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And Mabel Fewne enjoyed it intensely; the change of air and of scene gave stimulus to her spirits and new grace to her form and features, so that she soon had at her feet all the unmarried men in Smithton, while many sober Benedicts admired as much as they could safely do without transferring their allegiance. Smithton was not inhabited exclusively by people of energy and culture.
Ther needs to be a word said for me by somebody somebody that don't chaw, nor drink, nor swear somebody that'll catch God's eye if He happens to be lookin' down and I never saw that kind of a person in Smithton till to-day." Mabel stood speechless, with a tear in each eye. "Don't, if you don't think best," continued Baggs. "I'd rather go to to t'other place than bother a lady.
But one season came in which those who envied and feared Mabel were left in peace, for that young lady determined to spend the Winter with her sister, who was the wife of a military officer stationed at Smithton, in the Far West.
He's as rough and worthless as I am, but all the roughness has gone out of him, just now, and he's thinking about his mother and a sweetheart he used to have. He wants some one to pray for him some one as unlike himself and his associates as possible. He cried for his mother then he whispered to me that he had seen, here in Smithton, a lady that looked like an angel seen her driving only to-day.
Smithton was a small town, but a pleasant one; it had a railroad and mines; a government land office was established there, as was the State Government also; trading was incessant, money was plenty, so men of wit and culture came there to pay their respects to the almighty dollar; and as there were nearly two-score of refined ladies in the town, society was delightful to the fullest extent of its existence.
Even more: One member of that apparently hopeless gang was known to wash his face and hands, purchase a suit of cheap but new and clean clothing, and take an eastern-bound train, presumably to appear among respectable people he had known during some earlier period of his existence. On the evening of the next day a delightful little party was enjoyed by the well-to-do inhabitants of Smithton.
New as was the town, the parlors of Mrs. Mabel Fewne was there, and as human nature is the same at Smithton as in the East, she was the belle of the evening.
New settlements, like all other things new, powerfully attract incapables, and Smithton was no excuse to the rule. In one portion of it, yclept "the End," were gathered many characters more odd than interesting. Their local habitations seemed to be the liquor-shops which fairly filled that portion of the town. About the doors of these shops the "Enders" were most frequently seen.
The stewards, too, Benner, and during the Reeve regime, Smithton, which whom as head nurse I was thrown in direct contact, never had any difficulty with me, although Benner with a twinkle in his eye, would say to me: “Cole, I believe you come and get peaches for your patients up there long after they are dead.”
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