Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-10-31

"Pm afraid poor Aunt Fanny might
think now fathers gone we won't want
her to live with us any longer and be-
cause always leased her SO much she
might think I'd be for turning her out.
I don't know where on earth she'd go
] or what she could live on if we did do
something like this, and of course we
never would do such a thing, but I'm
/ pretty sure she had something of the
kind on her mind. She didn't say any
thing, but the way she looked is what
makes me think So Honestly, to me
she looked just scared sick. You tell
her there isn't any danger in the world
of my treating her like that. Tell her
everything is to go on just as. it al
| ways has. Tell her to cheer up!"
Isabel did more for Fanny than tell
/ ing her to cheer up. Everything that
Fanny inherited from her father, old
Aleck Minafer, had been invested in
Wilbur's business; and Wilbur's bust
ness, after period of illness CORE
spending in dates to the illness of Will
bur's body, had died just before VIII
bur did. George Anderson and Fanny
were both wiped out to a miracle of
precision as Anderson said. They
"owned not penny and owed not a
penny" he continued, explaining his
phrase. Its like the moment just be-
fore drowning: you're not under water
and you're not out of it. All you know
is that you're not dead yet
/ He spoke phiiosophically, having, his
prospects from his father to fall
back upon; but Fanny had neither
prospects" nor philosophy. However.
a. legal survey of Wilbur's estate re-
vealed the fact that his life insurance
was left clear of the wreck; and Isa-
| bel, with the cheerful consent of her
son, promptly turned this salvage over
ITO her sister-in-law. Invested, it would
yield something better than nine hum
dred dollars year, and thus she was
assured of becoming neither pauper
nor a dependent, but proved to be, as
/ Anderson said, adding his efforts to
the cheering up Of Fanny, IAN heiress,
] after all, in spite of rolling mills and
the devil"
The collegian did not return to his
home for the holidays. Instead, Isa-
! bel Joined him, and they went South
for. the two weeks. She was proud of
! her stalwart, good-looking son at the
/ hotel where they stayed, and it was
! meat and drink to her when she saw
how people stared at him in the lobby
!, and on the big erandas-indeed, her
vanity in him was so dominant that
/ she was unaware of their staring at
her with more interest and an adj
miration friendlier than George
evoked.
Both of them felt constantly the diff
ference between this Christmas time
and other Christmas times of theirs
in all, it was a sorrowful holiday But
/ when Isabel came East for Georges
commencement, in June, she brought
Lucy with her-and things began to
seem different, especially when George
Anderson arrived with Lucy's father
on class day. Eugene had been in New
4 York, on business; ANDERSON easily
persuaded him to this outing; and they
made cheerful party of it, with the
new graduate of course the hero and
center of it ALL
His uncle was fellow alumnus.
"Yonder was where / roomed when
was here he said, pointing out one of
| the university buildings to Eugene. 81
don't know whether George would let
my admirers place tablet to mark
the spot. or not. He owns all these
buildings now, you know
Didn't you, when you were here?
Like uncle, like nephew"
"Pm sure didn't have it so badly
at his age" Anderson said reflectively,
as they strolled on through the COM
mencement crowd.
Eugene laughed. "You need only
three things TO explain all that's good
and bad about Georgia."
'"Tnree?"
"He's Isabel's only child. He's an
Anderson. He's boy"
"Well, Mister Bones, of these three
things which are the good ones and
which are the had ones?'
"An of them" said Eugene.
George took no conspicuous part in
either the academic or the social cele
brations of his class he seemed to re-
gard both sets of exercises with toll
Grant amusement. his own crowd
mot going in much for either of those
sorts of things" as he explained to
Lucy. What his crowd had gone in for
remained ambiguous; some negligent