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CHAPTER Xxx.

When the great Anderson estate
went into court for settlement, "there
wasn't any," George Anderson said
that is, when the settlement was con-
cluded there was no estate. He re-
preached himself bitterly for not hav-
ing long ago discovered that his ia
Their had never given Isabel a deed to
her house. "And those pigs, Sydney
and Amelia" he added, for this was
another thing he was bitter about.
"They won't do anything. I'm sorry
1 gave them the opportunity of making
a polished refusal. The estate was bad
ly crippled. even before they took out
their third and the third they took
was the only good Part of the rotten
apple. Well, I didn't ask them for res
titution on my own account, and ut
least it will save you some trouble,
young George. Never waste any time
writing to them; you mustn't count on
them"
II DON'T" George said quietly. "
don't count on anything"
"Oh, we'll not feel that things are
quite Desperate" Anderson laughed.
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that his health would suffer, and he
had been downtown only in a closed
carriage. he had not realized the
great change.
The streets were thunderous, a vast
energy heaved under the universal
coating of dinginess. George walked
through the begrimed crowds of hur-
rying strangers and saw no face that
he remembered. Great numbers of
faces were even Of a kind he did not
remember ever to have seen; they
were partly like the old type that
his boyhood knew, and partly like
types he knew abroad. He saw Ger
man eyes with American wrinkles at
their corners; he saw Irish eyes and
Neapolitan eyes. Roman eyes, Tuscan
eyes, eyes of Lombardy, of Savoy,
Hungarian eyes, Balkan eyes, Scandi-
navian eyes-all with a queer Ameri-
can look in them. He saw Jews who
were no longer German or Russian or
Polish Jews. All the people we're soil
ed by the smoke-mist through which
they hurried, under the heavy sky that
hung close upon the new skyscrapers,
and nearly all seemed. harried by
something impending, though here and
there a woman with bundles would be
laughing to a companion about some
adventure of the department store, or
perhaps an escape from the charging
traffic of the streets-and not infre-
quently a girl, or a free-and-easy
young matron, found time to throw an
encouraging look to George.
He took no note of these, and, leav-
ing the crowded sidewalks, turned
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~ Did the Right Thing, Tell YOU"
I did the only right thing! You think
I was wrong"
"Im not saying So" she said.
"You did at the timer he cried.
"You said enough then, I think. Well,
what have you to say now, If you're
81 sure I was wrong?"
"Nothing, George"
"It's only because you're afraid to! !"
he said, and he went on with q sudden
bitter divination: "You're reproach-
ing yourself with what you had to do
with all that; and you're trying to
make up for it by doing and saying
what you think mother would want
you to, and you think I couldn't stand
it IL / got to thinking I might have
done differently. oh, 1 know! That's
exactly what's In your mind: you do
think I was wrong! So does Uncle
George. I challenged him about 1t
the other day. and he answered just
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CHAPTER xIx-contlnued.


A month after her death he walked
abruptly into Fanny's room, one night
and found her at her desk, eagerly
adding columns of figures with which
she had covered several sheets Of pa
per.
George! You startled me-"
II beg your pardon for not knock
Ing" he said huskily. II didn't think
She turned in her chair and looked
at him solicitously. "Sit down, George,
won't you?"
=. "No. I just wanted"
II could hear you walking up and
down in your room," said Fanny. "You
were doing it ever since dinner, and
1t seems to me you're at it almost
every evening. I don't believe it's good
for you-and 1 know it would worry
your mother terribly If She" Fan
ny hesitated.
"See here" George said, breathing
fast. Il want to tell you once more that
what I did was right. How could 1
have done anything else but what, I
did do?"
. "Oh, I don't pretend to judge" Fan
ny said soothingly, for his voice and
gesture both partook of wildness. II
know you think you did, George"
""Think I did!" he echoed violent
ly. my God in heaven!" And he
began to walk up and down the floor.
What else was there to do? What
choice did l have? Was there n
other way Of stopping the talk?" He
stopped, close in front of her, gestic-
ulating. his voice harsh and loud:
"Was there any other way on earth
of protecting her from the talk?"
Miss Fanny looked away. ut died
down before long, I think" she said
n%ervously.
"That shows I was right, doesn't it?"
he cried. IF 1 hadn't acted as I did,
that %slanderous old Johnson woman
would have kept on with her ISLANDERS
shed still be"
NO." Fanny interrupted. "She's
dead. She dropped dead with apoplexy
one day about six weeks after you
left. I didn't mention it in my let
tiers because I didn't want-I
thought"
swell, the other people would have
Kept on, then. They'd have"
Ct" don't know" said Fanny, still
averting her tropbled eyes. "Things.
are so changed hae, George! The 9th
er people you speak of-one hardly
knows what's become Of them. OF
course not a great many were doing
the talking, and they-well, some of
them are dead, and some might as
well be-you never see them any linioffss
and the rest, whoever they were, are
probably so mixed in with the crowds
OF new people that seem never even to
nave heard Of us-and I'm sure we
certainly never heard of them-and
people seem to forget things so soon
they seem to forget anything. You
imagine how things have changed
oeo e-se gulped painfully before he
could speak. "You-you e to sit
there and tell me that If I'd just let
go on Ohw He swung away,
walking the floor again. II tell you
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"There Have Been Times When 4
Thought You Ought to Be Hanged"

