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1! . - - - 11HW . .... . nMMAtT. Virt A ConoABT. Copyri rZL Vv tvyisyNN fu-'M'vn m n m (8 CHAPTER XIX Continued. AC By BOOTH TARKINGTON - m. Jfm J4m J4m VlV1S jTim5 that ills health would suffer and he avenue met 'Amberson boulevard here had been downtown only In a closed at an btusengle, and the removal of earrlajre. He had not realized the the pillars made the boulevard seem a great change. " - - . , c -1 cross street of no ' overpowering lm The streets were thunderous, a vast ' portance-certalnlj'tt did not seem to energy heaved under the universal Douievaroi coating of dinglness. George waited George walked by the Mansion hur through the begrimed crowds of hur- riedly.and came home to his mother's rvine straneers and saw no face that.nouse ior me lasi ume. " . 1 - 1 1 A. A Ik. h am nmhors ot i lmntiness was mere. lOO. &I1U IUP . nth lifter her death he walked into Fanny's room, one night. ' . found her at her desk, eagerly lne columns of figures with which o had covered several sheets of pa- pUV , t Wm startled me. MiPOrKC - - "i bee your pardon for not knock : A i?iid huskily. "I didn't think.' IDg;.a turned in her chair and looked tt him felicitously. "Sit down, George. fon't you x' t inst wanted- I could hear you walking up and , nr mrnn." said Fanny. "Yon tere doing It ever since dinner, and TAcGras to me you're at It almost " Jry evening. I don't believe it's good V -ou-and I know it would worry your mother terribly if she "Fan- ny hesitaicu. as you're answering evaded, and tried to be gentle 1 I don't care to be handled with gloves ! I tell you I was right, : and I don't need any coddling by people that think I wasn't I And I suppose you believe I was wrong not to let Morgan see her that last night when he came here, and she she was dying. ' If you do, why in the name of God did you come and ask me? You could have taken him in l She did want to see him. She--" Miss Fanny looked startled. "You think" - "She told me sol" And the tortured young man choked. "She said Just once.' She said Td like to have seen him just once IV She meant to tell him good-bye! That's what she meant 1 And you put this on me, too ; you put this responsibility on me ! "it's 'curious about the deed to hen house,") he said to his nephew. "You're absolutely sure it wasn't among her pa pers?" t ;" r j - v - '-- m "Mother didn't have any papers, George! told Mm. ."None at all. aii she ever had to do with business was to denoslt the checks grandfather gave ber, and then write her own checks! against them. "The deed to the house was never recorded." Amberson said thoughtful ly. "I've been over to the courthouse to see. I think it would be Just as well to get him to execute one now in your favor, m speak to mm aooui It." ; - - Georee sighed. "I don't think xa bother; Him about it; the house is mine, nnd vou and I understand that it; is. That's enough for me, and there isn't but not with great cheerfulness. "Well survive, Georgle you will, es- f aces were even of a kind he did not remember ever to have seen ; they were partly like the old type that his boyhood knew, and partly like type he knew .abroad. Hd saw Ger man eyes with American wrinkles at their cornei? ; he saw Irish eyes and Neapolitan eyes, Roman eyes, Tuscan eyes, eyes of Lombardy, or Savoy, peclally. For my part Tm little too HJungarlan eyeSt Balkan eyes. Scandl old and too accustomed to fall back on somebody else for supplies to start a big fight with' life ; I'll be content with Just surviving, and I can do it on an elghteen-hundred-dollar-a-year con-, sulshlp. An ex-congressman can al ways be pretty sure of getting some such Job,- and I hear from Washing ton the matter's about settled. So much for me 1 But '"you of course natton eyes all with a queer Ameri can look in them. He saw. Jews who were no longer German or Russian or Polish Jews. All the people were soil ed hy the smoke-mist through which they hurried, under the heavy sky that hung close upon the new skyscrapers, and nearly all seemed harried, by closing of the door resounded through bare rooms; for downstairs there was no furniture Jn the house except a kitchen table In the dining room, which Fanny had kept "for dinner," she said, though as she was lo cook and serve that meal herself fteorge had. his doubts about her name for it. Upstairs, she had retained her rvn furniture, and