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Show THE WEEKLY REFLEX. KAYSVILLE. UTAII a great trouble. something this time so yon wont feel tell never she wants you to k ayv' cant oh, I yes, cross, but I dunno. " u kind! Thats Well do. what she what theyll Th, She sighed, closed her eyes, and was It. To be kind." "Does silent, while Eugene, seated In the stiff, 'A "She from wants you to be klru her, table across the chair She nods u watched her profile, thought himself the voice. and this. Yes; it must he that himself called and an Idiot, rMhf Sh Eugene Morgans feeling toward shim. heart. However, the And a? the silence con- - a very fine lady. vt-r.If Eugene hjod wished, he rould pus- - Ail the way to New York it seemed other names. expert of whom they spoke did not get the Impassive woman In is so anxious for you to u, ltV Into the pupers ns a consequent of Jly have tufteri George mit of the nitre- - to him that Isabel was near him. and tinned, and remained impassive, he. She hopes and hopes ynu M ,r''aH the hotel his being .blown up. although his dully life J glycerin branch of the chemical works. lie wrote of her to Lucy from what had led him to j- one else wants to speak to ,, u I0 wonder to : began In the next night was certainly a continuous exposure to Always Interested apparent Irrqm-had brought him s a man. He says What a fool. I saw an account of the accident he such that risk. Destiny has a constant pas- - j sihilities of Invention, Eugene hud and caused I dont want to spenk absurd to back this place for the incongruous, and it was j cottraged many exjierlments Intsueh .f George Mlnufer. Via sorry, though :,ny ot womabsurd this be hlin to watching ph Georges lot to manipulate wholesale I, groping us those for the discovery of die paper states that It was plainly an In brief: chair? want j In a taking a nap quantities of terrific and volatile ex- -' substitutes for gasoline and rubber; Ills own fault. I suppose It may havemean by it? He This man who has 'IIIhe the hat devoid fall withheld attention . mood the httd of In n a his result ns low laid my and, though i, (if plosives safety, and to la BY Mrs in he is a friend of thp interest not had the slightest J by an accident so connunnplucc and In- - information from Klnney,he had re- p ,g upon the item that I thought of his J which BOOTH or her in teeth, Horners naps-struck the a ,, then a great deal on ti.e way here, that It was a comedy. ' ntly bought from the eider Akers consequent iff? - fist. unthe revealed T TARKINGTON dont want by I ii to had reserved for him the 'final In- - substantial quantity of stock on tieIt seemed to me that I had never seen "ere being slightly o n ny so constantly, conscious parting df her lips, as her one else, I tell you' suit of riding him' down under the condition that the chemical cmnpai, her more distinctly hreathingLhecaine heavier. innately, "If sh 1Tr wheels of one of those Juggernauts at should esluTiTii.1i l.nTTaVyoq know, ilihiktngof hi m his breath to here was he sit How nought me going admire to long He Intended make more; to buy is not very apt Miarp'v, Copyright by Doubluday, Pag A Company. which he had once shouted "Git n ratory. ahituselGaudat lfr uomrprncn Uaitf i? Akcrs'w,tts Tii(Xoiix ro ptiase'Ttin pnPT my nr (iiiYi.TinWt'yer,iichri CHAPTER XXII Continued. slumbers? It struck him that to make his mind so easily choice for Georgia's undoing was not a u word from Eugene would for Ids recovery. l,. st tspeniV s 6 In nnd the hy the, the picture complete he ought to be ous a thing as" true? He j mated the letter, Mg und swift and momentous car, placed George almost anywhere It At this lie laughed. Imt not very a 'could! as Eugene mnnufarfured ; It was a spe- ehcmlcul works. The possibility Jn-- r morning's mall rerclvtslone from Lucy si oolng flies away from her with j heartily, end walked slowly to the cimen of the hustling little type that edged Itself Into Eugenes mind; that written a few hours lifter his depar- palm-lea- f fan. . Mrs. Horner spoke hing-closed house, let. ting her bending over a rose wan Hooding the own voice: Did you get Mjlln Horners Mrs. It lips of let his perce p ture from home. She Inclosed the Item become part parted country, tin cheapest, is. he hush, and a shad- more pensive than commonest, hardiest little car ever tloiis long enough for it to prove to he had read on the train and wrote: ngaln abruptly, and became com- lsfactory?" she asked, "t ihe most pensive garden lady In any made. him that It was actually n possibility. pressed ; her shoulders moved a little, hope It wasnt like that nttlPr tl 04 I thought you might not see It. . . Next day. Victorian engraving. her small when you was cross In The accident took place upon a Sun- Then he half started with disgust that "I have seen Miss Fanny and she then Jerked repeatedly; Vendo-nnIt happened Hint tills same and the couldnt get anything for she be chest gasped, should he u heaved; on downtown crossing, evet) , Idly considering has got him put into a room by himday morning, beor No, no," he said