Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-12-02
II thought I'd ask Eugene'S

dONlce.
81 wish you would" said Fanny. HE
probably knows exactly how much
profit there would be in this"
Eugene's advice was to Ego Slows"
he thought electric lights for automo-
biles were "coming-some day." but
could be overcome. Altogether he was
discouraging, but by this time his two
friends "had the fever as thoroughly
as old Frank Bronson himself had it ;
for they had been with Bronson to see
the light working beautifully in a ma
chine shop. "Perfect!" Fanny cried.
sand if it worked in the shop it's
bound to work any place else, isn't
it?"
Eugene would not agree it was
bound to"-yet, being pressed, was
driven to admit that sit might" and
retiring from what was developing In
to an oratoricaI contest, repeated
warning about not putting too much
into it."
George Anderson ais laid stress on
CdullOn lIOQSA INT NAoJOA AoN
financed him" again, and he was go
ing in" "You must be careful to leave
yourself margin of safety Fanny"
he said. You must be careful to leave
yourself enough to fall back on, in
case anything should go wrong"
Fanny deceived him. In the i'm
possible event of anything going
wrong" she would have enough left
to ''live on" she declared, and laughed
excitedly, for she was having the best
time that had come TO her since VIII
bur's death. Like so many women for
whom money has always been pro-
vided without their understanding
how, she was prepared to be a thor
ough and irresponsible plunger.
Anderson, in his wearier way,
shared her excitement, and in the
winter, when the exploiting company
had been formed, and he brought
Fanny her Importantly engraved
shares of stock, he reverted to his pre-
diction of possibilities, made when
they first spoke of the new light.
"We seem to be partners, all right"
he laughed. "Now let's go ahead and
be millionaires before Isabel and young
George come home"
"When they come homer she
echoed sorrowfully-and it was a
phrase which found "a evasive echo
in Isabel's letters. In these letters
Isabel was always planning pleasant
things that she and Fanny and the
Major and George and brother
George" would do-when she and her
son came home. They'll find things
pretty changed, I'm afraid" Fanny
said. eff they ever do come home !"
mer and joined his sister and nephew
in Paris, where they were living. lisa
bel does want to come home," he told
Fanny gravely on the day of his re-
turn in October. "She's wanted to for
long while-and she ought to come
while she can stand the journey"
And he amplified this statement, leav-
ing Fanny looking startled and solemn
when Lucy came by to drive him out
to dinner at the new house Eugene
had just completed.
He was loud in praise of the house
after Eugene arrived, and gave them
no account of his journey until they
had retired from the dinner table to
Eugene's library, a gray and shadowy
room, where their coffee was brought.
Then, equipped with a cigar, which
seemed to occupy his attention, Am
berson spoke in a casual tone of his
sister and her son.
II found Isabel as well as usual"
he said, ''only I'm afraid as usual
isn't particularly well. Sydney and
Amelia had been up to Paris in the
spring, but she hadn't seen them.
Somebody told her they were there,
it seems. They'd left Florence and
were living in Rome; Amelia's become
Catholic and is said to give great
sums to charity and to go about with
the gentry in consequence, but sgd
ney's ailing and lives in wheel chair
most of the time. 1t struck me Isabel
| ought TO be doing the same thing"
He paused, bestowing minute care
upon the removal OF the little band
from his cigar: and as he seemed to