Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-10-24

i've seen any number like that, east
You can see all you want of 'em II
you stand on Fifth avenue half an
hour any afternoon. I've seen hall
q dozen go by almost at the same
time-within a few minutes, anyhow
and of course electric hansOms are q
common sight there any day. hired
one myself the last time / was there
4 How fast do Mr.. Morgan's machines
go?"
Much too fast! It's very exhila-
rating but rather frightening; and
they do make q fearful uprOar. He
says, though, he thinks he sees way
to get around the noisiness in time.
II don't mind the noise,' said
George. "Give me a horse for mine
though, any day. must get up race
with one of these things; Pendennis'll
leave it one mile behind in a twO-mile
run. How's grandfather?'
'He looks well, but he complains
sometimes of his heart"
George had taken off his coat. y
don't like to hint to a lady," he said
'but I do want to dress before din
ner."
Don't be long; I've got to do q
] lot of looking at you, dear! She
kissed him and ran away, singing.
But his Aunt Fanny was not sc
! fond; and at the dinner table there
came a spark of liveliness into hel
eyes when George patronizingly asked
her what was the news in her OWE
particular line of sport"
i 'sWell. what's the gossip? Yor
usually hear pretty much everything
that goes on around the hooks ane
crannies in this town, hear. What's
the last from the gossips' corner
! auntie?'
Fanny dropped her eyes, but 8
movement of her lower lip betokeneC
a tendency to laugh as she replied
'There hasn't been much gossip lately
1 except the report that Lucy Morgan
and Fred Kinney are engaged-and
that's quite old by this time"
There was clatter upon Georges
j plate. "What-what do you think
you're talking about?' he gasped.
Miss Fanny looked up innocently
about the report of Lucy Morgan's
engagement to Fred Kinney
George turned dumbly to his mother
and Isabel shook her head reassur
ingly. People are always startins
rumors," she said. 81 haven't paiC
any attention to this one"
But you-you've heard it?" hi
stammered.
"Oh, one hears all sorts of nonsense
dear. I haven't the slightest idea
that it's true"
"Then you have heard it'll"
George turned pale.
Eat your dinner, George" hi:
aunt said sweetly. FOOD will do you
good. / didn't say / knew this rumol
was true. only said I'd heard it."
Fanny, you're hard-hearted crea
ture," Isabel said gently. ''You really
are. Don't pay any attention to her
George. Fred Kinney's only clerl
in his uncle's hardware place: hi
couldn't marry for ages-even if any
body would accept him!"
George breathed unanimously. g
don't care anything about ages
What's that got to do with it," he
said, his thoughts appearing to b.
somewhat disconnected. cages, don,
mean anything! / only want to know
/ II want to know | want" He
/ stopped.
! "You must finish your dinner, dear,
his mother urged. Don't
II have finished. I've eaten all
want. / don't want any more than
wanted. / don't want-I-" He rose
still incoherent. II prefer-I want
please excuse me!'
4 He left the room, and moment
later the screens outside the opeI
front door were heard to slam.
Fanny! You shouldn't"
/ Isabel, don't reproach me. He die
have plenty Of dinner, and / only told
the truth: everybody has been say
ing"
1--WE don't actually know there
isn't Miss Fanny insisted, giggling
We've never asked Lucy"
II wouldn't ask her anything so alb
surd !"
George would Georges father re
marked. That's what he's gone tt
do
Mr.. Minafer was not mistaken: thai
was what his son had gone to do
Lucy and her father were just rising
from their dinner table when the
stirred youth arrived at the front
door of the new house. 1t was a cot
tage, however, rather than a house
and Lucy had taken a free hand with
the architect, achieving results in
white and green outside and white
and blue inside to such effect Of youth
and daintiness that her father com
planned of "too much springtime =
The whole place, including his own
bedroom, was young damsel's bou
doir, he said, so that nowhere could
| he smoke a cigar without feeling like
ruffian. However, he was smoking
when George arrived, and he encour
aged George to join him in the pas
time, but the caller, whose air was
both tense and preoccupied, declined
with something like agitation.
81 never smoke-that is. I'm sell
dom-I mean, no, thanks" he said
I'I mean not at all. I'd rather not
Aren't you well, George?" Eugene
asked, looking at him in, perplexity
"Have you been overworking at col.
lege? You do look rather pa