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Here the Reverend Doctor Linford loved to walk in God's sunlight out of sheer simple joy in living happily undismayed by any possible consciousness that his progress turned all faces to regard him, as inevitably as one would turn the spokes of an endless succession of turnstyles.
The third document was the power of attorney which Ann Mallathorpe had given to Linford Pratt: the fourth, the letter which she had written to him on the evening before the fatal accident to Harper. And the fifth was John Mallathorpe's will. At last she held in her hand the half-sheet of foolscap paper of which Mrs.
"But he will he will!" she cried exultingly, and her eyes were wet with an unexplained gladness. The Ministers' Meeting of the following Tuesday was pleasantly enlivened with gossip retained, of course, within seemly bounds. There was absent the Reverend Dr. Linford, sometime rector of St.
Linford Pratt, senior clerk to Eldrick & Pascoe, solicitors, of Barford, a young man who earnestly desired to get on in life, by hook or by crook, with no objection whatever to crookedness, so long as it could be performed in safety and secrecy, had once during one of his periodical visits to the town Reference Library, lighted on a maxim of that other unscrupulous person, Prince Talleyrand, which had pleased him greatly.
"Speak for yourself, Whittaker," snapped the aggressive little Baptist, "but doubtless Mr. Linford has something to say." Bernal remained unperturbed by this. Very earnestly he continued: "Christianity is defective, judged even by poor human standards; untrue by the plain facts of human consciousness." "Ah! Now we shall learn!" Father Riley turned his most gracious smile upon the speaker.
So, in all that great town of Barford, he, Linford Pratt, he, alone out of a quarter of a million people, knew what? The magnitude of what he knew not only amazed but exhilarated him. There were such possibilities for himself in that knowledge. He wanted to be alone, to think out those possibilities; to reckon up what they came to.
According to the lookout thus kept for this person, it was reported that he had been seen to pass on foot through towns lying south of Denver, meanly dressed and accompanied by a young man named Linford. To all inquiries he answered that he was on his way to fast in the desert as his "Father" had commanded.
"Has it ever occurred to you, young man, that human nature has its selfish moments?" asked the high-church rector between sips of claret and water. "Has it ever occurred to you that human nature has any but selfish moments?" replied Bernal. "If so, your impression was incorrect." "Really, Mr. Linford, have you not just been telling us how glorious is this nature of man "
When he could no longer be reproached it transpired that he had left "to Allan Delcher Linford, son of one Clayton Linford," a beggarly pittance of five thousand dollars; and "to my beloved grandson, Bernal Linford, I give, devise and bequeath the residue of my estate, both real and personal."
Now God being a Presbiterian would know these 42 little ones had not been elected so they might as well be et up by bears as anything else to show forth his honour and glory Forever Amen. It should teach a Boy to be mighty carful about kidding old men unless he is a Presbiterian. I spelled every word in this right. "Mr. Allan Delcher Linford."
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