Cleveland County herald., 1920-01-01

'It's curious about the deed to her house," he said to his nephew. "You're absolutely sure 1t wasn't among her pa pers?'
 ''Mother didn't have any papers," George told him. 'None at all. All she ever had to do with business was to deposit the checks grandfather gave her, and then write her own checks against them"
 "The deed to the house was never recorded" Anderson said thoughtful l ly. "Ive been over to the courthouse to see. think it would be just as well to get him to execute one now in your favor. I'll speak to him about it."
 George sighed. "I don't think I'd bother him about it; the house is mine, and you and I understand that it is. That's enough for me, and there isn't likely to be much trouble between you and me when we come to settling poor grandfather's estate. I've just been with him, and I think it would only confuse him for you to speak to him about 1t again. I notice he seems dis tressed if anybody tries to get his at- tention-he's a long way off, some where, and he likes to stay that way. I think-I think mother wouldn't want us to bother him about it; I'm sure she'd tell us to let him alone. He looks so white and queer"
 Anderson shook his head. 'T won't bother him any more than I can help; but I'll have the deed made out ready for his signature"
 q wouldn't bother him at all. I don't see"
 You might see," said his uncle un- easily. "The estate is just about as involved and mixed up as an estate can we'll get. to the best of my knowl edge. You ought to have that deed."
 "No, don't bother him."
 ''I'll bother him as little as possible. I'll wait till some day when he seems to brighten up little."
 But Anderson waited too long. The Major had already taken eleven months since his daughters death to think important things out One evening his grandson sat with him-the Major seemed to like best to have young George with him, so far as they were able to guess his preferences-and the old gentleman made a queer gesture ; he slapped his knee as if he had made a sudden discovery, or else remember ed that he had forgotten something.
 George looked at him with an air of inquiry, but said nothing. He had grown to be almost as silent as his grandfather. However, the Major spoke without being questioned.
 Ut must be in the sum-" he said. "There wasn't anything here but the sun in the first place, and the earth came out of the sun, and we came out of the earth. So, whatever we are, we must have been in the sun. We go back to the earth we came out of so the earth will go back to the sun that it came out of. And time means nothing-nothing at all-sO in a little while we'll all be back in the sun to- gether. I wish"
 He moved his hand uncertainty as if reaching for something, and George Julllpeu up. b1u you Wdul ally tlliuS, grandfather"
 "What?"
 ''Would you like a glass of water?" "No-no. No; don't want anything" The reaching hand dropped back up- on the arm of his chair, and he re- lapsed into silence; but few min tues later he finished the sentence he had begun:
 q wish-somebody could tell me!'
 The next day he had a slight cold, but he seemed annoyed when his son suggested calling the doctor, and Am person let him have his own way so far, in fact, that after he had got up and dressed, the following morning, he was all alone when he went away to find out what he hadn't been able to think out-all those things he had wished somebody" would tell him.
 Old Sam, shuffling in with the break fast tray, found the Major in his ac- customed easy-chair by the fireplace and yet even the old darkey could see instantly that the Major was not there.
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