The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1919-08-09
CHAPTER H..

Georgie's education was domestic
process: tutors came 10 the house,
and those citizens who yearned for his
taking down often said "Just wait till
he has 10 go 10 public school then
hell get itw But at twelve George
was sent 10 a private school In the
fown. and there came from this small
mnd independent institution no report,
sor even rumor. OF Georges getting
sanything that he was thought to de-
serve; therefore the yearnIng still per-
sisted. though growing gaunt with
Needing upon itself.
The yearners were still yearnlng
when George at sixteen was sent
1way 10 great prep school,"
f<Now," they said brightly. hell get
sftl He'll find himself among boys just
las important in their homo town as he
lis, and they'll knock the stufiing out
lof him when he puts on his airs with
3theml Oh, but that would be worth
.somethlng to seer They were' mis-
!taken, IL appeared. for when George
lreturned few months later he still
sseemed to have the same stuffing. He
lhad been deported by the authorities.
fthe ofrense being stated as "insolence
knnd profanity" In fact, he had given
ffhe principal OF the school instruc-
stions almost Identical with those for
imerIy objected to by the Rev. Malloch
smith.
and those who counted upon II were
,embittered by his appearance upon
sthe downtown streets driving a dog
scart at criminal speed, making pc
sdestrians retreat from the crossings.
and behaving himself as II he 'owned
the earth"
: When Mr.. George Anderson Nina
Ter came home for the holidays at
Christmastide In his sophomore year,
probably no great change had taken
place inside him. but his exterior was
vlsibly altered. Nothing about him
encouraged any hope that he had re-
ceiyed his come-upance; on the con-
frary, the yearners for that stroke of
Justice must yearn even more Itch
1ngly the gilded youths manner had
become polite, but his politeness was
found hard to bear.
Cards were out for a ball in his
shonor and this pageant OF the ten
nntry was held In the ballroom OF the
ANDERSON mansion the night after his
arrival IL was, as Mrs. Henry Frank
lin Foster said OF Isabels wedding. "a
mig Amberson-style thing" All "old
citizens" recognized as gentry received
cards, and OF course so did their dane
tsng descendants.
The orchestra and the caterer were
brought from away, In the Anderson
imanner, though this was really GEES
lture-perhaps one more OF habit than
sof ostentation--for servitors OF gayety
las proficient as these importations
were nowadays to be found in the
town. II was the last OF the great
long-remembered dances that every
body talked about"-there were get
ting TO be so many people I'm town that
mo later than the next year there were
too many for everybody" 10 hear OF
seven such ball as the Ambersons'
George, whIte-gloved, with a garde-
MIA In his buttonhole. stood with his
mother and the Major, empowered I'm
the big red-and-gold drawing room
downstairs, TO receive" the guests !;
md, standing thus together, the trio
offered a picturesque example OF good
looks persistent through three gene
rations. The Major. his daughter and
his grandson were OF n type all Am
iberson TALL straight and regular, with
dark eyes, short noses. good chins ;
and the grandfather's expression, no
less than the grandson's. was one OF
.faintiy amused condescension. There
was difference. however. The grand
ascn's unlined young face had nothing
TO offer except this condescension
1.-The grandfather's had other things to
say. IL was n handsome, worldly old
face. conscious OF It's Importance, but
persuasive rather than arrogant, and
mot without tokens of sufferings with.
lsto0d. The Majors short white hair
Twas parted In the middle, like his
lgrandson's. and In all he stood ms
ibriskly equipped to the fashion as the
exquisite young George.
Isabel, standing between her father
and her son. caused vague amaze
'ment In the mind Of the latter. Her
age, Just under forty, was for George
n thought OF something as remote az
the moons OF Jupiter; he could not
possibly have conceived such an age
ever coming 10 be his own; Ave years
was the limit Of his thinking in time
Five years ago he had been child
not yet fourteen: and those Eve years
were an abyss. Five years hence hs
would be almost twenty-four: what
the girls he knew called zone OF this
Older men," lie could imagine himself
az twenty four. but beyond that nj.
powers staggered and refused IN,
task. He saw little essential differ