Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1920-01-01

| as you're ansWeFinG.-eVaded, and
tried to be gentleI I don't care to be
handled with glovesi I tell you was
right, and / don't need any coddling
by people that think / wasn't And
I suppose you believe was wrong not
to let Morgan see her that last night
when he came here, and she-she was
dying. II you do, why in the name Of
God did you come and ask met You
could have taken him in She did
want to see him. She
Miss Fanny looked startled. "You
think"
"she told me sol" And the tortured
young man choked. "She said-just
once She said I'd like to have seen
him-just onceP She meant-te tell
him good-byel That's what she
meantl And you put this on me, too;
you put this responsibility on me-
But tel you, and I told Uncle
George, that the responsibility isn't
all mine If you were so sure was
wrong all the time-when / took her
away, and when turned Morgan out
If you were so sure, what did you
let me do it for? You and Uncle
George were grown people. both Of
you. weren't your You were older
than I, and If you were so sure you
were wiser than I, why did You just
stand around with your hands hanging
down, and let me 60 ahead7 You
could have stopped 1t If It was wrong,
couldn't you1"
Fanny shook her head. "No. George"
she said slowly. Nobody could have
stopped you. You were too strong.
and"
"And what7' he demanded loudly.
"And she loved you-too we'll"
George stared at her hard, then his
lower lip began to move convuIsiveIy,
and he set his teeth upon 1t but could
not check its frantic twitching.
He ran out Of the room.
She sat still, listening. He had
plunged into his mothers room. but no
sound came to Fanny's ears after the
sharp closing Of the door; and pres
emily she rose and stepped out into
the haIl-but could hear nothing.
What interview was sealed away from
human eye and ear within the lonely
darkness on the other side OF that
door-in that darkness where Isabel's
own special chairs were, and her own
special books, and the two great wal
nut wardrobes filed with her dresses
and wraps7 What tragic argument
might be there vainly striving to COM
flute the gentle dead7 Elm Gods name,
what else could have doneFp For
his mothers iTnmutable silence was
surely answering him as Isatel in life
would never have answered him, and
he was beginning to understand how
eloquent the dead can be. They cam
not stop their eloquence, no matter
how they have loved the living; they
cannot choose. And so, no matter In
what agony George should cry out,
''What else could / have doneT' and
to the end Of his life no matter how
often he made that wild appeal, Isabel
was doomed to answer him with the
wistful. faint murmur.
'Td like to have-seen him. Just
once"
A superstitiOus person
might have thought It unfortunate that
partner in speculative indus
try as in WlIbur's disastrous rolling
mills, was that charming but too hap
man Of the world, George
ANDERSON. He was one Of those OPP
timlsts who believe that If you put
into a great many enterprises
one Of them Is sure to turn out for
tune. and therefore, in order to find
the lucky one, It is only necessary to
go into large enough number Of them.
"You ought to have thought Of my
record and stayed out" he told Fanny,
one day the next spring, when the af-
fairs Of the headlight company had
begun to look discouraging. Things
do look bleak, and I'm only glad you
didn't go into this confounded thing
to the extent did"
Miss Fanny grew Fink. @But It must
e right" she protested. 'sWe saw
Win UuL UWu eyes INV EEAAGNlAa - /
worked ont IN the shop. It simply"
ION, you're right about that" Am
berson said. cit certainly was q per-
feet thing-in the shOpp'
aBut think of that test on the road |
when we-
'eThat test was lovely he admitted
iaThe inventor made rs happy with his
oratory, and you and Frank Bronson
and I went whirIing through the night /
at a speed that thrilled Us. We must |
never forget it-and we never shall
It cost"
'But something must be done"
ut must indeedl Ny something |
would seem to be leaving my watch at |
my uncle's. Luckily. you"
The pink Of Fanny's cheeks became
deeper. "But isn't that man going to /
10 anything to remedy it, Can't he
Try to-"
He can try" said Anderson. He
IS trying. II fact. I've sat tn the shop