George had "been ftving In his mother's room, having snt everything from his own to the auction. Isabel's room was istlll as It had been, but the furniture would be moved with Fanny's to new quarters in the morn ing. Fanny had made plans ior ner nepbTr as well as herself; she had fount a "three-room kitchenette apart ment In an apartment house where . .i something impending, inougn nero auu. old rienda or hers had estab- LAltA C V J w - - i 11.1 Mil . IlillW UL you've had a poor training for maiang j hlng to a companion about some your own way, but you re only boy adventnrevof the department store, or aner an, ana me swu. i. pernaps an escape from the cnarging is in you. ItH come out and do some- trafflc Qf tte streets and not infre thlng. I'll never forgive myself about tly a girl, or a free-and-easy nco here, ucwi&c o fast" "Iwant to tell you once more that what I did was right How could I have done anything else but what I m0b I don't pretend to Judge," Fan ny said soothingly, for his voice and cesture both partook of wlldness. I know you think you did. George' 'Think I did!'" he echoed vlolent- . ..Tir rinA in heaven I" And he :a'n to walk up and down the floor, urchnt else was there to do?- What did I have? Was there any nf stoDDine the talkr He s opped, close In front of her. gestlc- stopped you. tilotlnff hiS VOlce uaraii auu . i - - nVas there any other way on earth of protecting her from the talk?" Miss Fanny looked away. "It died down before long, I think," she said nervously. f "That shows I was right, doesn't it? te cried. "If I hadn't acted as I did, that slanderous old Johnson woman ould have kept on wltn ner sianaers -she'd still be" "No," Fanny Interrupted. "She's dead. She dropped dead with apoplexy one day about six weeks after you left. I didn't mention it in my let ters because I didn't want I thoiiftht " . "Well, the other people would have I kept on, then. They'd have "I don't know," said, , Fanny, still averting her troubled eyes. "Things are so changed here, George. The oth er people you speak of one hardly knows what's become of them. 'Of course not a great many were doing ho toivinf nnd thev well, some of tuv Q V Rnf T foil nnd T told Uncle likely TO De mucn xrouuie uccu George, that the responsibility isn't land roe when we come to settling poor n t -t trova or. ciiro T wflst cmnfltatner s esiaie. x ye juav ii T tAAir hor with him. and I think It would only away, and when I turned Morgan out confuse him ior you to speu u m e mr dirt vmi about it again. I notice he seems dls- ' """" J" 7 i.A .f nt. . a if - Von find TTnp fl tressea uujuuujr ui k " ci uic.w4fc.iw. v. i . t o-m- . Krvtv. rf I tentlon ne s a wug-waj u". w vteuiuo c feivuu r , f wftV. vou weren't you? You were older wnere, auu . w v ----- - uu, wacui jv.i t n.iu t ifclnV mnthor wnnlrtn't Want xi T A t r naA ort euro itati H lUlUa i niiiii. ui.v ..v uiau a, uuu jruu . v(m .Knnt it; I'm snre . i . T . 1 4M- US I II I1UL11C1 41U UUWM. , were wiser tnan i, Wuy um .JU . - him alone. He down, 'and let me go ahead? You looks so white and queer. could have stopped it if it was wrong, couldn't your Fanny shook her head. "No, George,1 she said slowly. "Nobody could have You were too strong, tt "And"what?" he demanded loudly. "And she loved you too well. Amberson shook his head. "I won t bother him any more thah I can help; but Til have the deed made out ready for his signature." "I wouldn't bother him at all. I don't see " You might see," said his uncle un- easllv. "The estate is just aDom a GAZ rSiS teTen Id. .-oKea and M - a. estate , k n mnv ronvulslvelv. can wen get, to ine wwj iuwci 64 i - - . . -ir tn hnvf tllftt deeO. CVIftC xuu vuguv v - and he set his teeth upon It but could not check its frantic twitching. He ran out of the room. She sat still, listening. He had plunged Into his mother's room, but no sound came to Fanny's ears after the sharp closing of the door ; and pres ently she rose and stepped out into the hall but com a near nuunug. What interview was sealed away from hnmnn eve and tear within the lonely darkness on the other side of that door In that darkness where Isabel's own special chairs were, and her own social books, and the two great wal- Tmf-wardrobes filled with her dresses and wraps? What tragic argument might be there . vainly striving to con- fnte the eentie aeaar j-"u vs;hatelse could I have doner For his mother's Immutable silence was nswrincr htm as Isabel In life - - !.. c DUlllJ ' " ... J them are dead, ana some migut tt W0Tlld never have answered mm, anu veil be you never see them any more he wag beginning to understand how -nnd the rest, whoever tney were, oauent the dead can be. 