The Glenwood post., 1919-12-13
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tess.ns with the most psssanistic prsdio-
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Hoeopoii.sd Lusy Morgan % = stranger % and
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e sIsss 4 as.fsE', Il: :ad
walton.
nlrsr Of f.sbei's and they had BEEN @ en- en-
9AGed whom Isabel threw him over be-
esuss 2f some youthful indiscretion and
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i, CHAPTER W.-whils driving with
. H. bsyond control. And the animal
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CHAPTER vI.-aeorgs reveals intense
0slfke Of Morgan, whom hs suspects Of
1anGaa designs on his uncle or grand
1ssnsr: Hi, aunt: Fanny Hin.fer. to BE
oca4A.r T.. XII5tASn: sn s,. y.ssSn %
sssef: and Sis fathsr:s fsilin1 me- hs.ith. &
e hsurs. dsorss Il eptnisac a to
CHAPTER n.-Hearing rumors con-
R.d Snnsadeoras nss ur.ss phsf To-
na1e. but Lucy refuses.
CHAPTER x.--Georse becomes annoyed
e sos.iH Ehich comets nn ns his nSts',s mStfsr,
Ahsdc but somewhat bewildering.
"a. ant .e sailing before long, =
bear. to live in Florence. Father said
be couldn't stand the constant per
suading-rm afraid the word he used
was 'nagging.' Ican't understand peo.
pie behaving like that. George says
tAey may be Ambersons, but they're
vulgari I'm afraid almost agree with
him. At least, I think they were I'M.
considerate.
I'VE plan to stay six weeks II the
place agrees with him. It does really
seem to already He's Just called in
tho door to say he's waiting. Don't
smoke too much. darling boy.
Devotedly. your mother.
ISABEL"
But she did not keep her husband
thers for the six weeks she ANTICIPATED.
She did not keep him anywhere that
long. Three weeks after writing this
letter. she telegraphed suddenly to
George that they were leaving for
heme at once: and four days later.
when he and q friend came whistling
Into his study. from lunch at the club.
he found another telegram upon his
dsak.
he read 1t twice before hs comprs-
hsalsd lts import.
Papa left ~ at ten this morning.
dearest.
NoTHNR."
The friend saw the change in his
faeo. Not bad newsf
0eorge lifted utterly dumfounded
eyes from the yellow paper.
ny father" he said weakly. "Shs
says-she says he's dead. I've rot to
70 home"
His Uncle George and the
A81oe met him at the station when he
arfivsdNthe hrst time the Major had
ever come to meet his grandson. The
old gentieman sat in his closed car
rags (which still needed paint) at the
entrance to the station, but he got out
and advanced to grasp Georges hand
trsmuiously. when the latter appeared
Poor fellow r. he said, and patted him
repeatedly upon the shoulder. 'Poor
felloWi Poor Georgiel"
George noticed that the Majors
tremulousness did not disappear, AZ
they drove up the street, and that he
seemed much feebler than during the
summer. Principally. however, George
was concerned with his own emotion,
or rather. with his lack Of emotion;
and the anxious sympathy Of his grand
father and his uncle made him feed
hypOcritical. He was not grief-strick-
en-; but he felt that he ought to be,
and. with a secret shame. concealed
his callousness beneath an affectation
Of solemnity.
But when he was taken into the
room where lay what was left Of Will
bur Mlnafer. George had no longer to
pretend; his grief was sufficient. It
needed only the sight Of that forever
inert semblance Of the quiet man who
had been always so quiet q part Of his
sons life-so quiet a part that George
had seldom been consciously aware
that his father was indeed n part Of
a.