The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-12-19

ma king motor cars: / hear there's u
great deal in manufacturing these
| things that motor cars use-new inven-
tions particularly. / met dear old
Frank Bronson the other day. and he
told me"
''Oh, yes. even dear old Franks got
the fever" ANDERSON laughed Hes
as wild as any of tlYem. He told me
about this invention he's gone into,
too. Millions I'm it Some new cleo
trio headlight better than anything
| yet-'every car In America can't help
but have EN- and all that. Hes put
| ting nalf he's laid by into it. and the
fact is he almost talked me into get
| ting father to finance me- enough for
me TO 90 into it. Poor fatherl he's
| financed me before. l suppose he
would again if l had the heart to ask
him. At any rate I've been thinking
| it over"
$50 have l." Fanny admitted. HE
seemed 10 be certain ii would pay
twenty-five per cent the first year, and
enormously more after that: and I'm
only getting four on my little princi-
pal People are making such enor-
! nous fortunes out of everything 10 do
with motOrcars. it does seem as if"
She paused. 'Well, | told him I'd
think it over seriously"
I'VE may turn out TO be partners
and millionaires then" Anderson
laughed. Il thought I'd ask Eugene's
advice"
II wish you would" said Fanny. "He
probably knows exactly how much
profit there would be in this"
Eugene's advice was to 'go slow :"
he thought electric lights for automo-
jiles were "coming-sone day" but
probably not until certain difficulties
! discouragng, but by this time his two
friends had the fever" as thoroughly
as old Frank Bronson himself had it (;
for they had been with Bronson 10 see
the light working beautifully in Il maj
chine shop. Perfect" Fanny cried.
"And if it worked in the shop its
bound to work any place else, isn't
it?"
Eugene would not agree it was
bound to''-yet, being pressed. was
driven to admit that ait might" and
to an oratorical contest, repeated Il
warning about not putting too much
into it,
George ANDERSON also laid stress on
caution later, though the Major had
Financed him" again, and he was go
ing in" You must be careful to leave
yourself margin of safety Fanny"
he said You must be careful to leave
yourself enough to fall back on, in
case anything should go wrong"
Fanny deceived him. In the i'm
possible event of anything going
wrong she would have enough left
to live on" she declared, and laughed
eXcitediy. for she was having the best
| time that had come 20 her since VIII
bul's death. Like so many women for
whom money has always been pro-
| vided without their understanding
how. she was prepared TO be thor
ough and irresponsible plunger.
ANDERSON. in his wearier way.
shared her excitement, and in the
winter, when the exploiting company
| had been formed and he brought
Fanny her Importantly engraved
shares of stock, he reverted to his pre-
diction of possibilities, made when
they first spoke of the new light.
| I'VE seem TO be partners, all right, :"
he laughed "Now let's go ahead and
be millionaires before Isabel and young
George come home"
"When they come homer she
echoed sorrowfully-and it was Il
phrase which found an evasive echo
! iii Isabers letters. In these letters
Isabel was always planning pleasant
| things that she and Fanny and the
Major and George and brother