The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-09-13
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER zK-when his uncle went
abroad to GIL q consular post at 1S00 q
year azsd he himself became clerk IN old
Frank Bronson's law Office at eight dol
lars week, George was lonely, indeed
The prospect OF his future life with silly
Aunt Fanny is appalling, and he realizes
also, the fun measure OF his unthinking
cruelty to his mother.
CHAPTER xxI. -sseeine,- tine, tnaposs,h,,.
Alty of the two OF them living on his IS q
week, George goes to work for a biz
chemical company and is put IN charge
OF the nitro-glycerin department.
CHAPTER XXIIgrhe industrial growth
OF the town Completely wipes out the
ANDERSON Addition" the very name dis
neart Is broken. In At of abstraction
George is run over by an auto having
both his legs broken, and suffering inter-
nal injuries. He us taken ito the City
had lived herein this alley he had
fought with two boys at the same
time, and whipped them; in that front
yard me had been successfully leased
tnt Temporary insanity by Sunday
scaool class OF pinky little girls. On
that sagging porch 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, ION a dare, and in the
shabby, stOne-faced house behind the
fence he had gone to childrens par
ties, and, when he was 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
smoked sign proclaimed the place to
be ttsStag 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
tuot might tudt ne anu uhuy WCiC "
spend In the house which the Major
had forgotten to deed to Isabel. To
morrow they were to move out" and
George was to begin his work in Bron-
sons Office. He had not come to this
collapse without q 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
'ldeals Of life" which the world, in its
zDing, siderately fattens out 4tos
,1othIngness, the least likely to retain
q 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 at last that money,
IKE life, was like quicksilver in a
nest of cracks And his nephew had
the awakening experience of seeing
fhe great Anderson estste vanishing
into such nest-in twinkling; 1t
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 little, start,
and halted for a moment to stare.
This was the first time he had mo-
iced that the stone pillars, marking
the entrance, had been removed. Then
he realized that for a long time heshad
been conscious of a queerness about
this corner without being aware of
what made the difference. National
avenue met Anderson boulevard here
at an obtuse angle, and the removal Of
the pillars made the boulevard seem a
cross street of no overpowering i'm
Dortance-ce certainly 1t did not seem to
be q boulevard!
George walked by the Mansion 11ur-
-iedly, and came home to his mothers
house for the last time.
Emptiness was. there, too, ana the
closing of the door resounded through
pare rooms; for downstairs there was
40 furniture in the house except
kitchen table in the dining room, which
Fanny had kept "for dinner" she said,
-hough as she was tO~cook and serve |
hat meal herself George had his
doubts about her name for it. Upstairs, |
she had retained her own furniture,
ind George had been living in his
room, having sent everything
rom his own to the auction. Isabel's
.aelm was still ais it had been, but the
sdkniture would be moved with
Fannys to new quarters in the morn
ng. Fanny had made plans for her
lephew as well as herself; she had
found "three-room kitchenette apart
nent' in an apartment house where
several old friends of hers had estab-
ished elderly widows Of
once prominent" and other
.etired gentry. People used their own
for breakfast and lunch,
,ut there was a table-d'hote arrange
pent for dinner on the ground floor;
lpd after dinner bridge was played
III evening, an attraction powerful
With FANNY She had "made all the I