Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-12-12

Oub NOT Win great CueeF1uiueSSs
''We1l survive, Georgie-you win, es-
pecially. For my part I'm a little too
old and too accustomed to fell back
on somebody else for supplies to start
a big fight with life; I'll be content
with just surviving, and can do it ON
an eighteen-hundred-dol con-
sulship. An ex-congreSsman can al
ways be pretty sure of getting some
such job, and l hear from Washing
ton the matters about settled. So
much for mel But you-of course
you've had poor training for making
your own way, but you're only boy
after all, and the stuff of the old stock
is in you. TIN come out and do some
thing. I'll never forgive myself about
that deed; II would have given you
something substantial to start with.
Still, you have a little tiny bit, and
you'll have little tiny salary, too;
and OF course your Aunt Fanny's here,
and she's got something Won can fail
] back on If you get too pinched, until
can begin to send you a dribble now
and then"
Georges "little tiny bit" was six
hundred dollars which had come TO
| him from the sale of his mothers fur
niture; and the little tiny salary"
was eight dollars a week which old
| Frank Bronson was to pay him for
! services as a clerk and student-at-
law. George had accepted haughtily,
end thereby removed a burden from
his Uncle's mind.
ANDERSON himself, however, had not
even ''tiny Bit" though he got his
! consular appointment. and TO take him
! to his post he found II necessary to
borrow two hundred of his oephew s
six hundred dollars. ut makes me
/ sick, George" he said. "But I'd bet
ter get there and get that salary start
ed. OF course Eugene would do any
thing in the world, and the fact is he
wanted TO. but / felt that-ah-under
the circumstance
Never George exclaimed. growing
red. 81 c;tn't imagine one of the fam
/ ily" He paused, not finding il
necessary to explain that the fam
| lily" shouldn't turn a man from the
door and then accept favors from him.
Il wish you'd take more"
ANDERSON declined. zone thing I'll
say for you, young George; you have
Mt stingy bone in your body. That $
the ANDERSON stock In you-and ] like
itr
He added something to this praise
Of his nephew on the day he left for
| Washington. He was not to return,
but to set forth fcoin the capital on
the long journey to his post. George
went with him to the station, and
their farewell was heightened by the
trains being several minutes late.
II may not see you again, George"
Anderson said, and his voice was 4
little husky as he set a kind hand on
the young mans shoulder. tits quite
probable that from this time on we'll
only know each other by letter-unil
you're notified as my next Of kin that
there's an old valise TO be forwarded
to you, and perhaps some dusty curos
from the consulate mantelpiece. Wen.
it's an odd way for us to be saying
good bye; one wouldn't have thought
it, even few years age, brt here we
| are, two gentlemen of elegant appear
ance In a state of bustitude. We ca. t
ever tell what will happen at all. can
wei Life and money both behave lie
loose quicksilver in nest of cracks.
And when they're gone we can't tel
whereof what the devil we did with
EN- But ! believe I'll say now-while
there isn't much time left for either
OF us to get embarrassed about it, |
believe I'll say that I've always been
fond of you. We all spoiled you ter
ribly when you were little boy AID
let you grow up en- prince-and |
must say you took to 1t But you've
received a pretty heavy jolt, and l
had enough of your disposition, myself,
at your age, to understand little of
what cocksure youth has to go through
inside when 1t finds that II can make
terrible mistakes. Well, with my train
coming into the shed, you'll forgive
me for saying that there have been
times when thought you ought to be
hanged--but I've always been fond
of you, and now like you And just
for last word there may be some
body else in this town who's always
felt about you like that-fond of you,
/ mean, no matter Low much 1t Seem
ed you ought TO be hsuged. You might
try Hello, must run. I'll send
back the money as fast as they pay
me-so, good bye and God bless you,
Georgiep
He passed through the gates, waved
his hat cheerily from the other side
of the iron screen, and was lost from
sight in the hurrying crowd. And as
he disappeared, an unexpected pOign-
ant loneliness fell upon his nephew so
heavily and n suddenly that he had
no energy 10 recoil from the shock. II
seemed to him that the last fragment
of his familiar world had disappeared,
leaving him all alone forever.
He walked homeward slowly through