hastily, with the streets almost empty, und no such a thing over his last cigar for the self. Oh. jMtor Rides compressed Ups relaxed to a slight came the sublet of u chance conver- reason g was different to move, then No! And tie I have been It was i interest In the world for such a thing night, In his library. began contortion, of so constantly thinking sation between Eugene and his old to and bringing forth Indistin- ing. He had gone out for his threw the cigar Into the empty fire- his mother and It seemed to me that I happen. friend Kinney, father of the He paid her, went to walk, and he was place and went to bed.. have never seen her more distinctly. guishable mutterlngs. Fred. The two gentlemen found them- Sunday morning she spoke in a loud, husky thence of an automobile at the very train for home. for himself might Itow lovely she was nnd how she Ills bitterness Suddenly thinking selves smoking In neighboring leather moment when voice : did he so seem to move through the little enr striicK him worn away, hut never Ills bltter-- , loved him chairs beside a broad window nt the him ; he was world of dream-stufness for Isabel. He took that thought Lopa Is here!" thinking of a shiny If Lucy had not written this letter t,. 1(, club, ufter lunch. and a charming figure stepping to lied with hint and It was true th. t Eugene might not have done the odd "Yes," Eugene said dryly. Thats that he was not' more than Mr. Kinney had remarked that he Into It, nnd of the quick gesture of a nothing George could do would ever thing he did that day. He was an ad- what you said last time. I remember other men, nnd if he o,.;, (,eieT ex(Mcted to get his family established w hite glove toward the chauffeur, mo- change this bitterness of Eugene, Shes your control I think what he had believed, t ,g, he had Lopa. Only venturer; if he had lived in the six-at tin seashore by the Fourth of July, tioning him to go on. believed it for no loom t Tti.m a ao. George heard a Georges mother could have changed It. teenth century he wonld have sailed you said. and, following n train of thought, he shout, but did not look up, for he could Im Lopa, said the husky voice. ment o And as Eugene fell asleep th.il the unknown new sous, but having wliut hold bad-hor paused and chuckled. "Fourth of July not Imagine anybody's shouting at him, night, other human bein .o reality? of been born In the latter part of the Im Lopa herself. thus any thinking bitterly reminds me, he said. "Have you heard and he was too You mean Im to suppose youre His credulity engrossed In the ques-tlc- Georgle, Georgle In the hospital was nineteenth, when geography was a what that Oeorgie Mlnafer Is doing? Was It Lucy?" 11a could not de- thinking of Eugene. lie thought of Eunot Mrs. Horner now? behe had thought) with his matter, o)n tha( fairly No, I havent." said Eugene, and Ills cide, nnd his lack of decision In this Never was Mrs. Horner! the voice was he, and not the a!h..tl 'Lopa. and of the Major; they come an explorer In mechanics. But gene Morgan friend failed to notice the crispness qf matter declared, speaking undeniably from who had suggested the won! amber."' probably superinduced a lack seemed to he the same person for the fact thut he was a the utterance. of decision in another, more presslngly awhile, hut he mnnged to disentangle business man" ns well as an adven- Mrs. Ilorners Ups hut with such con- Going ovep the mo.'iPing, "Well, sir," Kinney chuckled again, vital. At the second and louder slumt them und even to understand why he turer did not him from having a viction Uiat Eugene, in spite of every- facts of his expericm-- he tound that keep "it limits tile devil! My hoy Fred told he did look up; and the car was almost 'hud confused them. thing, began to feel himself In the Mrs. Horner, or the in lfls brnltj, because Long ago lira ibduision of me iilauit It yesterday. lies a friend on him; imt he could not make tip tils grandfather had been the most strik- queer spot ' Lopa." had business men tire as suscep- presence of a third party, who was Mrs. norner known otf this young Henry Akers, son of F. mind If the charming little figure he even none an less In As the of Kueoes.s Individual, n the town; to to are. told figure think bell as him tible such of ing adventurers and of a spots 1 Akers of the Akers Chemical comp- had seen was Lucys nnd he could not rich ns Two weeks after Isabels death, Eu- though she might be another edition color, nrid that being furnished with Major Amberson ! they used to seems (his young Akers asked nmke up his mind whether to go hck any,-It on urgent busi- of the apparently somnambulistic Mrs. these scientific data, he had leaped -sny. - Now It was Eugene- "If-- 1 had gene was in Fred If he knew a fellow named Mlnn-fer- , ward or forward; these questions he- - Eugene would he ness nnd found that the delayed ar- Ilorner. "Never was Mrs. Horner or to the conclusion that he spoke with Morgan's money, because he knew Fred had always came entangled tn his mind. Then, bear the workmen at the rival of a steamer cave him a day vvlth