Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1920-02-26
CHAPTER XIII.

Eugene's feeling about George had
not been altered by his talk with Kin
ney in the club window, though he was
somewhat disturbed. Kinney had rep
resented George as a new George
at least in SpOtS-a George who was {,
proving that decent stuff had been hid
in him; in fact, a George who was do
ing rather a handsome thing in taking
a risky job for the sake of his aunt,
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:
and, though his mood had withheld the
information from Kinney, he had re-
Gently bought from the elder Akers a
substantial quantity Of stock on the
condition that the chemical company
should establish an cxperimt ntal labo-
ratory. He intended to buy more;
Akers was anxious to please him and
a 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 1t become part of his percep-
tons long enough for it to prove to
him that it was actually a possibility.
Then he half sta tied with disgust that
such q thing over his last cigar for the
night. In his library. mol" And he
threw the cigar into the empty fire.
place and we"t to bed.
His bitterness for himself might
have worn away, but never his bitter
ness for Isabel. He took that thought
to bed with hlm-unt it was true that
, nothing George could do woull ever
change this bitterness Of Eugene. Only
: Georges mother could have changed it.
, And as Eugene fell asleep that
night, thinking thus bitterly Of
Georgia, 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 managed to disentangle
them and even to understand why he
had confused them. Long ago his
3 grandfather had been the most strlk-
ing figure Of success in the town: GAS
rich as Major Anderson" they used to
say. Now it was Eugene. "1f l had
Eugene Morgan's money" he would
hear the workmen day-dreaming at the
chemical works; or, IF Eugene Nor
! gan had hold Of this place you'd sec
things hum" And the bonrders at the
] table d'hote spoke of "the Morgan
Place" as an eightcenth-century
4 Frenchman spoke Of Versailles. Like
4 his uncle, George had perceived tina:
4 the Morgan Place" was the new Am.
berson mansion. His reverie went back
to the palatial days Of the mansion, in
4 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
/ Their, observing from a window. would
laugh and call out to him: "That'S
right, George. Make those lazy ras
calls jump" He remembered his gay
young uncles, and how the town was
eager concerning everything abou;
! them, and about himself. What a clean
pretty town it had been! And in his
reverie he saw like a pageant before
him the magnificence of the Amber
| sons-its passing, and the passing OF
the AmbersonS themselves. They hat
been slowly engulfed without knowing
how to prevent it, and almost without
knowing Y rat was happening t" them
The family lot, in the shabby old quar-
ter, out at the cemetery, held most o.
i them nOw: and the name w;,S sweep
altogether from the new city. The
A1RberSonS had passed, and tne new
d people would pass, and the new people
: that came after them, and the mex
new ones. and the next-and thu
Y next
q He had begun to murmur, and thu
man on duty as night nurse for thu
ward came and bent over him.
"Did you want something's"
II "Therc's nothing in this family bust
5 ness" George old him contidentially
Gwen George Washington is OIL.
: something in Il book"
i X
Eugene read Il report of the acciden
Y in the next Mornings paper. He wa;
: on the train, having just left for New
York, on business, and with less leiS
ure would probably have overlooked
!, the obscure item:
v LEG BROKEN.
I G. A. Minafer, an employee OF the Ak
ers Chemical company. was run down b.
> an automobile yesterday at the corner 0
Y Tennessee and Main and had both leg
O broken. Minafer was to blame for tn,