Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1910-03-24
The Girl
From the
Effete East
By ARTHUR DENSMORE
CepyrisAt 1893. By Amesiean Prsss Al.
soeiation
ARLINGTON was completing
his first year Of practice when
Theodore Tuppenhesn arrived

L ~ uAO uASt your u pIaCtlCo W0e0 |
Theodore Tuppenhesn arrived
Y In Knuckleville Mr.. Tuppen.
helm was selling stock In the Charita-
bio Gold Mining company at cents per
share, price to advance to 10 cents at
the end Of thirty days Incidentally HI
found time to foster In Barrlngton's
bosom the spirit Of discomfort which
ten months fruitless waiting for clients
had engendered. II he were q clever.
clean cut young man like harrington,
did Darlington know what bed do?
Move west He wouldn't fritter away
bis time In a mossbacked New Eng
land hamlet where people looked down
on q 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 6rst 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
not be in the United States senate
within Ave years. That would be CON-
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 alkali. And now look
at it-just look Mt 1t! 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
'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 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
alive, but had rashly promised to be-
come one whenever Barrington's in
come should suffice for the support OF
two persons, and HE'D 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-
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 in Gilt Gulch, which Mr.. Tup-
penheim procured for him, resulted In
his speedily establishing thriving
practice. For the most part 1t was
work in connection with the location
Of mining claims, and, besides numer-
GUS 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.. Darlington. for whom,
It's readers would remember, the Times
I had predicted brilliant career when
I 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
r Cutler, whose good fortune 1t was tc
= be to marry a millionaire.
But Susie herself had no illusions
She even refused to permit Darlington
to come east for the marriage. Hel
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 dcke
r thrown away. If Darlington felt tina
h. he must spend the money, let him Dus
! a cabinet organ or a secondhand piano
J. for the front parlor. They would b'
|, married tn their own house at I'll
;, Guich and after that take little wed
e ding trip to Colorado Springs or mayb'
h Denver. Perhaps, being a pruden
g ilamsel. Susie desired to have a glance
;. at Gilt Gulch before she COMMITTEES
e herself irrevocably. At any rate, mat
d tiers had been thus arranged, and. tn
s date set for the wedding being bu
e two days away and Susie duo to ar
g rive that afternoon, harrington was u
Q the state of ecstasy appropriate to sucl
Is circumstances. 1t was In this momen
g of supreme happiness that misfortun
8. befell him.
The work harrington had been dom
requires to be performed with grea
accuracy; otherwise 1t Is not oni
talueless, but may be the occasion
great loss to the client Now. 1t
n possible that harrington possesse
genius. People who have that 20
E know, are apt to be careless az to d.
Of tails. Perhaps 1t was merely tina
II being deeply In love. be could not col
Sc centrate his mind upon his work. How
se ever that may be. Hartford, the alto
ID new whose Office was next to Barring