Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1920-01-22
SYNOPSIS.

LILO uIdJOt .
t5s da%s 5sRss ss5 P;SIs sisd s %@;ss: as M Hs%Ss!
love would be bestowed upon c't he children ali
SsoISe XmheS;en &Inats en-; but lisp his up:
menfs as a mischief maker were quite in
lions.
CHAPTER III.-By the time George
g conceal his BELIEF that the xmbeSsones
tho world. At a bail given in his honor
when he returned from college. George
.aonopolized Lucy Morgan. . stranger and
queer looking duck" at whom no had
i Sssp Rss stssF. T ~ xa fun Eugene Sas !as z1sn Z
returning there to erect a factory o a. ana ITO to
vention. A wv" -
nirer Of ,Isabel's and they had been en-
gagged when Isabel threw him over BE-
cause Of so'ms youthful indiscretion n
CHAPTER v.-George makes rapid
progress IN his courtship Of Lucy.
CHAPTER v1s;.while driving with
Lue next day. George allows tho horse
Lucy in the snow. unhurt. although
George Is greatly annoyed.
CHAPTER v11.-George reveals intense
1aslike OF Morgan. whom no suspects Of
great establishment, sharply rebukes him.
cHAPTER .v11L-Home", on vacation.
George has a heart-to-heart tally with his
a aGS.nee; IN and Gn his ias s.st' rs 81 1ae h 6eItly
ootn ngure. George Is optimistic as to
CHAPTER Ix.-Hearfng ~rumozs CON.
s serni Rssd Lucy nns1h hsE s1itorswin psstica1 u
consent to a formal engagement Of mar
riaSe. but Lucy refuses.
CHAPTER x.--George becomes annoyed
at gossip which connects his mother'a
rebukes his Amt Amelia Tor her remarks
on the subject. Aunt Fanny Is sympa-
thetic but somewhat bewilderinE.
Of ideals of life. which they find surpris-
sngly different and part In something
MAJOR Anderson s at which dln Eugene Sise MOI ~
apimosity sts to his mother lR'A old, friend senG' A'
CHAPTER xIv:-About. a year after. his
fathers death George became furious
w wsra tai ns"' ABOUT Eugene n" and his
mother.
scene Wien hs visits NJ: 5ohnsen .
cosby old I11lg and GHd1 Is ORDERED 1di1r S;I from I'm
4 has acted foolishly and his modification is
complete.
CHAPTER .XVI.-Gcorge learns that
Morgan has planned to take Isabel on an
auto ride, and being by this time half in
zane through worry over the false situa-
j ton in which he imagines his mother is
placing herself, he orders Eugene from
the house when he calls
She hesirated, looking away. "I-of
course | don't agree with him in the
way he speaks of you, dear-except
about the angel! I don't agree with
some Of the things he implies. You've
always been unselfish-nobody knows
that hitter than your mother.
"And yet" George broke in, "you
see what he implies about me. Don't
you think, really, that this was a pref
ty insulting letter for that man to be
: asking you to hand your son?'
ooh, no." she cried. "You see how
for me to give it to you. 1t was brother
George Who"
! "Never mind that, now! You say
he tries to be fair and yet do you sup.
pose it ave occurs to him that I'm
doing my simple duty? That I'm doing
what my father would do if he were
! alive? That I'm doing what my father
would ask me to do if he could speak
1 from his grave out yonder? Do you
suppose it ever occurs to that man for
one minute that I'm protecting my
mother?" George raised his voice ad-
vancing upon the helpless lady fierce
ly; and she could only bend her head
before him. "He talks about my Will
how it must be beaten. down; yes,
and he asks my mother to do that lit
tie thing to please him! What for?
\ Why does he want me beaten by my
\ mother? Because I'm trying to pro-
tect her name! He's got my mothers
name banded up and down the streets
of this town till I can't step in those
streets without wondering what every
soul l meet Is thinking of me and of
4 my family, and now he wants you to
marry him so that every gossip in
town will say There! What did l tell
you? I guess that proves it's true!'
\ You can't get away from it; that's ex.
actly what they'd say, and this man
/ pretends he cares for You, and yet
| asks you to marry him and give them
! the right to say it. He says he and
| you don't care what they say, but l
I know better! He may not care-prob.
ably he's that kind-but you do. There
never was an Anderson yet that would
J let the ANDERSON name go trailing In
the dust like that! It's the proudest
name In this town. and it's going to
stay the %proudcst; and l tell you that's
the deepest thing in my nature-not
I'd expect Eugene Morgan to un'
A derstnnd-the very deepest thing In my
nptnrc Is to protect TINT name %" "