'xney can crooaDiv so iinxeu m il cnn thoi r p nnuence. v I ! IIUL 0LULI that deed ; it would have given you something substantial to start with. Still, you have a little tiny bit, and you'll have -a little tiny salary, too; and of course your Aunt Fanny's here, and she's got something you can fall back on if you get too pinched, until I can begin to send you a dribble now and then." . Gportre'a - "little tlnv bit" was six hundred dollars which had come to him from the sale of his mother's fur- niture; and the "little uny salary j was eight dollars a week which old rranK uronsou was w kj 4 services as a clerk and student-at- law. George had accepted haughtily,! end thereby removed a Durueu. aux. his uncle's mind. Amberson himself, however, had not even a"tlny bit;" though he got hist consular appointment, and to take mm -to his post he found It necessary to borrow two hundred of his nephew's "six hundred dollars. "It makes me sick, George," he said. 'But I'd bet ter get there and get that salary start ed.. Of course Eugene would do any thing in the world, and the fact is ne young matron, found time to throw ah encouraging look to George. - He took no note of these, and, leav- intr tht "crowded sidewalks, turned "No, don't bother him.' Til bother him as little as possible. m wait till some day when he seems wanted t0, but I felt that ah under o brighten up a little. the circumstances im ii ir r m r m m kta n i '.'1MB 1 ivt fill n vmi iim lUi 1 If If I II I MID I1 I Bit1 11 UJfl IW If 'There Have Been Times , When Thought You Ought to Be Hangea." of new people that seem never even to have heard of us and I'm sure we certainly, never heard of them and people seem to forget things so soon they seem to forget anything. You can't imagine how things have changed herei" ' .. - George gulped painfully before he could speaks "You you mean to sit there and tell me that if I'd just let things go on Oh 1" He swung away. matter how they have loved the living; they cannot choose. And so, no matter m what agony George should cry out, "What else could I have done?" and to the end of his life no "There wasn't any tnmg. acre, uuu the sun in the first place, and the earth came out . of the sun, and we came out of the earth. So, whatever we are, we must have been In the sun. We go back to the earth we came out ot so the earth will go back to the sun Matter how that it came, out of. And time means id ot ma me thin-nothln: at all-so In a wistful, faint murmur. . Ma vnn(1 uncertainly as If Td like to have-seen mm. oufc rea(ing for something, and George nCe- : A superstitious , person jumped up. "Did you want anything. i--niMr,n v. flnnn atrain ' T tell vou . vKnvt it-nnfnrtnnate that erandfather? ..a.ub C v4 - - BOigni: nave iu"6"fc .V ,,XTai.v, i. niinar in STWCU1UUVC muuir - try as in Wilbur's disastrous rolling mills, was that charming but too hap- llsheA themselves elderly widows of cltizew once "prominent" and other retired gentry. People used their own kitchenettes" for breakfast and luncu. but there was a table-d'hote arrange ment fw dinner on the ground floor; and after dinner bridge was played all evening, an attraction powerful with Fanny.- She had "made all the arrangements," she reported, and ner vously appealed for approval, asking If she hadn't shown herself "pretty prac tical" in such matters. George acqui esced absent-mindedly, not thinking or what she said and not realizing to what it committed him. He began to realize it now, as he wendered about the dismantled house; htTwas far from sure that he-was willing to live In a "three-room apart ment" with Fanny and eat Dreakiasi- and lunch with her (prepared by her self in the "kitchenette") and dinner at the table d'hote :n "such a pretty Colonial dining room" (so Fanny de scribed It) at a little round table they would have all to themselves In the midst of a dozen little round tables which other relics of disrupted fam ilies would have all to themselves. or the first time, now that the change . was imminent, -George began to devel op before his mind's eye pictures of vbat he was In for; and. they appalled tlm. He