Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-11-04

ana tney are going to alter peace.
think mems minds are going to be
changed in subtle ways because of au-
tOmobiles; just how, though, / could
hardly guess. Perhaps, ten or twenty
years from now, if we can see the in
ward change in men by that time. /
shouldn't be able to defend the gaso-
line engine, but would have to agree
with him that automobiles had no
business to be invented" He laughed
good-naturedly and. looking at his
watch, apologized for having an en-
gagement which made his departure
necessary when he would much prefer
to linger, and left them at the table.
Isabel turned wondering hurt eyes
upon her son. George, dear" she
said, What did you mean?"
Just what / said," he returned,
lighting one of the Majors cigars.
Isabers hand, pale and slender, up
on the tablecloth. touched one of the
fine silver candlesticks aimlessly; the
fingers were seen to tremble. "Oh. he
was hurt! ~ she murmured.
Il don't see why he should be-"
George said. 81 didn't say anything
about him. What made you think he
was hurt?"
Il knowshim ~ was all of her reply.
half-whispered.
The Major stared hard at George
from under his white eyebrows. You
didn't mean him. you say, George? l
suppose if we had a clergyman as a
guest here you'd expect him not to be
offended, and to understand that your
remarks were neither personal nor I'M
tactful if you said the church was a
nuisance and ought never to have been
invented. We seem to have a new
kind of young people these days. It's
new style of counting a pretty girl,
certainly, for young fellow to go de-
liberately out of his way to try and
make an enemy of her father by at
lacking his business! By Jove That's
new way to win a woman -
George flushed angrily and seemed
about to offer a retort, but held his
breath for moment; and then held
his peace. 1t was Isabel who respond
ed to the Major. "Oh, mol" she said.
Eugene would never be anybody's
enemy-he couldn't land last of all
Georges. I'm afraid he was hurt, but
l don't fear his not having understood
that George spoke without thinking of
what he was saying-I mean. without
realizing its bearing on Eugene"
well, WELL" said his grandfather
rising, st wasn't very successful lit.
tie dinner!'
Thereupon he offered his arm TO his
daughter. who took it fOndly, and they
t left the room. Isabel assuring him that
all his little dinners were pleasant,
and that this one was no exception.
George did not move, and Fanny
following the other two, came round
the table and paused close beside his
| chair; but George remained posed In
great mperturbabiity, cigar between
teeth. eyes upon ceiling, and paid nc
attention to her. Fanny waited until
the sound of Isabel's and the Majors
voices became inaudible in the hall
Then she said quickly, and in a low
voice so eager that it was unsteady:
George, you've struck just the
treatment to adopt; you're doing the
right thing!"
She hurried out, scurrying after the
others with a faint rustling of her
| black skirts, leaving George mystified
but injurious.
In truth, however, he was neither SO
comfortable nor so imperturbable as
he appeared. He felt some gratifica.
ton; he had done little to put the
man in his place-that man whose in.
| fiuence upon his daughter was precise
ly the same thing as a contemptuous
criticism of George ANDERSON Nina
| fer, and of George Anderson Nina
fer's ideals of life Lucy's going
away without word was intended
he supposed, as a bit of punishment
Well, he wasn't the sort of man that
people were allowed to punish; he
could demonstrate that to them
since they started i'll
Isabel came to Georges door that
night and, when she had kisesd him
goodnight. she remained in the open
doorway with her hand upon his
shoulder and her eyes thoughtfully
lowered, so that her wish to say some
thing more than goodnight was evil
dent. Not less obvious was her per-
plexity about the manner of saying
1t: and George divining her thought
amiahly made an opening for her.
well, old lady," he said, indulgent.
~. "you needn't look so worried.
won't be tactleSs with Morgan again.
After this I'll just Keep out of his
way"
"Dear," she said. 81 wish you'd tell
me something: Why don't you like Eu-
gene?"
''0h. like him well enough" George
returned with a short laugh. as he sat
down and began to unlace his shoes.
~"T like him well enough-in his place.
mo, dear" she said hurriedly. "rve
had feeling from the very first that
you didn't really like him-that you
really never liked him. / can't under
stand 1t, dear; don't see what can be
the matter"
"Nothing's the matter"
This easy declaration naturally
failed TO carry great weight and. Tsa-
bel went on, in her troubled voice: at
seems so queer. especially when you
feel as you do about his daughter"
At this. George stopped unlacing his
shoes abruptly. and sat up. How do
| feel about his daughter?" he de-
manded.
"Well. its seemed-as- if-as if
Isabel began timidly. at did seem
AT least. you haven't looked at any
other girl ever since they came here,
and-certainly you've seemed very
much interested in her. Certainly
you've been very great friends2"
well. what of that?"
| ITS only that I'm like your grand
father: can't see how yon could he
so much interested in a girl and-and