River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-11-06

Oh Iour-acfe tract, on ANDERSON avenue,
built for himself the most magnificent
mansion the Midland City had ever seen
CHAPTER II-When the majors
the neighbors predicted that as Isabel
Gould never really love Wilbur all her
ioye would be bestowed upon the children.
George ANDERSON Minafer, but his up.
bringing and his youthful ACCOMPLISH
ments as mischief maker were quite in
lions.
CHAPTER III.-By the time George
went away to college he did not attempt
10 conceal his belief that the Ambersons
were about the most important family in
the world. At ball given in his honor
m one ne returned from college, George
monopol1zed Lucy Morgan, a stranger and
the prettlest girl present, and got on ia
mIously with her until he learned that a
queer looking duck" at whom he had
ladys father. He was Eugene Morgan, a
FORMER resident OF Bigburg and he was
returning there to erect a factory and to
build horseless carriages of his own in
Vention.
CHAPTER IV.-Eugene was an old adj
Hnrer or lSaDePs and they had been en-
gagged when Isabel threw him over be-
cause of some youthful indiscretion and
married Wilbur Minafer.
Continued from last week.
The queer-Iooking duck had been
real dancer in his day, it appeared
and evidently his day was not yet
over. In spite of the headlong, gay
rapidity with which he bore Miss
Fanny about the big room he danced
authoritatively, avoiding without eff
fort the lightest collision with other
couples, maintaining sufficient grace
throughout his widest moments, and
all the while laughing and talking
with his partner What was most re-
markable to George, and little irri-
tating, this stranger in the ANDERSON
mansion had no vestige of the air of
difference proper to stranger in such
a place: he seemed thoroughly at
home. He seemed Extensively so, in
deed, when, passing the entrance to
the gallery stairway, he disengaged
his hand from Miss Fanny's for an in
slant, and not pausing in the dance,
waved a laughing salutation more
than cordial, then capered lightly out
of sight
George gazed stonily at this mani
festation, responding neither by word
nor sign. Flows that for a bit of
freshness?" he murmured.
what WASP" Miss Morgan asked.
"That queer-looking duck waving
his hand at me like that. Except he's
the Sharon girls uncle I don't know
him from Adam"
GtVo,, don't mad che eo;x1 0VYo
wasn't waving his hand to you: he
meant me-"
"Oh, he did?' George was not mol
lifted by the explanation. Everyone
seems to mean you! You certainly do
seem to have been pretty busy this
week you've been here!"
She pressed her bouquet to her face
again and laughed into it, not dis
pleased. She made no other COM
Ament, and for another period neither
spoke.
We'll" said George finally, 81 must
say you don't seem to be much of
prattler. They say it's great way
to get reputation for being wise
never saying much. Don't you ever
talk at all?"
when people can understand" she
answered.
He had been looking modify out
at the ballroom, but he turned to her
quickly, at this, saw that her eyes
were sunny and content, over the top
of her bouquet, and he consented to
smile.
"Girls are usually pretty freshr' he
said. "They ought to go to mans
college about year: they'd get
taught few things about freshness!
What you got to do after two o'clock
tomorrow afternoon"
"A whole lot of things Every min
ute filled up"
"All right" said George. "The
SHOWS fine for sleighing: I'll come for
you in a cutter at ten minutes after
two"
Il can't possibly 60"
IF you don't" he said, "Tm going
to sit in the cutter in front of the
gate, wherever you're visiting, all
afternoon, and if you try to go out
with anybody else he's got to whip
me before he gets YOU" And as she
laughed-though she blushed a little,
too-he continued, seriously: IF you
think I'm not in earnest you're at lib
erty to make quite big experiment ~
She laughed again. 81 don't think
I've often had so large a compliment
as that" she said, especially on such
short notice-and yet / don't think
I'll go with you"
"You be ready at ten minutes after
two"
mo, I won't"
Eyes, you will -
''Yes," she said, 81 Wilt" And her
partner for the next dance arrived,
breathless with searching.
Don't forget I've got the third
from now" George called after her.
When ''the third from now" came
George presented himself before her
without any greeting, like brother
or q mannerless old friend. Both
George and Miss Morgan talked much