Cleveland County herald., 1920-01-15

q risky job for the sake of his aunt, poor old silly Fanny Mihafer. Eugene didn't care what risks Georgie took, or how much decent stuff he had in him; l; nothing that Georgie would ever do in this world or the next could change Eugene Morgan's feeling toward him.
 If Eugene had wished, he could cas- fly have taken George out of the nitro- glycerin branch of the chemical works Always interested in apparent impos- abilities of invention, Eugene had en- cOuraged many experiments in such gropings as those for the discovery of substitutes for gasoline and rubber; 1; 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 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 it become part of his percep- tions long enough for it to prove to him that it was actually a possibility. Then he half started with disgust that he should be even idly considering such a thing over his last cigar for the night, in his library. "Nor' And he threw the cigar into the empty fire place and went to bed.
 His bitterness for himself might have worn away, but never his bitter ness for Isabel. He took that thought nothing George could do would ever change this bitterness of Eugene. Only Georges mother could have changed it.
 And as Eugene fell asleep that night thinking thus bitterly of Georgie, Georgie in the hospital was thinking of Eugene. He thought of Flu 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 grandfather had been the most strik- ing figure of success in the town: "As rich as Major Anderson '" they used to say. Now it was Eugene. 'If I 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 see things hum !" And the boarders at the table d'hote spoke of 'the Morgan Place" as an eighteenth-century Frenchman spoke of Versailles. Like his uncle, George had perceived that the Morgan Place" was the new Am person mansion. His reverie went back to the palatial days of the mansion, in his boyhood when he would gallop his pony up the driveway and order the darkey stablemen about, while they whooped and obeyed, and his grandfa ther, observing from a window, would laugh and call out to him: "That's right, Georgie. Make those lazy ras- calls jump!" He remembered his gay young uncles, and how the town was eager concerning everything about them and about himself. What a clean, pretty town it had been! And in his reverie he saw like a pageant before him the magnifcence of the Amber sons-itS passing, and the passing of the Ambersons themselves. They had been slowly engulfed without knowing how to prevent it, and almost without knowing what was happening to them. The family lot in the shabby old quar- ter, out at the cemetery, held most of them now; and the name was swept altogether from the new city. The people would pass, and the new people that came after them, and the next new ones, and the next-and the next
 He had begun to murmur, and the man on duty as night nurse for the ward came and bent over him.
 Did you want something?"
 "There's nothing in this family busi- ness," George told him confidentially. 'Even George Washington is only in a book"
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 Eugene read report of the accident in the next mornings paper. He was on the train, having just left for New York, on business, and with less leis- ure would probably have overlooked the obscure item:
 LEGS BROKEN.
 G. A. Minafer, an employee of the Ak ers Chemical company, was run down by Tn automobile yesterday at the corner of Tennessee and Main and had both legs | broken. Minafer was to blame for the l accident, according to Patrolman F. A. | kaX, who witnessed the affair. The auto- | mobile was a small one driven by Herbert Sottleman of 2173 Noble avenue, who stat sd that he was making less than four niles an hour. Mnafer is said to belong | o a family formerly of considerable prom hence in the city. He was taken to the City hospital, where physicians stated ater that he was suffering from internal injuries besides the fracture of his legs. out might recover.
 Eugene read the item twice, then tossed the paper upon the opposite seat