The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-09-10
CHAPTER Xxx.

When the great Anderson estate
went into court for settlement, Hthere
wasn't any, George Anderson said
that Is, when the settlement was con-
cluded there was no estate. He re-
prOached 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
gave them the opportunity of making
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, didn't ask them for res
titution on my own account, and at
least it will save you some trouble,
young George Never waste any time
writing to them; you mustn't count on
them"
81 DON'T" George said quietly. 81
don't count on anything"
"t0h, we'll not feel that things are
quite desperate" ANDERSON laughed,
but not with great cheerfulness.
We'll survive, Georgie-you will, es-
pecially. For my part I'm a little too
old and too accustomed to fall back
on somebody else for supplies to start
big fight with life; I'll be content
with just surviving, and can do 1t Oh
an eighteen-hundred-do con-
SulShip. An ex-cOngressman can al
ways be pretty sure of getting some
! such job. and l hear from Washing
ton the matters about settled So
much for me! But yOu-Of course
you've had poor training for making
your own way. but you're only boy
after all. and the stun of the old stock
Is In you. It'll come out and do some
sthifgs I'LL never forgive myself about
that deed 1t would have given you
something substantial to start with.
Stu, you havs a little tiny bit, and
you'll have. a, little tIny salary, too;
and Of course your Aunt Fanny's here,
and she's got; something you can fall
back on IL you get too pInched, until L
can begin to send you dribble now
and then" So
Georges '1ittle tiny bit" was six
hundred dollars which had come to
him from the sale Of HIS mothers fur
niture; and the little tiny salary,
was eight dollars a week which old
Frank Bronson was to pay him for
services as clerk and student-at-
law. George had accepted haughtily,
and thereby removed a burden from
his uncle's mind.
Anderson himself, however, had not
even "tlny blt;;" though he got his
consular appointment, and to take him
to Mis- post he found it necessary to
borrow two hundred Of his nephew's
six hundred dollars. at makes me
sick, George" he said. But I'd bet
ter get there and get that salary start
ed. OF course Eugene would do any
thing in the world, and the fact is he
wanted to, but 1 felt that-ah-under
the circumstances
"Neverp George exclaimed, growing
red. 81 can't imagine one of the FAM
lily" He paused, not finding 1t
necessary to explain that 'the fam
lily" shouldn't turn a man from the
door and then accept favors from him.
81 wish you'd take more"
ANDERSON declined. zone thing I'll
say for you, young George; you have
MT a stingy bone in your body. Thst's
the ANDERSON stock in you-and l Ike
ItF
He added something to this praise
of his nephew on the day he left for
Washington. He was not to return,
but to set forth from the capital on
the long journey to his post. George
went with him to the station, and
their farewell was IengtheQed BY the