The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-11-29
CHAPTER XXI.

They found the job. II needed an
apprenticeship of only six weeks, dur
ing which period George was TO re-
ceive fifteen dollars Il week; after
that he would get twenty-eight. This
settled the apartment question, and
Fanny was presently established in a
greater contentment than she had
known for Il long time.
On Sunday mornings Fanny went TO
church and George took long walks.
He explored the new city, and found
it hideOus, especially in the early
spring, before the leaves Of the shade
trees were out.
One of his Sunday walks, that
spring, he made into a sour pilgrimage.
1t was misty morning of belated
snow sluSh, and suited him TO per
lection Of miSerableneSs. as he stood
before the great dripping department
store which now occupied the big plot
Of ground where once had stood both
the ANDERSON hotel and the Anderson
opera house. From there he drifted 10
the old Anderson block" but this was
only shadow. The old structure had
not been replaced, but a cavernOuS en-
tryway for trucks had been torn in its
front, and upon the cOrnice, where the
"Amberson block" there was a long
bill board sign: "DOOgan Storage"
To spare himself, he went out Ma
tiOnal avenue and saw the piles of
slush-covered wreckage where the
Mansion and his mothers house
had been, and where the Majors ill
fated five new" houses had stood; for
these were down, too, to make room
for the great tenement already shaped
in unending lines of foundation.
He turned away from the devastated
site, thinking bitterly that the only
Anderson mark still left upon the
| town was the name of the boulevard
Anderson boulevard But he had reck-
Oned without the city council of the
new order, and by an unpleasant coin
cidence, while the thought was still
in his mind, his eyes fell upon metal
oblong sign upon the lamp-pOst at the
! corner. There were two of these little
| signs upon the lamp-pOst, at an obtuse
angle TO each other, one TO give pass.
ersby the name of National avenue
the other TO acquaint them with Am
bersOn boulevard. But the one upon
which should have been stenciled
Anderson boulevard" exhibited the
words Tenth street"
George stared at it hard. Then he
walked quickly along the boulevard to
the next corner and looked at the little
sign there. tenth street"
II had begun TO rain, but George
stood unheeding. staring at the little
sign. ID them!" he said finally, and
turning up his coat collar, ploddeC
back through the soggy streets toward
! "home."
The unitarian impudence of the city
authorities put thought into his mind
A week earlier he had happened tC
stroll into the large parlor of the
apartment house, finding it empty, anC
on the comfortable he noticed a large
resi-bound, gilt-edged book, newly
printed, bearing the title: "a Civic
History" and beneath the title, the
rubric, Biographies of the 500 Mos
Prominent Citizens and Families il
the History of the City" He haC
glanced at it absenty. merely noticing
the title and subtitle. and wandered
out of the room, thinking Of Othel
things and feeling no curiosity about
the book. But he had thought of i
several times since with a faint, vague
uneasiness; and now when he entered
the lobby he walked directly into The
parlor where he had seen the book
The room was empty, as it always wa
on Sunday mornings. and the famboy
ant volume was still upon the table
evidently fixture as sort of loca
Almanach de Gotha, or Burke, for tn,
enlightenment Of tenants and bOarders
He turned to the index where th'
names of the five hundred Most PrOmi
nent Citizens and Families in the His