River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-01-08


CHAPTER I.-Major ANDERSON had
made fortune in 1873 when other people
| were losing fortunes, and the magnificeIice
| Of the Ambersons began then. Major Am
| with roads and statuary, and in the centre
| Of q four-acre tract, on Anderson avenue,
| built for himself the most magnificent
mansion the Midland City had ever seen.
| CHAPTER H.-When the majors
laughter married young WILDER Mlnafer
the neighbors predicted that as Isabel
love would be bestowed upon the children.
George ANDERSON Minafer. but his up.
ments as a mischief maker were quite in
keeping with the most pessimistio predlc-
tons.
CHAPTER III.-By the time George
went away to college he did not attempt
| to conceal his belief that the Ambersons
| the world. At ball given in his honor
when he returned from college, George
monopolized Lucy Morgan. stranger and
mousy with her until he learned that
| queer looking duck" at whom he had
| been poking much fun. was the young
former resident Of Bigburg, and he was
| returning there to erect a factory and to
build horseless carriages of his own in
! vention.
CHAPTER Iv.-Eugene was an old adj
mirer of Isabeps and they had been en-
cause of some youthful indiscretion and
married Wilbur Minafer.
CHAPTER v-George makes rapid
progress in his courtship of Lucy.
CHAPTER VI.-whiIe driving with
Lucy. next day. George allows the horse
to get beyond control, and the animal
overturns the cutter. splitting George and
Lucy In the snow. unhurt. although
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dislike of Morgan, whom he. suspects of
financial designs on his uncle or grand
father. His aunt. Fanny .Minafer. to his
great establishment, sharply rebukes him.
CHAPTER vIII--Home on vacation.
George has a heart-to-heart talk with his
finances and his fathers failing health,
both figure. George is optimistic as to
Hs:;:.
CHAPTER Ix.-Hearing rumors con-
cerning Lucy and her suitors-in partcu-
consent to a formal engagement of mar
riage, but Lucy refuses.
CHAPTER X.-George becomes annoyed
at gossip which connects his mothers
name with Eugene Morgan, and rightfully
rebukes his Aunt Amelia for her remarks
on the subject. Aunt Fanny Is sympa-
thetic but somewhat bewildering.
CHAPTER xI.-The sudden death of his
father, following graduation. recalls
George from college.
CHAPTER xII.-Lucy and George talk
of ideals of life, which they find surpris-
ingly different and part in something
which very nearly approaches a quarrel
CHAPTER xIII.-At a dinner given by
Major Anderson, at which Eugene MOT
gan is a guest, George plainly shows ms
LIZ. ,Nth nrto ri
CHAPTER xIv.-About year after his
fathers death George became furious
when his Aunt Fanny told him people
were talking about Eugene and his
mother.
CHAPTER xv.-George makes a
scene when he visits Mrs. Johnson. u
her house. His uncle George tells him he
has acted foolishly and his modification is
complete.
CHAPTER XVI.-George learns that
Morgan has planned to take Isabel on an
auto ride. and being by this time half in
ton in which he imagines his mother is
placing herself. he orders Eugene from
the house when he calls.
Continued from last week.
xanny Mlnafer broke the long 81.
lence with sound from her throat. a
stified gasp; and with that great COM
panion Of hers, her handkerchief, re
tired softly to the loneliness Of her
own chamber. After she had gone
George looked about him bleakly, then
on tiptOe crossed the hall and went
into his own room, which was filled
with twilight. Still tiptoeing, though
he could not have said why, he went
across the room and sat down heavily
In a chair facing. the window. Out
side there was nothing but the dark
ening air and the wall Of the nearest
of the new houses. He had not slaDt
at all the night before and he had eat
en- nothing since the preceding day at
lunch, but he felt neither drowsiness
nor hunger. His set determination
filled him, kept him but too wide
awake, and his gaze at the grayness
beyond the window was wide-eyed and
bitter.
Darkness had closed in when there
was step in the room behind him.
Then someone knelt beside the chair,
two arms went round him with infinite
compassion, gentle head rested
against his shoulder, and there came
the faint scent of apple-blossOms far
away.
"YOu mustn't be troubled darling"
his mother whispered.
CHAPTER XVII.