News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1919-08-27
SYNOPSIS.

a8'eyG losing fortunes, ana tn6 mdSnlncenC
ri the Ambersons began then. Major Am
5tersOn laid out 2OO-acre development,
-Tith roads and Statuary, and in the centr
& d tract t6 on os ayenIe
mansion the Midland City had ever seen
a G3ne ma married young wber M a3Et
be neighbOrs predicted that as Isabe
gao.Id never really love Wilbur all hei
There was only one child, however
George Anderson Minafer, but his up
bringing and his youthful accomplish
H7eGts as a mischief maker were quite in
soepng with the most pessimistic predic-
a--eS.
CHAPTER III.-By the time George
vent away to college he did not attempt
70 conceal his belief that the Ambersons
we're about the most important family in
zhe world. At a ball given in his honor
rI.an he returned from college, George
n2polized Lucy Morgan, stranger and
che prettiest girl present and got on ia
mously with her until he learned that a
been pOling much fun, was the young
lady'S father. He was Eugene Morgan a
CORNER resident Of Bigburg, and he was
returning there to erect a factory and to
build horseless carriages of his own in
vantion
CHAPTER IV.-Eugene was an old ad-
.nIrer of IsabeTs and they had been en-
gagged when Isabel threw him over be-
married Wilbur Mnater.
CHAPTER v.-George makes rapid
progress in his courtship of Lucy
CHAPTER vI.-Whfle driving with
Lucy, next day, George allows the horse
10 get beyond control, and the animal
2Verturns the cutter, spilling George and
lucy IN the snow, unhurt, although
George is greatly ANNOYED.
CHAPTER VII-George reveals intense
dislike of Morgan, whom he suspects of
financial designs on his uncle or grand
father, His aunt, Fanny Minafer to his
great establishment, sharply rebukes him.
CHAPTER VIII.-Home on vacation.
George has a heart tO-h5art talk with his
mother in which the state of the family
FINANCES and his fathcrs failing health |
10Th figure. George is optimistic as L I
10Th.
CT IX;7,Heartag a@...ors con-
'Fnl4g Lucy and her suifrEs--ln particu-
itr Fred kinney-George urges her to !
consent to a formal engagement of mar,
dl@Re. hut Lucy refuses.
CHAPTER X.-George becomes annoyed
at gossip which connects his mothers |
name with Eugene Morgan, ara TsShtfully
on the subject. Aunt Fanny is sympa-
thetic but somewhat bewildering.
CHAPTER XI.-The sudden death of his
father following graduation, recalls |
George from college. ,
The annoyance gave way before a
recollection of the sweet mOurnfulness
of his mothers face, as she had said
gOod-by TO him at the station, and of |
how lovely she looked in her mourning.
die thought of Lucy, whom he had seen !
only twice, and he could not help feel
ing that in these quiet interviews he |
had appeared to her as tinged with |
heroism-she had shown, rather than
said, how brave she thought him.
When he went back to college, what
ecame most wildly to Georges mind, |
during retrOspectiOns, was the despair
ing face of his Aunt Fanny. Again and
again he thought Of it; he could not +
avoid its haunting. Her grief had been !
so silent, yet it had so amazed him. /
George felt more and more compass |
sion for this ancient antagonist Of his, |
and he wrote to his mother about her: !
''I'm afraid poor Aunt Fanny might |
think now fathers gone we won't want !
her to live with us any longer and be-
cause | always leased her so much she |
might think I'd he for turning her out. !
i don't know where on earth she'd go |
or what she could live on if we did do !
something like this, and of course we
never would do such thing, but Tn
pretty sure she had something of the |
kind on her mind. She didn't say any
thing, but the way she looked is what
makes me think so. Honestly, to me
she looked just scared sick. You tell
her there isn't any danger in the world
of my treating her like that. Tell her
everything is to go on just as it al
ways has. Tell her to cheer upl"
Isabel did more for Fanny than tell
ing her to cheer up. Everything that
Fanny inherited from her father, old
AIeck Minafer, had been invested in
'WHbur's business; and Wilbur's bust
ness, after a period of illness cOrre-
spending in dates to the Illness of VIII
burs body, had died just before Will
bur did. George ANDERSON and Fanny
were both wiped out to a miracle of
precision" as Anderson said. They
~owned not a penny and owed not a
penny" he continued, explaining his
phrase. ITS like the moment just be-
fore drowning: you're not under water
and you're not out of it. All you know
is that you're not dead yet"
He spoke philosophically, having his
from his father to fall
back upon; but Fanny had neither
nor philosophy. However.
a legal survey of Wilbur's estate re-
veaIed the fact that his life insurance
was left clear of the wreck; and Isa-
bel. with the cheerful consent Of her
son. promptly turned this salvage over
10 her sister-in-law. Invested. il would
Yield something better than nine hun
dred dollars a year, and thus she was
assured of becoming neither a pauper
nor a dependent, but proved to be, as
said, adding his efforts to
The cheering up of Fanny, "an heiress,
after ell, in spite of rolling mills and
.he de-"
The collegian did not return to his
nome for the holidays. Instead, Isa-
,eI ioin.5 him, and they went South