Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1917-10-04

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to it as witness he did me mean
trick"
I'm With you there" said Higgins
laughing When O'uara made his
will so that my client couldn't get he,
rights at once he did IA mean trick, and
/ | daresay Mrs DobIin will think SO
when she gets my bill But Just the
same, Gubb. you're in the detective
business more or less, and 1t strikes me
you ought TO take Job when its of
fercd TO you. You signed the viii as
! witness. ami you can't give us any
| help, and this man Billion. commonly
known as Mustard ON account of his
yellow complexion and yellow hair.
was the other witness, wasn't he
! Now, If you can't give us the informa
/ ton we want and Mustard can IL looks
TO me as If it was your duty as n fel
! low witness to hunt him up. We're
willing to pay you If you find him"
Are you prepared to contract to SAY
! you'll pay me just for hunting for
him?" asked Mr.. Gubb.
r "Well give you $500 If you can pro
duce Mustard here In Riverbank." said
Higgins
THE job I've took on to hunt up an
other missing party will occupy me
most all day for quite awhile, | guess.
said Gubb. but maybe | might put IN
what extra time Il can spare looking
for your party :"
"All right then" said Higgins
1.-TWO hundred if you find him. And
now will you just come across the hall
for one mlnute?"
Gubb left his microscope reluctantly
He was sick and tired of the O'Hara
Will, but he followed Mr.. Higgins.
At the other end of the corridor was
the office occupied for many years by
Haddon O'EIara, who specialized i'll
commercial law, collections and jokes
On the streets and in his home and
at his Office. except when ut work on
some especially difficult case. his face
always wore Il quizZical smile. O'Iiara
seemed to enjoy himself every moment
Walking along the street, he would
suddenly stop some citizen. enunciate
and proceed on his way, leaving the
citizen to puzzle over the affair, lose
interest in 1t and forget 1t. A week. a
month or a year later O'Hara would
stop the same citizen and utter ten
more words, the key to the cryptic
joke. Then, chuckling, he would hurry
away, leaving enlightenment to come
| - tI.N nif 1iI1fy RI hn
brightness or stupidity of the citizen.
For many years O'Hara lived alone
with his mother Then his mothers
health failed little, and she brought
her grandchild. OIIaras niece and an
orphan. from an orphan home, and
Dolly O'IIara helped with the house
work she was twenty years younger
than O'IIara. He was kind to her, but
never paid hsr amy especial attention
Mrs O'IIara died and Dolly became
the hOusckeeper. She was eighteen
and there might have been some gossip
about the iill's living alone In the
house With Oiiara but O'lIara fore
stalled it by hiring old Mrs MulIarky
Dolly O'Iara mourned her grand
| y,
off her mourning 0'lIara bought her a
pup and had IA DOLLHOUSE built and put
in the yard He christened the pup
himself naming it Wafiles because, he
said, the pup was just the color Of the
waflcs Dolly made The girrloyed the
dog from the first minute. The truth
was that Dolly loved O'Ilara as deeply
fa tI,ap
and she loved the dog for OHara' $
sake just as much as for the dog
/ sake Then just as the dog had out
; upnrhood O'IIara died.
His will was found In the safe In his
office Old Judge Mackinnon. who
shared the office with O fIara. found
the will the day after O'liara died. II
was in white legal envelope indorsed
, My VIII. Haddon O'IIara. The
Judge opened the enyelope-it was no,
, | sealedAand took out the will. The
, will was not filled in on printed form
, 1t was a Photograph will. written Ii
O'Haras own hand 1t began in the
usual formal manner, and there were
two requests. The first read: ITO IN,
niece. Dorothy O'IIara. since she Is 81
extremely fond of her dog Watties a.
q 10 seem to require no other companion
ship. give and bequeath the doghous'
now on my property at 342 Locus
street, Riverbank, Ia, and advise he
to remove the said doghouse and t
a make her home in 1t at any suitable
n place, and trust that before she fall
asleep each night she will lie awak
n and think of the undersigned testator.
: The second read: Secondly. to n.
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