decided that such a life verged upon the sheerly unbearable, in that after all there were some things left that he just couldn't stand. So he made up his mind to speak to his aunt about it at "dinner," and tell her that he preferred to ask Bronson to let him put a sofa-bed, a trunic ana a folding rubber -bathtub - bemna n screen in the dark rear room of the of fice. - " ' But at "dinner" Fanny i was nerv ous, and so distressed about the fail ure of her efforts with sweetbreads nnd macaroni; and she was so eager In her talk of how comfortable they, would be "by this time tomorrow night After "dinner" he went upstairs, moving his hand slowly along the smooth Walnut railing of the balus trade. Half way , to the ; landing he turned, and stood r loosing m uai . "Would vou like a glass of water? " w . t ? TNo no. No ; I don't want anytning. probable that from this time on we'll that gagging porch a laughing woman only know each' other by letteMintil had fed hlm and other boys with you're notified as my next of kin that doughnut4 and gingerbread; yonder ho there's an old valise to be forwarded gaw tne staggered relics of the iron to you. and perhaps some dusty curios pIcket fence he had made his white Y.a. (vn&niflti manteiuiece. ei. i rvnrw inmn. on a aare, uuu iMW "UUJ '-" ' . . . f"J 4-. - . . lUt it an odd wav for us to De sayiug Khnhbv. stone-faced nouse ueu.uu good bye; one wouldn't have thought fence he had gone to children s par- it, even a few years are, two gentlemen UUV.C Ui I 414 " , it, rt 4.11 .,4. ttthi vnrnpn at aii. can i nT.ontiv hv rorce. .uuue t. ever ieu wuafc ... I ueir, uiiiu."" The aoume 4-i.uiifc ago, DUfc ueic "c ties, and, .wnen ne w " . ,7 i th or eiegani nyyeai- he had danced tnere oneu, a. , nstituae. vy e cuu w th Marv anaruu, auu i begun to look discouraging. Things i iv hiPflk. and I'm only glad you vi r - tMncf didn't go Into this comouuuC 4, Avfant T nld. " W luc.. .t... i. met Miss Fanny grewpmK. et right i" she protested. "We w with our own eyes worked out in the snopc.m "Oh, you're rignt aooui. iberson said. "It certalnly was a per fect thlng-in tne wyv. -f;-; "But think of tnat tesw "I Did the Right Thingr I Tell You. Luckily, you 1 aid the only right thing I You think 1 was wrong 1" "I'm nnt.Rvlnr ha" ah Rflid. ' "You did at the time!" he cried, my uncle's, ou said Whnt hnvA do anything "Nothing, George' : 1 mTin trv " said Amberson. "Tt'o tol" "He can try, suw . . . Id at the time!" he criea. mut7 nrFflnJ,Vs cheeks became enough then. I think. Well, , PMthat man going to 8 you to say now, if you're temedy it? -Can't he Rnt Amberson walted'too long. The Kvpr I" Oeoree exclaimed, growing Major had already taken eleven months ..j imagine one of the f am- since his daughters deatn to minis. n 'He paused, not nnding u important things out. une evem6 necessary to explain that "tne iam hls grandson sat with him the Major I ghot turn a man from the seemed to like nest to uave j"uu6 dooj flnd then accept tavors irom mm. George with him, so far as xney were wign ,d take m0re.' able to guess his preierences uuu Ainberson decUned. "One tnmg rn old gentleman made a queer gesture; - for y0u, young George; you have- he slapped his knee as if he nao maae o stingy bone ln y0Ur body. That's a sudden discovery, or else remember- ne bergon stock" in you and I like ed that he had forgotten something. , npori?e looked at him with an air Qf n o nmethine to this praise ny mtn National avenue, and pres- Inquiry, but said nothing. He had of his nephew on the day he left for ently reached the quieter but no less crown to be almost as sueui . H s not t0 return, hprlmed reelon of smaller snops uuu grandfather. However, the Major tQ gef. forth from the capital on old.fashloned houses. Those latter had spoke without being. questioned. e long journey to his post. George been the homes of his boyhood play- "It must be in the sun," ne saiu. t itn him to the station, and mates. old friends of his grandiatner , - n lontrthpnofi dv me i . j it a thij fliiev ne nau tneir iarewen ; . - nau uycu ut ctnnnMi turned, and stooa iwkiuk train's being several minutes late, j fougnt with two boys at tne "- - the heavy doors masking th "I may not see you again, oeorgie, tlme, and whipped them; m hl k emDtiness that had been the Amberson said, and his voice was u yard'he had been successiuuy -r - Here he had stood on' what little husky as he set