Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1920-01-29

great deal in manufacturing these
things that motor cars uSe-new inveR
lions particularly. l met dear ole
Frank Bronson the other day, and ht
told me"
'Oh, yes, even dear old Franks go
the fever" Anderson laughed. Hes
as wild as any of them. He told ne
about this invention he's gone into
too. Millions in itr Some new cleo
trio headlight better than anything
yet-every car in America can't help
but have EN- and all that. He's put
ting half he's laid by into it, and the
fact is he almost talked me into get
ting father to finance me- enough for
me to go into it. Poor father! he's
financed me beforel I suppose he
would again If had the heart to ask
him. At any rate I've been thinking
1t over"
$50 have l." Fanny admitted. "He
seemed to be certain it would pay
twenty-five per cent the first year, and
only getting four on my little princi-
pal. People are making such enor-
nous fortunes out of everything to do
with motorcars, it does seem as if"
She paused. swell, 1 told him I'd
think it over seriously"
"We may turn out to be partners
and millionaires them" Anderson
laughed. II thought I'd ask Eugenes
advice"
II wish you would" said Fanny. "He
probably knows exactly how much
profit there would be in this"
Eugene's advice was to "go Slow"
he thought electric lights for automo-
biles were "cOming-sOme day." but
probably not until certain difficulties
could be overcome. Altogether he was
discouraging, but by this time his two
friends "had the fever" as thoroughly
as old Frank Bronson himself had it;
for they had been with Bronson to see
the light working beautifully in maj
chine shop. "Perfectw Fanny cried.
"And If 1t worked in the shop it's
bound to work any place else, isn't
it?"
Eugene would not agree it was
bound to"-yet, being pressed, was
driven to admit that ut might" and
retiring from what was developing In
to an oratorical contest, repeated
warning about not putting too much
into It,"
George Anderson also laid stress on
caution later, though the Major had
financed him" again, and he was Ego
ing in" "You must be careful to leave
yourself a margin of safety Fanny"
he said. You must be careful to leave
yourself enough to fall back on, In
case anything should go wrong"
Fanny deceived him. In the i'm
possible event of anything going
wrong" she would have enough left
to Give on" she declared, and laughed
excitedly, for she was having the best
time that had come to her since VIII
bur's death. Like so many women for
whom money has always been pro-
vided without their understanding
how, she was prepared to be thor
ough and irresponsible plunger.
ANDERSON, in his wearier way,
shared her excitement, and in the
winter, when the exploiting company
had been formed, and he brought
Fanny her Importantly engraved
shares of stock, he reverted to his pre-
diction of possibilities, made when
they first spoke of the new light.
1--WE seem to be partners, all right"
he laughed. Nov let's go ahead and
be millionaires before Isabel and young
George come home"
"When they come home!" she
echoed sOrrOwfully-and it was a
phrase which found an evasive echo
in Isabel's letters. In these letters
Isabel was always planning pleasant
things that she and Fanny and the
Major and George and brother
George" would do-when she and her
son came home. They'll find things
pretty changed, I'm afraid" Fanny
said. IF they ever do come home"
Anderson went over the next sum-
mer and joined his sister and nephew
in Paris, where they were living. lisa.
bel does want to come home" he tolo
Fanny gravely on the day of his re.
turn in October. "She's wanted to for
a long while-and she ought to COME
while she can stand the journey
And he amplified this statement, leay
Ing Fanny looking startled and solemn
when Lucy came by to drive him out
to dinner at the new house Eugene
had just completed.
He was loud in praise of the house
after Eugene arrived, and gave them
no account Of his journey until they
had retired from the dinner table to
Eugene's library, a gray and shadowy
room, where their coffee was brought.
Then, equipped with a cigar, which
seemed to occupy his attention, Am
Aerson spoke in a casual tone Of his
sister and her son.
II found Isabel as well as usual"
Ne said, "only I'm afraid as usual