The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-08-23

Dear" She said IT wish you'd tel
me something: Why don't you like Eu
geneT'
"Oh, Ike him well enough" George
returned, with short laugh, as he sal
down and began to unlace his shoes
81 like him well enough-in his place.
mo, dear" she said hurriedly. "rvt
had feeling from the very first thai
You didn't really like him-that yor
really never liked him. | can't under
stand 1t, dear; don't see what can b.
the matter"
"Nothing's the matter"
This easy declaration naturally
failed to carry great weight. and lisa
bel went on, in her troubled voice: III
seems so queer, especially when yor
feel as you do about his daughter"
At this, George stopped unlacing his
shoes abruptly. and sat up. slow do
feel about his daughterT" he de
manded.
"Well, it's seemed-as if--as if
Isabel began timidly. "It did seem
At least, you haven't looked at any
other girl ever since they came here,
and-certainly you've seemed very
much interested in her. Certainly
you've been very great friends?"
swell, what of that?"
'It's only that I'm like your grand
father: can't see how you could be
so much interested in a girl and-and
not feel very pleasantly toward her
father"
"Well, I'll tell you something
George said slowly, and frOwn. OF
concentration could be seen upon his
brow, as from a profound effort at
"The truth is,
don't believe I've ever thought Of the
two together, exactly-at least, not
until lately. I've always thought OF
Lucy just as Lucy, and Of Morgan just
as Morgan. I've always thought OF
her as a person herself not as any,
body's daughter. If I have a friend. ]
don't see that IFS incumbent upon me
to like my friends relatives. Now,
suppose [ have certain ideas or ideals
which I have chosen for the regulation
of my own conduct in life. Suppose
some friend Of mine has a relative
with ideals directly the opposite OF
mine, and my friend believes more in
the relatives ideals than in mine: Do
you think ought to give up my own
just to please a person who's taken up
ideals that really despise?"
mo. dear; of course people can't
give up their ideals; but 1 don't see
what this has to do with dear little
Lucy and"
81 didn't say it had anything to do
with them" he interrupted. Il was
merely putting a case to show how a
person would be justified in being a
friend of one member of family and
feeling anything but friendly toward
another. I don't say, though, that /
feel unfriendly to Mr.. Morgan. don't
say that 1 feel friendly to him, and
don't say that 1 feel 'unfriendly; but
If you really think that 1 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 him? 1 can't
at all. What is it that you
don't"
There, there!" he said. "It's all
g.sllC, and you toddle along"
LIT, George"
">-;ow, now! really do want to get
into bed. Goodnight old lady"
But, George, dear"
"Tm going to bed, old lady; so good
night"
Thus the interview closed perforce.
She kissed him again before going
slowly to her own room, her perple1-
ity evidently not dispersed; but the
subject was not renewed between
them the next day or subsequently.
Nor did Fanny make any allusfOn to the
cryptic appreciation she had bestowed
upon her nephew after the Majors
not very successful little dinner"
.hOugh she annoyed George by looking
1t him Oftener and longer than he
AIRED to be looked at by an aunt.
He successfully avoided contact
With Lucy's father, though Eugene
anne frequently to the house, and
pent several evenings with Isabel and /
fanny; and sometimes persuaded them
nd the Major to go for an afternoons
motoring. He did not, however, come
gain to the Majors Sunday evening
Inner, even when George Anderson
eturned. Sunday evening was the
ime, he explained, for going over the
veek's work with his factory man
gers.
When Lucy came home the autumn
vas far enough advanced to smell of
urning leaves, and for the annual
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