Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1920-02-05

handled with gloves | tell you l wa
right, and 1 don't need any coddlinj
by people that think 1 wasn'ti\ Ant
l suppose you believe l was wrong no
to let Morgan see her that last nigh
when he came here, and she-she wal
dying If you do why in the name o.
God did you come and ask me? YOl
coGld have taken him inl She die
want to see him. She"
Miss Fanny looked startled. "Yor
think"
"She told me sol" And the tortured
young man choked. "She said-'just
once She said I'D like to have seer
him-just oncer She meant-to tell
him goodbye! That's what she
meant! And you put this on me, too
you put this responsibility on me
But I tell you, and l told Uncle
George, that the responsibility isn't
all mine If you were so sure I was
wrong all the time-when I took her
away, and when 1 turned Morgan out
If you were so sure, what did you
| let me do it for? You and Uncle
George were grown people, both of
you, weren't you? You were older
than I, and if you We're so sure you
were wiser than I, why did you just
stand around with your hands hanging
down, and let me go ahead? You
could have stopped it if it was wrong,
couldn't your"
Fanny shook her head. mo, George"
she said slowly. Nobody could have
stopped you. You were too strong,
! and"
"And what?" he demanded loudly.
"And she loved you-too we'll"
George stared at her hard, then his
lower lip began to move convulsivC!y
and he set his teeth upon it but coul(
not check it's frantic twitching.
He ran out of the room.
She sat still, listening. He had
plunged into his mothers room, but No
sound came to Fanny's ears after the
sharp closing of the door; and pres
emily she rose and stepped out into
the hall-but could hear nothing.
What interview was sealed away from
human eye and ear within the lonely
darkness on the other. side Of tha
door-in that darkness where Isahel@
own special chairs were and her Owl
special books, and the two great wa!
mt wardrObes filled with her dress,
I'd wraps? What tragic arguUoo
might be there vainlv striving to con.
fLte the gentle dead? "In Gods name,
what else could have dOne? For
his mothers immutable silence was
surely answering him as Isabel in life
would never have answered him, and
he was beginning to understand how
eloquent the dead can be. They can
not stop their eloQuence, no matter
how they have loved the living; they
cannot choose. And so, no matter in
what agony George should cry out,
"What else could l have doneY" and
to the end of his life no matter how
often he made that wild appeal, Isabel
was doomed to answer him with the
wiStful, faint murmur.
'Td like to have-seen him. Just |
once"
A superstitiOus person
might have thought it unfortunate that |
Fanny's partner in speculative indus
try as in Wilburs disastrous rolling
mills, was that charming but too hap
hazardous man of the world, George |
A p1hnrSnr1 To ~
timists who believe that if you put
money into a great many enterprises
one of them is sure to turn out q for
tune, and therefore, in order to find |
the lucky one, it Is only necessary to
go into large enough number of them. |
"YOu ought to have thought of my |
record and stayed out" he told Fanny, |
one day the next spring, when the af-
fairs Of the headlight company had |
begun to look discouraging. Things |
do look bleak, and I'm only glad you
didn't go into this COMPOUNDED thing
to the extent 1 did"
Miss Fanny grew pink. "But it must |
GO right" she protested eve saw
with our own eyes how perfectly it
worked out in the shop. 1t simply"
"Oh, you're right about that" Am
berson said. at certainly was a per-
feet thing-in the shop!"
"But think of that test on the road
when we"
"That test was lovely" he admitted.
1.-THE inventor made us happy with his
oratory, and you and Frank Bronson
and went whirling through theSnight
at speed that thrilled us. We must
never forget it-and we never shall.
It cost"
"But something must be DONE"
at must indeed My something
would seem to be leaving my watch at
my uncles. Luckily, you"
The pink of Fanny's cheeks became
deeper. "But isn't that man going to
do anything to remedy it2 Can't he
try to-"
"He can try" said ANDERSON. "He
Is trying, in fact. I've sat in the shop
him try for several beautiful
"But you must make him keep on
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