Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1920-01-23

| poor old silly Fanny Minafer Eugene
didn't care what risks George took, or
how much decent stuff he had In him
nothing that George would ever do In
this world or the next could change
Eugene Morgan's feeling toward him.
If Eugene had wished. he could cas-
! lily have taken George out of the nitro
glycerin branch of the chemical works.
Always interested In apparent impos-
sibilities of invention, Eugene had en-
cOuraged many experiments in such
groupings as those for the discovery of
substitutes for gasoline and rubber I;
and, though his mood had withheld the
information from Kinney. he had re-
Gently bought from the elder .kers a
substantial quantity of stock on the
condition that the chemical company
should establishan experimental labo-
ratory. He intended to buy more /;
Akers was anxious to please him and
word from Eugene would have
placed George almost anywhere in the
chemical works. The possibility just
edged itself into Eugene's mind; that
is, he let it become part of his percep-
tons long enough for 1t to prove to
him that 1t was actually a possibility.
Then he half started with disgust that
he should be even idly considering
such thing over his last cigar for the
night, in his library. mol" And he
threw the cigar into the empty fire.
place and went to bed.
His bitterness for himself might
have worn away, but never his bitter
ness for Isabel. He took that thought
to bed with him-and 1t was true that
nothing George could do would ever
change this bitterness of Eugene. Only
Georges mother could have changed it.
And as Eugene fell asleep that
night, thinking thus bitterly of
George, George in the hospital was
thinking of Eugene. He thought Of Eu-
gene Morgan and of the Major; they
seemed to be the same person for
awhile, but he manged to dlsentangle
them and even to understand why he
had confused them. Long ago his
grandfather had been the most strik-
ing figure of success IN the town: GAS
rich as Major Amberson y they used to
say. Now 1t was Eugene. 'If had
Eugene Morgan's money" he would
hear the workmen day-dream;ng at the
chemical works; or. IF Eugene Nor
gan had hold of this place you'd see
things hum !" And the boarders at the
table d'hote spoke of ''the Morgan
Place" as an eighteenth-century
Frenchman spoke of Versailles. Like
his uncle, George had perceived tina.
the Morgan Place was the new Am
berson mansion. His reverie went back
to the palatial days Of the mansion, In
his boyhood, when he would gallOp his
pony up the driveway and order the
darkey stablemen about. while they
whooped and obeyed, and his grandpa
ther, observing from a window, would
laugh and call out to him: "That'S
right, George. Make those lazy ras-
calls jumpl" He remembered his gay
young uncies, and how the town was
eager concerning everything about
them, and about himself. What a clean,
pretty town it had been! And In his
reverie he saw like pageant before
him the magnificence of the Amber
sons-its passing, and the passing Of
the Ambersons themselves. They had
been slowly engulfed without knowing
how to prevent it. and almost without
knowing what was happening to them.
The family lot, in the shabby old quar-
ter, out at the cemetery, held most Of
them now; and the name was swept
| altogether from the new city. The
Ambersons had passed, and the new
people would pass, and the new people
that came after them. and the next
new ones, and the next-and the
next it9sa
He had begun to murmur, and the
man on duty us night nurse for the
ward came and bent over him.
did you want something?'
There's nothing in this family bust
ness" George told him confidentially.
"Even George Washington is only
something in a book"
a. -
Eugene read report or the accident
| in the next mornings paper. He was
on the train, having just left for New
York, on business, and with less leis-
ure would probably have overlooked
the obscure item:
| LEGS BROKEN.
! G. A. Minafer. an employee of the Ak
ers Chemical company, was run down by
an automobile yesterday at the corner OF
Tennessee and Main and had both legs
broken. Minafer was to blame for the
accident. according to Patrolman f. A.
Kax, who witnessed the affair. The auto
mobile was a small one driven by Herbert
Cottleman of 2173 Noble avenue, who stat
ed that he was making less than four
miles an hour. Minafer Is said to belong
to family formerly of considerable prom
inence in the city. He was taken to the
City hospital. where physicians stated
later that he was suffering from internal
injuries besides the fracture of his legs.
but might recover. Eft l.ttt
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