River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-01-22

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$50 have l." Fanny admitted. she
seemed TO be certain 1t would pay
twenty-five per cent the first year, and
enormously more after that; and I'm
only getting four on my little princi-
pal. People are making such enor-
nous fortunes out of everything to do
with motorcars, it does seem as if"
She paused. "Well, I told him I'd
think it over seriously"
"We may turn out to be partners
and millionaires Them Anderson
laughed. Il thought I'd esk Eugene's
advice"
81 wish you would" said Fanny. "Hc
probably knows exactly how much
profit there would be in this"
Eugene's advice was to "go slow"
he thought electric lights for automo-
biles were "coming-some day." but
probably not until certain difficulties
could be overcome. Altogether he was
discouraging but by this time his two
friends chad the fever" as thoroughly
as old Frank Bronson himself had it !;
for they had been with Bronson to see
the light working beautifully in ma
chine shop. Perfect" Fanny cried.
"And If 1t worked in the shop it's
bound to work any place else, isn't
1T"
Eugene would not agree it was
"bound to''-yet, being pressed, was
driven to admit that sit might" and
retiring from what was developing in
to an oratorical contest, repeated a
warning about not putting too much
into It,"
George ANDERSON also laid stress on
caution later, though the Major had
financed him" again, and he was go
ing in." "You must be careful to leave
yourself margin of safety Fanny"
he said. You must be careful to leave
yourself enough to fall back on, In
case anything should go wrong"
Fanny deceived him. In the i'm
possible event of anything going
wrong" she would have enough left
to 'live on" she declared, and laughed
excitedly, for she was having the best
time that had come to her since VIII
bur's death. Like so many women for
whom money has always been pro-
vided without their understanding
how, she was prepared to be thor
ough and irresponsible plunger.
Anderson, in his wearier way,
shared her excitement, and in the
winter when the exploiting company
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. snow let's go ahead and
be millionaires before Isabel and young
George come home"
"When they come home!" she
echoed sorrowfully-and it was a
phrase which found an evasive echo
in Isabel's 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" Fam,
said. eff they ever do come home.
Anderson went over the next sun
mer and joined his sister and nephe'
in Paris, where they were living. rs;
bel does want to come home he tot
Fanny gravely on the day of his r.
turn in October. "She's wanted to 70
q long while-and she ought to com
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 dinna4. ut the new house Eugene
had Just completed.
He yHs loud In praise of the house
after Eugene arrived, and gave them
no account of his journey until they
Eugene's library, gray and shadowy
room, where their coffee was brought.
Then, equipped with a cigar, which
seemed to occupy his attention, AM
bersOn spoke in a casual lone Of his
sister and her son.
II found Isabel as well as usual"
he said, "only I'm afraid as usual
isn't particularly well. 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 Sgd
ney's ailing and lives in wheel chair
most of the time. 1t 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 to
have concluded his narrative Eugene
spoke ovt 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