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POWER OF ATTORNEY.
When the widow Ames had been notified that her
share of the Paul Jones prize-money would be paid her
upon presenting herself at the Dummer Bank, she debated
in her own mind, — though the debate never was
reported, — whether she should go herself or give a
power of attorney to some one else to receive the eleven
dollars and sixty-two cents that was her share. In this
strait she called on Mrs. Partington, who she knew
had authorized a person to settle the Beanville estate for
her when the Beanville Railroad had driven her from
the homestead.
“Go yourself, dear,” said the old lady, bringing the
poker down emphatically upon the bail of the tea-kettle,
as she was clearing out the ashes from the stove;
“don't trust to nobody but yourself, for,” — raising
the poker, — “if you give anybody power of eternity,
depend upon it you won't never see the final conclusion
of it.”
The poker fell again upon the harmless tea-kettle,
which seemed to sing out with reproach for the outrage,
and Ike, who was looking slyly into the back window,
wondered if Mrs. Ames was n't sitting on a favorite piece
of spruce gum of his, and whether it would n't stick her
to the chair so that she could n't get up. It showed
that the boy had a reflective turn of mind.
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