Courier Democrat., 1920-01-15

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"of All the Ridiculous" He Began
Furiousiy.
from Its grasp of his sleeve and
clapped 1t over his mouth.
"Hush up", Never for an instant In
this grotesQue struggle did Fanny
raise her voice above husky whisper
"Hush up! It's indecent-like squab.
bling outside the door of an operating
room Go on to the top of the stairs
so onw
Ard when George had most unwill-
ingly obeyed, she planted herself in
his way, on the top step. "There I"
she said. "The idea Of your going in
there now! never heard Of such q
thing!" And with the sudden depart
ure of the nervous vigor she had
shown so amazingly. she began to cry
again. Il was an awful fool. Do you
suppose I dreamed you'd go making
everything into such tragedy? Do
you?"
II don't care what you dreamed" j"
George muttered.
But Fanny went on, always taking
care to keep her voice from getting
too loud, in spite Of her most grievous
agitation. "Do you dream I thought
you'd go making such a fool Of your
self at Mrs. Johnson's? Oh, l saw her
this morning! She wouldn't talk to
me, but I met George ANDERSON on my
way back, and he told me what you'd
done over there! And do you dream /
thought you'd do what you've done
here this afternoon to Eugene? Oh
1 knew that, too OF course he went
to George ANDERSON about it, and
that's why George is here. He's got
to tell Isabel the whole thing now
and you wanted to go in there inter.
fering-God knows what! You stay
here and let her brother tell her; he's
got some consideration for her!'
"I suppose you think I haven't p
George said, and at that Fanny laugh.
ed witheringfy.
"You! Considerate Of anybody!'
I'm oOnsiderata of her good name ~
he said hotly. "It seems to me that's
about the first thing to be considerate
of, in being consderate of a person
And look here; it strikes me you're
taking a pretty different tack from
what you did yesterday afternoon ~
Fanny wrung her hands. II did &
| tnr, 1n hi, 1ny
that it's done and too late, l know
what it was! 1 didn't have sense
enough just to let things go on.
didn't have any business to interfere
and didn't mean to interfere-I only
wanted to talk, and let out little
| did think you already knew every.
thing I told you. Gid |! And I'd rather
have cut off my hand than stir you
up to doing what you have done!
was just suffering SO that 1 wanted tC
let out little-I didn't mean any real
harm. But now 1 see what's happened
ness interfering. Eugene never would
have looked at me, anyhow, and. oh
why couldn't / have seen that before
He never came here q single time in
his life except on her account, never
and I might have let them alone, be
cause he wouldn't have looked at me
| even if he'd never seen Isabel. And
they haven't done any harm; she made
| Wilbur happy, and she was a true
wife to him as long as he lived. II
wasn't a crime For her to care fol
Eugene all the time; she certainly
never told him she did-and she gave
me every chance in the world! She
left us alone together every time she
could-even since Wilbur died-but
what was the use? And here 1 go. not
doing myself a bit of good by it, and
just"-Fanny wrung her hands again
-"just running themw
II suppose you mean I'm doing
that George said bitterly.
"No. She doesn't let anybody know
but she goes to the doctor regularity
"Women are always going to doc.
tors regularly"
mo. He told her to-"
George was not impressed. Its
nothing at all; she spoke of II to me
years ago-S0mc kind of family fnil-
ing. She snid grandfather had II, too
and look ut him! Hasn't proved very
| serious with him, You net as lf Ia
done something wrong In sending that
man about his business, and as II
| were going to persecute my mother
Instead. ..of protecting her. Bv Jove.