Cleveland County herald., 1920-01-01

we'll survive, Georgie-you will, eS- pecially. For my part Pm little toe old and too accustomed to fall back on somebody else for supplies to start a big fight with life; I'll be content with just surviving, and can do it on an eighteen-hundred-do con- sulship. An ex-congreSsman can al ways be pretty sure of getting some such job, and I hear. from Washing ton the matters about settled. Sc much for me! But you-of course you've had poor training for making your own way, but you're only boy after all, and the stuff of the old stock is in you. It'll come out and do some thing. I'll never forgive myself about that deed; it would have given you something substantial to start with. Still, you have little tiny bit, and you'll have a little tiny salary, too; and of course your Aunt Fanny's here, and she's got something YOU can fall back on if you get too pinched. until can begin to send you dribble now and then"
 Georges little tiny bit" was six hundred dollars which had come to him from the sale of his mothers fur niture; and the little tiny salary" was eight dollars a week which old Frank Bronson was to pay him for services as a clerk and student-at- law. George had accepted haughtily, and thereby removed a burden from his uncle's mind.
 Anderson himself, however, had not even a tiny bit;;" though he got his consular appointment, and to take him to his post he found it necessary to borrow two hundred of his nephew's six hundred dollars. Tt makes me sick, George" he said. But I'd bet ter get there and get that salary start ed. Of course Eugene would do any thing in the world, and the fact is he wanted to, but I felt that-ah-under the circumstances"
 "Never!" George exclaimed, growing red. q can't imagine one of the fam fly" He paused not finding it necessary to explain that "the fam fly" shouldn't turn man from the door and then accept favors from him. "I wish you'd take more."
 Anderson declined. "One thing I'll say for you, young George; you have mt a stingy bone in your body. That's the Anderson stock in you-and 1 like . it!
 He added something to this praise of his nephew on the day he left for Washington. He was not to return but to set forth from the capital on the long journey to his post. George went with him to the station, and their farewell was heightened by the trains being several minutes late. q may not see you again, Georgie, ? Anderson said, and his voice was I little husky as he set a kind hand on the young mans shoulder. Its quite probable that from this time on well only know each other by letter-until you're notified as my next of kin that there's an old valise to be forwarded to you, and perhaps some dusty curios from the consulate mantelpiece. Well it's an odd way for us to be saying good bye; one wouldn't have thought 1t, even few years ago. but here We are, two gentlemen of elegant appear ance in a state of bustitude. We can't ever tell what will happen at all, car we? Life and money both behave like loose quicksilver in a nest of cracks And when they're gone we can't tell where-or what the devil we did witt 'em But I believe I'll say now-while there isn't much time left for either , of us to get embarrassed about it-] believe I'll say that I've always beer fond of you. We all spoiled you ter ribly when you were a little boy aaC let you grow I'D en prince-and must say you took to it But you've received a pretty heavy jolt, and had enough of your disposition, myself at your age, to understand a little ot what cocksure youth has to go through inside when it finds that it can make terrible mistakes. Well, with my train coming into the shed, you'll forgive me for saying that there have been times when thought you ought to be hanged-but I've always been fond of you, and now I like you And just for last word; there may be some body else in this town who's always felt about you like that-fond of you, l mean, no matter how much 1t seem ed you ought to be hanged. You might try Hello, must run. I'll send back the money as fast as they pay me-so, good bye and God bless you, Georgie !"
 He 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 as he disappeared, an unexpected poigt ant loneliness fell upon his nephew Sc heavily and so suddenly that he had no energy to recoil from the shock. l. seemed to him that the last fragment of his familiar world had disappeared leaving him all alone forever.
 He walked homeward slowly through .