Cleveland County herald., 1919-12-25

| case anyCnlng Snoul0 go wrong.
 Fanny deceived him. In the im- possible event of anything going wrong" she would have enough left to Hive on," she declared, and laughed ! eXcitedly, for she was having the best | time that had come to her since Will 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 l 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.
 eve seem to be partners, all right" he laughed. "Now let's go ahead and | be milIionaires before Isabel and young George come home.''
 "When they come home" she echoed sorrowfully-and it was a | phrase which found an eyasive echo ill Isabers 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. ''If they ever do come home !" 
 Anderson went over the next sum- mer and joined his sister and nephew in Paris, where they were living. lisa bel does want to come home," he told Fanny graveiy on tine day of his re- | turn in October. "She's wanted to for a 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 person spoke in a casual tone of his sister and her son.
 q found Isabel as well as usual" he said, "only I'm afraid 'as usual isn't particularly we'll. 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 a Catholic and is said to give great sums to charity and to go about with the gentry in consequence, but Syd- ney's ailing and lives in a wheel chair most of the time. It 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 have concluded his narrative Eugene spoke out of the shadow beyond a heavily shaded lamp: What do you mean by that?" he asked quietly.
 'Oh, she's cheerful enough" said Anderson, still not looking at either his young hostess or her father. "At least" he said, "sne manages to seem so. I'm afraid she hasn't been really well for several years. Of course she makes nothing Of it, but it seemed rather serious to me when ! noticed she had to stop and rest twice to get up one short flight of stairs in their two-foor apartment. I told her I thought she ought to make George let her come home."
 "Iet herT" Eugene repeated in low voice. 'Does she want to-"
 ''She doesn't urge it. George seems to like the life therein his grand, gloomy and peculiar way; and of course she'll never change about be- ing proud of him and all that-he's quite a swell. But in spite of anything she said, rather than because, l know she does indeed want to come. She'd like to be with father, of course; and I think she'S-well, she intimated one day that she feared it might even hap pen that she wouldn't get to see him again. At the time I thought she re- ferred to his age and feebleness, but on the boat coming home l remem- bered the little look of wistfuiness, yet of resignation. with which she said it, and it struck me all at once that I'd been mistaken: saw she was really thinking of her own state Of health."
 "I sec" Eugene said, his voice even lower than it had been before. And you say he won't let her come home? Anderson laughed, but still contin- ued to be interested in his cigar. '0h, I don't think he uses force! He's very gentle with her. I doubt if the sub iect is mentioned between them, and yet--and yet, knowing my interesting nephew as you do, wouldn't you think that was about the way to put it?' Knowing him as I do-yes," said