a kind hand on Into temporary Insanity by a bduuiij ' knew was the worst day of his the young man's shoulder. "It's quite SChool class of pmty mue giria." . had stood when his moth- er passed through that doorway, nana-In-hand with her brother, to learn what her son had done. - He went on more heavily, more slow ly; and, more heavily and slowly still, entered Isabel's room and shut the door. He did not come forth again. and bade Fanny good-night tnrougn closed door when she stoppea oui- later. - I've nut all the lights out, George, she said. "Everything's all rights " "Very well," he called. "Good night. Aunt Fanny." His voice had a strangled sound Jn spite of him; but she seemed not w . notice it, and he heard ner go w own room and lock, herself - in - with bolt and key against burglars. She had said the one thing she should not have said Just then : -"I'm t sure, your mother's watching over you, Georgle." She had meant to be kind, but It de stroyed his last chance for sleep that night. He would have slept little if she had not said It. -but since she had said it he did not sleep at alL .For he knew that it was true if it could di true Jhat his mother, if she. still lived in spirit, would be weeping,; on the other side of the wall ot silence, weep ing and seeking for some gate, to let her through so that she. could come and "watch over him." -ttp felt that if there were such gates or.B r ruL T; mw8 alwavs Um. of life" which the world. In its ere 8urely ed: they were Hybout vou ke that-fond of you. rolling, inconsiderately flattens out to ' thosc awfal llDrary do0rs down en;.fnlCt?erow much it seem- nothingness, the least like totaUa had shut her In to bgin ' .nt to be hanzed. You might a profile Is that meai ' t mnat run. ni send Upon inheriting money, wr signed her. wr " 41, I in finite of his record ot i . T.ni' Noth- 1 -t. iV TnnDW fl TRSI UB fc4CJ I irewu, tr . i I IDK roUU WM me-so i good bye and God bless you. ures in buslnesshad "JP tag had been changed: even the pho- Si00 5 , I when he realized at last , that money. - Q the Major and fncrh the eates. wavefl like life, was "like 5"'-- f "brother George", still stood'on her other shfe nest of cracks." ' Andnis nepaew r u- - - -d lQ a dwer of her 9 naiuwru, - . U, nwakPnlnir experience 01 Beciu . - vwPT1t nnd f thft iron screen, and was ua vu. - xofo vn! shine aesx was an ou iiuu .r"4""" v - . . Jl I 4a OMDT A TT1 1 Jff 4BU44 sight in the hurrying crowd. - 'Mn a twlnklfng; it he disappeared, an tmexp lt was indeed so ut- a nnra I J i.i. hnnil Hrnnnpd hack UD I t i mnnnv hnth hehave like I .i.i.n tn fho hall Srson He was one of those op- n the arm of his chair, and he re- L qnlcksllver in a nest of cracks doorSf of meanlnglessly carved walnut Amberson. lae ua u ..ti. hut a few mln- . . vov.rfl one we can't tell n cn inssiiv varnished, had been timlsts who neneve wav ... mpsea miu ;:..a 1,0 nucu 9 - .. Hrt uuvc . "I". "" - Kf th smoke uuv monev Into a great many enterprises utes later he finisnea me where or what tne uevu " on? of them is sure to turn out a fdr- had begun: 'em! But I believe I'll say now-whlle Sne! and VeXe, in order to find j wn somebody could tell me I" there isn't much time left for ever thP ; luckv one. it is only necessary to jThe next day he had a slight cold, ot ns to get embarrassed about it 1 the lucicy one, ii 1 j The next aay v.,- T, BOV that I've always been n- a I Qrt'P RUUUtU ouuv. - 1 oodmfd unnnv cu tt - ucucic 1 uc .. . , .. Sv 4ii.v . " v. . mv i "c " .. - Am. I - iir oii cnniipfi vou ter-1 v, iot "xvniK nome , UB Ynn oueht to nave uwugiu i Ciiwfpsted calling tne aociur, - IOna 01 yuu. nc . ? wxms -wao .i - - reorTand stayed out." he told Fanny. "J ghave his own way o rib, wnen yon were a was ever to take "ety the next spring, when the at tllat aer he hadgotP le you grow np en .ZT j A 4V, a neartnernt comuuuj v. painted smoke gray, grime showed repulsively, even on the nnd over the doors a smoked sign proclaimed the place to be a "Stag hotel - A-MtiT rr i A. A 1 - if 1 1 VI1UVCI 4 onri dressed, the following uiuiuo, must say you iw w . ,V- 1 1 Amoerson a'" wenn and dresseu, nWav , rttv heaw iolt and 1 ,npa at the foot of Amberson Via was all alone viacju 4v - - icccncu u. - - , . uw,v - ... ia v 4V,a S SUat he hadn't been able had enougb of your disposition, myself, e; for tonight would e the to find out wnai . a h-ul . ,iorStand ft little of w to-v,t that he and Fanny were to tli'nlr out all tnose nuuo" ai your age, . - , . i,a'Uo1rtr L0,' -rmebody" would teU him. wnat COcksure youth baa to ?o through spend In the house .whlchMaJor Old Sam, shuffling ln wltn tne urea--f ast tray, found the Major in his ac customed easy-chair by the fireplace -and yet even the old darkey could see Instantly that tne major w there. . . CHAPTER XX. 7., 4 4 invelv." he aommeu. , vstate ; -xoafc iwv .., ,io i Tenon the ereai aiuuwou- 5-JT!Sf rnd'S Sson wentlnto court oral" -- . 