north into National avenue, and pres
emily reached the qufeter but no less
begrimed region of smaller shops and
Old-fashionef houses. Those latter had
been the homes Of his boyhood play
mates, old friends of his g%randfather
had lived herein this alley he had
fought with two boys at the same
time, and whipped them; in that front
yard he had been successfully teaseti
into temporary insanity by a Sunday
school class Of ptnky little girls. On
that sagging porch; a laughing woman
had fed him and other boys with
doughnuts and gingerbread; yonder he
saw the staggered relics Of the iron
picket fence he had made his white
pony jump, on a dare; and in the
shabby, stone-faced house behind the
fence he had gone to. children's par
ties, and, when he was a little older
he had danced there often, and fallen
In love with Mary Sharon, and kissed
her, apparently by force. under the
stairs In the hall. The double front
DOORS Of meaninglessly carved walnut,
once SO glossily vanished, had been
painted smoke gray, but the smoke
CRIME showed repulsively,, even on the
smoke gray; and over the. doors q
smoked sign proclaimed the place to
be a "Ssag hotel"
This was the last walk home' he
was ever to take by the route he was
now following: up National avenue to
Anderson addition and the two big
old houses at the foot Of Anderson
boulevard; for tonight would be the
last night that he and Fanny were to
spend in the house which the Major
had forgotten to deed to Isabel. To
morrow they were to amove out" and
George was to begin his work in Bron-
sons office. He had not come to this
collapse without a fierce struggle-but
the struggle was inward, and the roll
ing world was not agitated by it,
and rolled calmly on. For of all the
ideals Of life" which the world, in its
rolling, inconsiderately fiattens out to
nothingness, the least likely to retain
a profile is that ideal which depends
upon inheriting money. George Am
berson, in spite of his record of fail
ures in business, had spoken shrewdly
when he realized ut last that money,
like life, was "like quicksilver in a
nest of cracks" And his nephew had
the awakening experience of seeing
the great Anderson estate vanishing
into such q nest-in a twinkling; it
seemed, now that it was indeed so ut
terly vanished.
On this last homeward walk Of his,
when George reached the entrance to
Anderson addition-that is, when he
came to where the entrance had for
merly been-he gave a little start,
and halted for a moment to stare.
This was the first time he had no.
ticed that the stone pillars, marking
the entrance, had been removed. Then
he realized that for a long time he had
been conscious Of a queerness about
this corner without being aware Of
what made the difference. National
New-York tribune., 1919-03-27

dcmarcation laid down in an earlier
ultimatum should not be regarded as the
political frontier Of Hungary. In ac-
cordance with the new decision, it is
added, there will be established neu-
trail zone for the sole purpose of pre-
venting collisions between Hungarian
and Rumanian troops.
Colonel Vix, head of the French mis-
sion in Budapest, has been wounded and
taken prisoner by forces of the new
Hungarian government, according to a
report received i'm Prague and trans
mitted here. Major Freeman, Of the
British army, it is added, succeeded in
making his escape from Budapest.
The commander of the French troops
in Budapest, according to wireless
dispatch from the Hungarian capital,
denies the report that his soldiers have
been dsarmed by the Communists.
Military Missions Escape
All the members of the Allied mill
tary missions, except one American Of
ficer, have left Budapest, Vienna dis
patch to the "Abendpost," of Berlin,
says.
The "Reichpost," of Vienna. prints a
dispatch from Budapest that Allied
troops occupying Arad and Szegedin,
on the Maros and Thesis rivers rcspec-
lively, have been withdrawn.
A Pressburg report received in Ber-
lin says that martial law has been de-
clared throughout Czecho- Slovakia as a
result Of events in Hungary.
The French Foreign Office has been
advised that one of the first acts of the
new Hungarian government was to re-
lease the Russian Red Cross delegation
that mad been imprisoned in Budapest
because 1t had been circulating Boil
shcvik propagandst matter.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-27
Red Revolt in
.HungaryAlarn,s
Peace ENJOYS
Continued from page 1
Of peace until at least the preliminary
Of peace Is made.
Bolshevism Is ON Advance;
Allied Frontiers Menaced