anybody hut Just Lopa. Guide. Isabel Amberson ! lived here, and young Akers had heard still not being able to decide which of chemical You mean youre Mrs. Horners or, "If Eugene Mor- - nothing to do. Ills room at the- hotel works; For a mompnt he hud helieved that some way that Mlnafer used to he an two ways to go. he tried to go Doth gun had hold of tills place youd tee bud become Intolerable; outdoors was guide? he asked. was there, believed that she Isabel old family name here, and wns sort of and the little car run him down. It Your guide now, said the voice was close to him, entreatiug was Intoleraeverything intolerable; curtons about It. Well, sir, yon re- was not moving very rapidly, but it ble. It seemed to him that he must with emphasis, to which was Inconhim to Tie kind " But with member this young Oeorgie sort of dis- went all the way over George. You this recollection a added a low laugh. gruously strange agitation after IiIh giand father's He was conscious of gigantic vioappeared, came here once before. Lopa remem- came upon him. After all, had she death, and nobody seemed to know lence; of roaring und Jolting nnd conbers. not spoken to him? If his own umuch whnt hud become of him cussion ; of choking clouds of dust, Yes so did Mrs. Horner. nknown consciousness had told the though I did hear, once or twice, that shot with lightning, about his heud; overlooked his Implication, and Lopa unknown eonsclousnw psychics he whs still uround somewhere. Well, he heard snapping sounds ns loud as continued quickly: You build. Build how to make the picture of the prA sir, hes working for the Akers Chem- shots from a small pistol, and was brown-eyethings that go. You came here once ty lady, ical company, out at their plunt on the stabbed by excruciating pains In his and old gentleman on this side, he hadnt the true Isabel oh, indeed her Thomasvllle road. legs. Then he became awure thnt the spoke to you. Same old gentleman very soul ! called to him out of hi$ lie paused, seeming to reserve some- ntarhlne wns being lifted off of him. now. He tell Lopa hes your own true memory of her? here thing to be delivered only upon Inquiry, Beople were gathering In a circle no, he says father. Hes grandfather And as the train roared through the and Eugene offered him the expeeted round hint, gabbling. . father." your darkened evening he looked out bHis forehead was bedewed with the question, hut only after a cold glance . Whats his appearance?" eyond bis window, and saw her u be through the nose glasses he had lately sweat of anguish, nud he tried to wipe "Howr had seen her on his journey, a few found It necessary to udopt. "What off this dampness, hut failed. He could does "What he look like?" does he do I" days ago an ethereal figure flying bnot get his arm that far. flnel White beardr but not eside the Very train, but now it seemed te "Nev mind," a policeman said; and Klmiijf tnughed and slapped the nnn long beard. He says some one else him that she kept her face toward bli exof his chair. "Hes a George could see above his eyes the wants to speak to you. See here. window with an Infinite wistfulnes. pert 1" skirts of the blue coat, covered with Lady. Not his wife, though. No. Iflthadbeea . . . To be kind! He was gratified to see that Eugene dust nnd sunshine. Amb'lunce here In Very fine lady Fine lady, fine lady ! Isabel, was that what she would hare was surprised. If not. Indeed, a little a minute. Nev mind trytn to move Is it my sister? Eugene asked. Sturt led. said? If she were anywhere, and could " any. You want em to send for some T No. ' She Is shaking her Sister come to him through the Invisible wiH, "Hes what?" special doctor?" head. She has brown She hair. pretty whnt would be the first thing ahe "Hes an expert on "No." Georges lips formed the word. Is fond of She some one who would say to him? is iyou. Doesut that bout the devil! Yes, sir! "Or to take you to Borne private knows-ybivery well, but she is not Young Akers told Fred that thlN hospital?" Ah, well enough, and perhaps t sister. She Is your to answer anxious very the "Tell them to tuke me," he Bald George Mlnafer had worked like n tterly enough, he knew "say something to you very anxious. that houn-doever since he got started faintly, to the City hospital." question I To be kindfond of ; Very anxious you to talk very ! out at the works. They have a speetul "A right." to you. Very glad you came here oh, Georgle A smnltlsh young nmn in a duster A red cap at the station, way off from plant for very glad ! the muln plant, o course In the tldgeted among the crowd, explaining when he arrived, leaped for hla btfc What Is her name? Psu woods somewhere and George Mlnn-fer- and protesting and a strldent-volreabandoning another which theYesstb, the "Name, voice been working there, und lately girl, his companion, supported pis repeated, and man porter had handed him. seemed to rumjnate. car waiName hard to Mist they put him In charge of It. He overdeclaring to everyone her Morgan. Yessuh. You' get always very hard for Lopa. tin front the station fer you, