Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-10-23
"There's Your Grandfather Now
Said Lucy. .

nereS your GfdnoIatner NOW
Said Lucy. .
the open window afforded the occu.
pants Of the cutter a glimpse of a
tired, fine old face, a silk hat, a pearl
tie and an astrachan. collar, evidently
out to take the air.
"There's your grandfather now,'
said Lucy. isn't it?"
Georges frown was not relaxed.
eyes, it is and he ought to give that
rat trap away and sell those old
horses. They're a disgrace, all shaggy
not even clipped. l suppose he
doesn't notice it-people get awful
funny when they get old; they seem
to lose their self-respect, sort Of"
"He seemed a real Brummell to me-"
she said.
ooh, he keeps up about what he
wears, we'll enough, but Another
thing l don't think he ought to allow:
a good many people bought big lots
and they built houses on 'em; then
the price of the land kept getting
higher, and they'd sell part of their
yards and let the people that bought
it build on it to live in, till they
haven't hardly any of EN- got big, open
yards any more, and it's getting all
built up. The way it used to be it was
a g%entleman's country estate, and
that's the way my grandfather ought
to keep it. He let's these people take
too many liberties: they do anything
they want to-"
"But how could he stop them?"
Lucy asked, surely with reason. IF
he sold them the land it's theirs, isn't
it?'
George remained serene in the face
of this apparently difficult question.
HE ought to have all the tradespeople
boycott the families that sell part of
their yards that way. All he'd have to
do would be to tell the tradespeople
they wouldn't get any more orders
from the family if they didn't do it."
"From the family? What family?"
"Our family" said George, upper
turbed. 1.-THE Ambersons."
81 sect" she murmured, and evident
ly she did see something that he did
not, for, as she lifted her muff to her
face he asked:
"What are you laughing at now?"
"Why?"
"You always seem to have some
little secret of your own to get happy
over!"
".Always!'" she exclaimed. "What
a big word, when we only met last
| night!'
That's another case of it," he said,
with obvious sincerity. zone of the
reasons I don't like you-much lis
you've got that way Of seeming quiz
city superior to everybody else"
ell" she cried. 81 have?"
ooh, YOU think you keep it sort Of
confidential to yourself, but it's plain
enough! I don't believe in that kind
Of thing. / think the worlds like this:
there's a few people that their birth
and position, and so on, puts them at
the top, and they ought to treat each
other entirely as equals" His voice
betrayed a little emotion as he added,
II wouldn't speak like this to every
body"
"You mean you're coniding your
deepest creed-or code, what ever it
is-to mew
"Go on; make fun Of it, Them
George said bitterly. "You do think
you're terribly clever! 1t makes me
tired"
"Well, as you don't like my seeming
quietly SUPERIOR after this I'll be nofs-
lily superior" she returned cheerfully.
"We aim to please"
II had a notion before I came for
you today that we were going to quar-
rel" he said.
"No, we won't; it takes two! She
laughed and waved her huff toward q
new house. not quite completed, stand
ing In a field upon their right. They
had passed beyond ANDERSON addition
and were leaving the northern fringes
Of the town for the open country.
isn't. that n beautiful house T.. she. ex'