In addition, Bolshevism is on the ad-
vance. The Russian army in three
mighty campaigns was not able to pass
the Carpathians and reach the Danube,
but Budapest has accepted the leader
ship of Trotzky and Lenine little more
than year after their power in Rus
sia became supreme. Four months ago
the Allied powers abandoned the idea
Of fighting Bolshevism because they
realized that neither their armies nor
their peoples would consent to a new
campaign and further blood sacrifice,
but to-day these leaders are asking
themselves whether their peoples will
stand another war, not in Russia, but
on their own frontiers, if Bolshevism
shall reach those frontiers. They are
asking themselves whether millions of
men who suffered agonics incident to
the winning of victory will be willing
to make new sacrifices with the con-
sciousness that the fruits of victory
have been thrown away by the in
capacity of the statesman at Paris.
The opposition in America is ac-
customed to hold Mr.. Wilson primarily
and mainly responsible for the par
alysis of Europe, but that is not half
the story. If Mr.. Lloyd George has
consented that the British policy at
Paris should be in the main rubber
stamp for the American President, it is
because Mr.. Lloyd George is seeking
to serve his own political necessities
and endeavoring to borrow the prestige
of Mr.. Wilson in Europe to that end
If Monsieur Clcmenceau is yielding
again and again to the imperative in
sistance of Mr.. Wilson upon policies
and upon procedures in which he does
not believe, it is because Monsieur
Clemenceau feels incapable of facing
the situation in France should Mr..
Wilson pass into the hands of the
radical opposition.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-27

the moment when news arrived that
Napoleon had returned from Elba. Con-
ceivably the news of advancing Boil
shevism will act on the Paris confer
ence as the bad news of the landing of
the great Emperor, but more and more
one becomes satisfied here in Paris
that only some outside event can pro-
duce decision within the council. When
the Paris conference met, Bolshevism
was still east OF the Dnieper; to-day
it is west of the Danube. Will the ar
rival at the Danube suffice, or will the
conference of Paris postpone it's de-
cision until Trotsky and Lenine ap-
proach the 1sonzo and the Rhine :?
These are questions frequently asked
Or shall we expect within the next few
weeks the return of the German En-
peror to Berlin and his rencarna-
tion as the champion of order against
Bolshevism, appealing to the terror
and WEAKNESS Of the west?
New-York tribune., 1919-03-27
Germans See
Salvation i'm
Hungary's Act
Continued from page 1

Hungary's rulers in throwing up the
sponge and confronting the Entente
with Bolsheviki regime.
There is little doubt that the deter
plunge into similarly desperate ad
venture, though the Developments at
Budapest raise the hope here of pro-
duclng so powerful and intimidating
an effect upon the Entente as to snare
germany the necessity of self-sacrifce
IN any case, Gcrmany's rulers do NOT
intend to act in crude and vulgar
fashion. and if they decide upon The
trlck OF Bolshcvism they will scarcely
surrender their rens into the hands Of
".honcst' Bolshevists, but will perform
IL themselves in organized, militarist.
Prussian style
All Factions Rejoice
That IIungary's step is hailed hero
with satisfaction and sympathy pocs
without saying. All agree on this
point. from the Pan Germans to the
Spartacldes. The hope is expressed
that Hungary's action will powerfully
influence the onditions in Poland and
the Balkans and possibly will be
initiated by the hard pressed govern.
mcnt Of the Ukraine.
Berlin sees a ray Of hope in Hun
gary's coup. And the fate of hopeless
and rcpentont hungary, which in the
closing months. of the war formed Inc
centre of opposition in tho old Dual
Monarchy TO the influence of Berlin
at Vienna, furnishes the Pan Ccrmans
with powerful argument against dis.
armament and for moral regeneration
meaning the militarist regeneration OF
Germany.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-27
Allied Policy Resembles
Fatal Tactics of Romans

