and alkali. And now look at
it-just look at it! Six thousand in
habitants 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 'em making money. Why, sir, you
couldn't find a bootblack in Gilt Gulch
who was worth less than fifty thous-
and!
This vision of wealth and political
prominence was quite too much 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, 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
postcards from every municipality he
passed through on the way.
Now, underneath the lurid eXagger-
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 inge-
nious appearance with certain letters
of introduction to persons financially
prominent in Gilt Gulch, which Mr..
Tuppenheim procured for him, re-
suited in his speedily establishing a
thriving practice. For the most part
it was work in connection with the
location of mining claims, and be-
sides numerous fees in cash, Barring
ton acquired several claims of his
own, which he disposed of profitably.
In brief, at the end of a 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.. Darlington, for whom
its readers would remember, the
Times had predicted brilliant career
when he hung out his shingle in
Knuckleville. 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 mil
lionaire.
But Susie herself had no illusions.
She even refused to permit Barring
ton 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 a round trip railroad ticket
thrown away. If Darlington 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 may
be 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 arrive that
afternoon, Darlington was in the state
. tn rirp11r1- =
stances. 1t was in this moment of
supreme happiness that misfortune
befell him.
The work Darlington had been do
ing requires to be performed with
great accuracy; otherwise it is not
only valueless, but may be the occa-
sion Of great loss to the client. Now,
il is possible that Darlington possessed
genius People who have that you
know, are apt to be careless as to de-
tails. Perhaps il was merely that, be-
ing deeply in love, he could not con-
centrate his mind upon his work.
However that may be, Hartford, the
attorney whose office was next TO Bar
rington's. had discovered in the course
of an investigation of the records that
Darlington had filed documents con-
tanning serious errors. He spoke to
Darlington about it in perfectly
friendly ~. harrington received his
kindly admOntions with contempt
which he was at no pains to disguise
Why should he pay heed to the re-
marks of a man who wore baggy
trousers and played faro, to say moth
ing of becoming intoxicated now and
then? He knew we'll enough what in
spred these critical observations
Hartford was jealous of the prosperity
which harrington had so rapidly
achieved. Let him stop caviling. said
the virtuous Darlington to himself
and seek success by leading a sober
life. as he did.
Feeling that ne had been insulted
harrington thereafter confined his
communications with Hartford to q