The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1920-03-04
! The Magnificent Ambersons
By BOOTH HARRINGTON

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hs aid decislTely. -Y0z stay here zad
la'ok after the moving Old Frank
co@z1t expect ne un-a Afternoon.
this first day. bat IN % and see hira
BOW
II vas early. and Old Frank.
Just established az bis big. hzt-tOpped
desk vas surprised Ehsn his p-ospec-
tive assistant and p1pn walked IN He
was PLEASED, As well as surprised. how
ever. and rose. Offering a cordial old
hsnd- The real 1zre.- he said The
real fare for the law. That's right
Couidn't walt I'll afternoon to begin :
Tn delighted that you"
Il wanted TO say" George began.
bbt ais patron cut him OF.
Wait Just q minute. ny boz. I've
prepared q little speech Of welcome,
aid even though you're five hours
ahead Of time, / mean to deliver f.
First Of all. your grandfather was ny
old var eonrade and my best client;
for years prospered through my con
nectiOn with his business, and his
grandson Is welcome in my Once and
to my best efforts in his behalf. But i
want to confess, George, that during
your earlier youth I hl5- aav. mad
some slight feeling Of-well, pref dice,
not altogether In your favor; but what
ever slight feeling II was, It began to
vanish on that afternoon. a good while
ego, when you stood mp to your Aunt
Amelia Anderson as you did In the
Majors library. and talked TO her as a
man and a gentleman should. I saw
then what good stuff was In you-and
i always wanted to mention 1t. think
Toun find an honest pleasure now In
industry and frugality that vonIdn't
have come to you In q more frivolous
career. The law is Jealous mistress
and q stern mistress. but az
George had stood before him in
great and increasing embarrassment;
and he was unable 70 allow the ad-
dress 10 proceed to It's conclusion.
Il can't do itI" he burst out II
can't take her for my mistress"
"WhatYS
I've come to tell you. I've got to
ind something that's quicker. I
can't"
Old Frank got a little red. Lets sit
down." he said. whats the troublef"
George told him.
The old gentleman listened syrrps-
tbetically. only murmuring: "wen,
well I" from time to time, and nodding
acquiescence.
"you see she's set her mind on this
apartment" George explained. "She's
got some old cronies there. and I guess
she's been looking forward to the
games Of bridge and the kind OF harm
less gossip that goes on in such places.
Really. It's life she'd like better than
anything else-better than that she's
lived at home, really believe. II
struck rue she's just about got TO have
II. and after all she could hardly have
anything less"
This comes pretty heavily upon me.
you know" said old Frank. II got her
into that headlight company, and she
fooled me about her resources as much
as she did your Uncle George. I was
never your fathers adviser, II you re-
member, and when the insurance was
turned over TO her some other lawyer
arranged it--probably your fathers.
But II comes pretty heavily on me, and
i feed certain responsibility"
mot at all. I'm taking the RESPONSE |
bility." And George smiled with one |
corner'of his mouth. "Tll tell you how |
II is. sir" He flushed. and. looking out |
OF the streaked and smoky window be |
side which he was sitting. spoke with |
difficulty. II feel as if-as II perhaps
had ono or two pretty important
things In my ME to make up for. Well,
can't cant make them up to--to
whom I would. IT'S struck me that,
as couldn't, might be a little decent
to somebody else. perhaps-if I could
manage IL i never have been particu-
larry decent TO poor old Aunt Fanny"
"Oh. don't know: I shouldn't say
that. A little youthful teasing-I
doubt II she's minded so much. 1t
seems 10 me she's had a fairly com
Portable life-up to now--if she was
disposed to take II that way"
"But up TO now is the important
thing" George said. "Now is now
and you see can't wait two years to
be admitted to the bar and begin to
practice. I've got TO start in at some