In any event, two facts stand out
with growing impressiveness: one is
the still unchecked advance OF Boil
shevism and the other, the growing
paralysis Of the conference of peace.
1T still is punctuating it's sentences,
while Bolshevism is eating up the
Eastern peoples, as one eats an arti-
choke, leaf by leaf.
But to-day, for the first time, an ap-
preclation of the truth is brought alike
by the news from Budapest, Odessa
and Cairo, and it is echoed by the
further news which comes from War
saw, Bucharest and Prague. A year
ago the world was talking of the sue
cess OF the Germans in breaking the
Western front of the Allies. To-day
Bolshevism has broken the Eastern
front, absorbed the Ukraine, separated
Poland from Rumania. A year ago,
when our lines broke, we adopted unity
Of command. Shall we now? The All
lied policy against Bolshevism has
so far resembled the policy of the
last days. No longer capable of meet
ing the enemy in his own country. the
CONAN retired from one barrier to
another, until in his last ditch he
persisted, and his empire with him.
Western civilization certainly is not
incapable of action, but so fer has been
incapable of achieving policy. 1t in
vited the Bolsheviki to Prnkipo eight
weeks ago, and by way of answering
the invitation, the Bolsheviki have
come, not to Prinkipo, but to Budapest.
The conference of peace continues to
deliberate, but while it seeks to make
an appropriate ending to the recent
war, 1T finds itself confronted with a
new war. Clcmenceau uspd IN rcm;pd
us, day by day, that the Germans were
at Noyon. Who will remind him and
his associates now that the Bolshcvists
are at Budapest?
Copyright 1919, by the Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicatej
New-York tribune., 1919-03-27

ment, delivered in the Chamber Of
Deputies yesterday afternoon.
"The right bank Of the Rhine" con-
tinued the Dcput5- must serve no
more as a base for Prussian aggrcs-
sions against France. We ask this in
dispensable minimum and it is our
right to exact it.
"The silence of the government and
its other methods have eliminated in
the maximum of unrest in the country
and the maximum of anarchy outside
of it. Germany begins to raise her
head. 1t was with anguish we learned
that France had not cxacted the dis
armament Of Germany and that it was
England that was obliged to seek to
disarm Germany for the benefit Of
France"
The Deputy declared that the Rus
sian policy of the French government
WAS weak and uncertain. adding:
1t is necessary to be either for or
against the Bolsheviki.'
he complained also that the voice Of
France was not heard sufficiently in
the concert Of nations"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-27

and vague, it shows little Improvement
in the situation. The extremists ap-
parently have extended their opera
tions into neighboring towns, while the
Budapest Soviet has further strength
ened its authority.
Former Premier Wekerle has been
arrested by the revolutionary govern
ment, together with scores of other Of
ficals of the old government. DR..
Wekerle is accused of advocating meas
ures that would aid him to dispose on
favorable terms of his heavily mort
gagged estates.
The Communist government has pro-
claimed martial law and has begun the
organization Of considerable army.
BY establishing a food barrier the AL
lies intend to fight the revolutionary
movement, the British having informed
Vienna that further supplies will be
rushed if the authorities guarantee the
preservation of law and order. They
seek by this method to localize the
trouble and prevent its spread into
Rumania and Serbia, where the con-
ditions are bad.
Paris it is stated, has studied the
situation both from military and eco
nomic angles, and orders have been is
sued for immediate execution. With
Lenlne ready to support any movement
which will further the spread of Boil
shevism and with the German mill
tarists only too anxious to cooperate
in any plan that will embarrass the AL
lies. the Paris delegates are naturally
driving hard to reach settlement be-
fore anarchy sweeps over the whole of
Central Europe.
The Bolshevik movement has become
so strong in military sense that there
is imminent danger of it's crossing the
Russian border. Even though the COM
munications arc bad the Allied leaders
are inclined to regard the develop
ments in Hungary much more seri-
ously than the Spartacide outbreaks
The majority of the Germans and
Magyars fear Bolshevism as much as
the Allies, because pure Bolshevism
means ruination of property, and
there is always the possibility of
Trotzky's army beginning a formidable
offensive. This would not displease
many Germans who are bent on re-
Vengc.
Rather than submit to humilating
terms. these Germans are willing to
let Bolshevism sweep westward. There
are Germans, on the other hand, who
see possibility Of turning the situa-
ton to their advantage by acting as
buffers against Bolshevism and, claim
ing as reward, more moderate treat
mcnt by the Allies
New-York tribune., 1919-03-27
Cermuny Names Military
Enjoys to Peace Parley

