Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1920-02-12
SYNOPSIS.

a. 6s|sa married yeSnS WIPER liz M m1,Sts
could never really love Wilbur Vii r. ali her
1 TSere would ma1 be best bestowed upon the children.
bringing and his youthful accomplisR-
ments as q mischief maker were quite In
tas oas. with the most Dessimlst'c predic-
CHAPTER 1II;-By. the time George
to conceal his belief that the Ambersons
the world. At a ball given in his honor
monopolized Lucy Morgan, a stranger and
the prettiest girl present. and got on ia
%:'Sssly i Saih her du nat!' as ' %ho% n that sas g
ilady's -fatheE: He was Eugene Morgan. 3
returning there to erect a factory and to
6uild horseless carriages of his own in
GMAPTER IY-EuEene was an old ad-
mis red OF LIS bers and they had been en-
cause OF some youthful indiscretion and
married Wilbur Minafer.
progress IN his courtshifp of % Lucy. RAPID
CHAPTER W-while driving with
to get beyond control. and the animal
Lucy in the snow, unhurt., although
George Is greatly annoyed
CHAPTER vI1.-Gcorge reveals Intense
dislike OF Morgan. whom he, suspects Of
f hnaasia' H dss' sSnt. On Fa n1s u Mihat or g r. ID.
great establishment, sharply rebukes him.
CHAPTER .v111.-Home" on vacation.
George has a heart-to-heart ak with his
mother. In which the state of the family
both. Hsu'e' george Is 0pon'sn' as 10
serninng Lucy and her suitors-in %particu-
consent to a formal engagement of mar
riage, but Lucy refuses.
CHAPTER X..George becomes annoyed
at gossip which connects his mothers
rabnSe W'1 b1a E ASgf A Me5ga9 9or ap bar ri 4ama1Ry
on the subject. Aunt Fanny is sympa-
thetio but somewhat bewildering.
CHAPTER xII.-Lucy and George talk
Of ideals of life. which they find surpria-
1ngly different and part in something
which very nearly approaches a quarrel.
M G%4r Xmber xl11.a at xs e dIn RsEa gtye md BY
ami snim 10 t s to his motgherRs 5a oid fr se9Ts MS
CHAPTER X1V-About a year after his
w wesn tai 9aiki he@' a aaanY E fS1e nlm AND r9e0RRiis s
mother.
scene when he visits Mrs. johnson, a
ss er'hip House u.o HHiis HIS uncle Geo George g o tells him alg he
has acted foolishly and his modification is
complete.
CHAPTER ,xv1.--Geerge learns that
Morgan has planned to take Isabel on an
sane through worry over the false situa-
ton in which he imagines his mother Is
!. placing herself, he orders Eugene from
the house when he calls
CHAPTER XVII.-Isabeps only thought
shows him Eugene's letter-a manly ex-
preston Of affection and a plea that she
e eome to tb him; vr, George ged veSaP s n1aay de. de-;
isabel consents to sacrifice herself and
49, 800: Iu1ehe.
CHAPTER X~VIII.-George tells Lucy he
and his mother are going abroad ''for
e good" Lucy has not heard of her fathers
coming, separation keenly. Returning
home she finds Fanny Minafer waiting to
give her a full account of what took place,
and famingly angry, Lucy destroyed ali
the little %keepsakes and letters George had
sent her; but her heart was heavy indeed
for a trip around the world. The town
has a tremendous boom and everything Is
very much changed.
i. CHAPTER xIx.-Isabel and George
came back only when Isabels weak heart
warned that they was little time. Two
warned that there was little time. Two
died. A disastrous investment in a new
headlight swept away Fanny''a
sum advanced to George ANDERSON by
his father. When the old major died It
was found that the estate was hopelessly
involved.
lie passed through the gates, waved
his hat cheerily from the other side
of the iron screen, and was lost from
sight in the hurrying crowd. And rs
he disappeared, an unexpected poigl.
ant loneliness fell upon his nephew SO
heavily and so suddenly that he had
no energy to recoil from the shock. 1:
seemed to him that the last fragment
of his familiar world had disappeared:
leaving him all alone forever.
He walked homeward slowly through
what appeared to be the strange
city, and, as a matter Of fact, the city
was strange to him. He had seen lit
tie Of it during his years in college.
and then had followed the long alb
sence and his tragic return. Since that
he had been scarcely outdoors at all'
as Fanny complained, warning him
that his health would suffer, and he
had been downtown only in a closed
carriage. He had not realized the
great change.
The streets were thunderous, a vast
energy heaved under the universal
coating of dinginess. George walked
through the begrimed crowds Of hur
rylng strangers and saw no face that
he remembered. Great numbers OF
faces were even of a kind he did not
remember ever to have seen; they
were partly like the old type that
his boyhood knew, and partly like
types he knew abroad. He saw Ger
man eyes with American wrinkles al
their. corncrs: he saw Irish yves ant