4V, o nieht I wasn't any, ueorge li and I went whirling through tte wasnt ay, settlement was con t a sneed that thrilled us. " - wflS no estate. He re- et ttnd weeT. , "uaometh.ngn,usthedonng It must indeed! .MT T.f ?"1D. A?d those pigs. Sydne: and Amelia 1" he added, for thlsw' ar..v twnff he was bitter- about. nnTthlne: rm sorry "i ntv nuu w ... . , 4j 4vn. I. ran rnnkfl I . 3 4r.i in iAMi to Isabel. io ! J A n.han IT 1 1 1 1 f 1 M IIinL , I mill llimULLCU fcvr. terrible mistakes. Well, with my train morTOw they were ;to Love out," and coming into the shed, you'll iorgiv George was to Degin u rr me foSr saying that there have been offlce. He had I not tottto times when I thought you ougnt o collapse w tnout a a - haneed but Tve always Deen tie struggle wua l"nai"'rZ.f w i and now I like youl And just lng worid was not agitated I by it, you, anu uwn- . rnrnek,' .imw nn. For of all the for a last worn; mere ikuu r, ',. . his "He rve sat in the shop -,4r,,-tr making I cave them tne uyyvifc a poUshed refusal. The estate was bad ly crippled, even before they took om and the 'third' they took men .44" 4 c l . i n n- rve Bat 44 - rneir iuuui . . . i4n said, and he went on with a sudden la for several beautiful the only good part blttpr 4,. w.n -nrftrh. watching him try . ; - , i wn t didn't ask them for res- yourself with what you had to do S000' mnst make him keep on tltutl0n on-my own account, and at ith an that; and you're trying to . m - " , least . it win save you .se trouble, mftlta im I. ax or, aavinff trying , e.tttntri" fionTv- Never waste any,nm ttink 'moZrd wa.5 .I!!- Ute'oi ihe time he .ng To them ; you mt count. on yon to, and vou think I couldn't stand 11 I got to thinking I might have one differently." Oh, I know ! That's Rctly what's in your mindV you do think I was wrong I So does Uncle Qgt. I challenged him about It cihsr day, and he answered just Spenr 'or th fractious Ught. Amber, inventor OI tne v ,M,xmmA 1 r,A onnortunity t to y -:- SOn J.uu.x4 matter Of DUSiness. Selt about another matter This was ue estite. V' ...I ',''"-! na ioM rirn!ptlV. I "I don 1, . , vw,. t -"-;:- Vlvn't - rount on anything.", V':' ';. ..i. ,nf not feel that things are quite desperate," Amberson laughed. TMtr7. taken together, wiucn had found but had slowly ciosea away nut loneliness fell upon his nephew so seemear now ln from 8ight..not touching it. xo- antlonellnsieaup had terly. vanished. . . mnrrow everything would . be gone ; neavuy - ahock. it On this last homeward wai ---- - there was not long seemed to him that the last tragus... r " ,Hnn that is. when he to wait peuv ITTH "w7.h of his familiar world leaving him all alone forever. ' He walked homeward siowijr w what , appeared , to be the strange city, and, as a matter of fact, the W to him. He had seen Ut- tie; of : It during his years In coUege. Be iBSl A V" wnn nddltlon-that is. had disappearcn, ; - ------ fiT,Trnnri had for- Tnpriv been he gave a little start. and halted for a" moment to stare, rrht. th first time he had no- tlced that the stone pillars, naarking the entrance, had been removeu. be demolished. The very space which tonight was stIU Isabel room would be cut Into new shapes' by new walla and floors and ceilings; yet the room would always live, for it could not die out of George's, memory. It would live- a8 long as ale uiu, uuu fc.v "4 11 1 4V.r -Fnr a innsr uiue uc 4v4 m Z.L?Zrtli of aueemess about be murmurous with a. .tragic fc4- - t!ia,hrtfOee"u"ov,w"" . . since that Deeu iw"wv 7 -oV of whlsDerlnz. sence and ma uuB -. ir. this corner .whuuuw t 1 rfb bb CONTINUED4 . . Mcrnpiv outdoors at all x - v,a 4ff.-ria. National a www- as Fanny, complained, - warning hini I w.
Polk County News and The Tryon Bee (Tryon, N.C.)
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Feb. 27, 1920, edition 1
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