RERLIN, March 26.---(By the As
sociated Press) Tho German
military representation TO tho peace
conference will be made up as fol-
lows;
General Won Hammerstein, hitherto
Military President OF the Armisticc
Commission; Major Won Boeck, for
mcr general staff officer in the ex-
Crown Princes army group; Lieu
tenant Colonel Won Aylander, of the
Bavarian general staff; Major Boet-
tcher, Of the Saxon general staff, and
Captain Geyer, of Wurttemburg.
The mission will be under the con-
troll of General Won Wrisberg, Of
the Prussian War Ministry.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-27
ing action similar to that of tho Ea.

ing action similar to that Of the Ka-
rolyi government in Hungary
it would seem. said one authority
to-day, that Germany staged the Bub
shcvil triumph in Hungary Tor the
purpose of observing its effect upon
the peace conference.
1T is considered here that the events
in Hungary arc inseparably connectc'
with the Russian question, and that the
latter is now forcibly pressing itse.
upon the peace conference.
In Russian circles here depression
was occasoned by the Bolshcyik sue
cess III Hungary. II will have the e.
feet, it was asserted, of encouraging
the Bolshevik regime in Russia and Of
further intrcnching it in the minds Of
its adherents, while tending TO dis
courage the opponents of Bolshcgisn
in Russia.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-27

that action can be taken only upon
unanimous vote OF the Executive Coun-
ell and the body Of delegatos, thus in
suring that the British Empire has no
voting predominance in tho league,
but obviously such an amendment will
impair the value Of league whose
strength is primarily designed to be
moral.
Feeling is now running very high
here, and in many European and some
American quarters 1t is felt that the
American delegation will perpetrate an
incalculable injustice in further i'm
posing its own views in the settlement
of European affairs.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-27
Blanket Treaty Plan
Raises Problem, for
american, Experts

PARIS, March 26 (By The Associ-
atcd Press).-The technical experts Of
the American peace delegation, in con-
sultation with experts of other dele
cations, have been considering a pos
sible method for carrying out prof
cct brought forward yesterday to in
clude all four enemy powers in one
peace treaty.
The fact that the United States
never was at war with Turkey and
bulgaria complicates the matter, but
the opinion of the American experts
is tnat this IS not insurmountablc and
chat 1T is feasible for the United States
10 sign such quadruple treaty with
an explanatory statement that the
United States accepts only such nor-
tions of the treaty as directly affect Il
Preparatory to the execution of the
plan without delay, in case it should
ne adopted, the commissions on repar-
atlons and boundaries are to reduce
10 form as quickly as possible ali data
they have collected bearing on Tho
financial and economical ability Of
turkey and Bulgaria, and of what
remains of Austria Hungary. to maet
the charges they must pay, as we'll as
the new boundaries they must accent
IN order to recognize the right of self.
determination.
The movement for single treaty
with all the four powers probable
grows out OF Premier Orlando's strons
opposition TO such omission in the first
interests. way
should the plan be adopted, it is cx,
pected the four treaties could be linked
'egetner and completed by May 1.
Is was learned tonight that the gov
ernment had opened an inquiry into
me manner in which the French press
nau oeen enabled to keep so closely in
Council. supreme
New-York tribune., 1919-03-27
Will Conference Wait
Till Reds Reach Rhine?

It is fact that in the presence of
Mr.. Wilson, European craftsmanship
has abdicated, but it is equally true
that in no small measure Mr.. Wilson
has been forced into dictatorship by
his associates. He has been asked to
decide the questions between the Euro
pean nations which had no concern for
America. SO he has arrived at his
position here because he alone from
the outset has had clear and definite
views of the objective which he sought.
and that objective was his league of
nations.
AS it stands now the Paris confer
ence has reached a deadlock wholly
comparable with the deadlock which
existed in the Congress of Vienna at