Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-11-27

poor old silly Fanny Minaferl Eugen
didn't cure what risks Georgia took. o
how much decent stuff he had In him
nothing that George would ever do 4
this world or the next could chang
Eugene Morgan's feeling toward him
If Eugene had wished, he could cas-
lily have taken George out of the nitro
glycerin branch Of the chemical works
Always interested In apparent impos
sibilities of invention, Eugene had en-
couraged many experiments In sucl
groupings as those for the discovery o.
substitutes for gasoline and rubber
and, though his mood had withheld til,
information from Kinney, he had re
Gently bought from the elder Akers {
substantial quantity of stock on the
condition that the chemical company
should establish an experimental labo
ratory. he intended to buy more
Akers was anxious to please him; ana
a word from Eugene would have
placed George almost anywhere in the
chemical works. The possibility just
edged itself into Eugene's mind; that
is, he let 1t become part of his percep.
tons long enough for it to prove to
him that it was actually a possibility.
Then he half started with disgust that
he should be ever idly considering
such a thing over his last cigar for the
night, in his library. "Nol" And he
threw the cigar into the empty fire.
place and went to bed.
His bitterness for himself might
have worn away, but never his bitter
ness for Isabel. He took that thought
to bed with him-and it was true that
nothing George could do would ever
change this bitterness of Eugene. Only
Georges mother could have changed it.
And as Eugene fell asleep that
night, thinking thus bitterly Of
George, George in the hospital was
thinking Of Eugene. He thought Of Eu-
gene Morgan and of the Major; they
seemed to be the same person for
awhile, but he managed to disentangle
them and wen to understand why he
had confused them. Long ago his
grandfather had been the most strik-
ing figure Of success in the town: "As
rich as Major Anderson !" they used to
say. Now it was Eugene eff I had
Eugene Morgan's money" he would
hear the workmen ~day-dream:ng at the
chemical works: or, eff Eugene Nor
gan had hold of this place you'd see
things hum!" And the boarders at the
table dhote spoke of 'the Morgan
Piace" as an eighteenth-century
Frenchman spoke of Versailles. Like
his uncle, George had perceived that
he Morgan Place" was the new Am
person mansion. His reverie went back
% the palatial days Of the mansion, in |
lis boyhood, when he would gallon his |
oony up the driveway and order the
iarkey stablemen about, while they
.hooped and obeyed, and his grandfa-
her, observing from a window, would
augh and call out to him: "That's
light, George. Make those lazy ras
'als jump" He remembered his gay
'oung uncles, and how the town was
'ager concerning everything about
hem, and about himself. What q clean,
'retty town it had been! And in his
everie he saw like a pageant before
i'm the magnif1cence of the Amber
ons-its passing, and the passing of
he Ambersons themselves. They had
cen slowly engulfed without knowing
to prevent it, and almost without
moving what was happening to them.
he family lot, in the shabby old quar-
er, out at the cemetery, held most Of
lem now; and the name was swept
together from the new city. The
-mbersons had passed, and the new
eople would pass, and the new people
nat came after them, and the next
ones, and the next-and the
ext
He had begun to murmur, and the
ian on duty as night nurse for the
ard came and bent over him.
Did you want something's" /,
There's nothing in this family bust
ess," George told him conidentially.
Even George Washington is only
'mething in a book" (,
Eugene read a report Of the accident
the next mornings paper. He was
l the train, having just left for New
ork, on business, and with less leis- |
would probably have overlooked I
Ie obscure item: 1
LEGS BROKEN.
A. Minafer, an employee Of the Ak :
s company, was run down by
automobile yesterday at the corner Of
ennessee and Main and had both legs {
oxen. Minafer was to blame for the
cident, according to Patrolman f. A, {
TX, who witnessed the affair. The auto t
oplle was a small one driven by Herbert :
'ttieman OF zl73 Noble avenue, who stat :
tnat he was making less thar four /
lies an hour. Minafer is said to belong t
a family formerly of considerable prom !
ence In the city. He was taken to the .
ty hospital, where physicians stated /
ter that he was suffering from internal h
luries besides the fracture of his legs, q
It might recover. :
Eugene read the item twice, then q
ssed the paper upon the opposite seat a
his compartment. and sat looking q
it OF the window. His feeling toward o
eorgie was changed not a jot by his p
pity for Georges human pain