Cleveland County herald., 1919-11-27

which I have chosen for the regulation of my own conduct in life. Suppose some friend of mine has relative with ideals directly the opposite of mine, and my friend believes more in the relatives ideals than in mine: Do you think I ought to give up my own just to please a person who's taken up ideals that I really despise?'
 "No, dear; of course people can't give up their ideals; but l don't see what this has to do with dear little Lucy and"
 q didn't say it had anything to do with them," he interrupted. "I was merely putting a case to show how person would be justified in being friend of one member of family and feeling anything but friendly toward another. I don't say, though, that l feel unfriendly to MT. Morgan. l don't say that I feel friendly to him, and don't say that 1 feel unfriendly; but if you really think that I was rude to him tonight"
 "Just thoughtless, dear. You didn't see that what you said tonight"
 "Well, I'll not say anything of that sort again where he can hear it. There, isn't that enough?' But, George" she said earnestly, you would like him, if you'd just let yourself. You say you don't dislike him. Why don't you like hi1r? I can't O4 oil iCi bot don't"
 ''There, there!" he said. 'It's all right, and you toddle along."
 "But, George"
 "Now, now! really do want to get into bed. Goodnight, old lady"
 "But, George, dear"
 'I'm going to bed, old lady; so good night"
 Thus the interview closed perforee. She kissed him again before going slowly to her own room, her perplex- ity evidently not dispersed; but the subject was not renewed between them the next day or subsequently,. Nor did Fanny make any allusiOn to the cryptic appreciation she had bestowed upon her nephew after the Majors mot very successful little dinner" though she. annoyed George by looking at him oftener and longer than he cared to be looked at by an aunt
 He successfully avoided contact with Lucy's father, though Eugene came frequently to the house, and spent several evenings with Isabel and Fanny; and sometimes persuaded them and the Major to go for an afternoons motoring He did not, however, come again to the Majors Sunday evening dinner even when George Anderson returned. Sunday evening was the time, he explained, for going over the weeks work with his factory man. agers.
 
 When Lucy came home the autumn was far enough advanced to smell of burning leaves, and for the annual editorials, in the papers, on the purple haze, the golden branches, the ruddy fruit, and the pleasure of long tramps in the brown forest. George had not AASetAu OI tiCL oIIlNdi, anu uC l1Cl IGI, on the afternoon following that event, at the Sharons', where he had gone in the secret hope that he might hear something about her. Jamie Sharon had just begun to tell him that she heard Lucy was expected home soon after having "a perfectly gorgeous which George re- ceived with no responsive enthusiasm when Lucy came demurely in, proper little autumn figure in green and brown.
 Her cheeks were flushed and her dark eyes were bright indeed; evil dences, as George supposed, of the excitement incidental to the perfectly gorgeous time just concluded; though Jamie and Mary Sharon both thought they were the effect of Lucy's having seen Georges runabout in front of the house as she came in. George took on color, himself as he rose and nodded indifferently; and the hot suffusion to which he became subject extended It's area to include his neck and ears. Nothing could have made him much more indignant than his consciousness of these symptoms of the icy indiffer- ence which it was his purpose not only to show but to feel.
 She kissed her cousins, gave George her hand said How d'you do,' and took chair beside Jamie with a com posture which augmented Georges in- dignation.
 How d'you do?" he said. "I trust that ah-I trust-I do trust"
 He stopped, for it seemed to him that the word trust" sounded idiotic l Then, to cover his awkwardness, he 1 coughed, and even to his own rosy ears his cough was ostentatiously a false one. Lucy sat silent and the I two Sharon girls leaned forward, star ing at him with strained eyes, their | lips tightly compressed; and both were | but too easily diagnosed as subject to an agitation which threatened their l Self-cOntrOl He began again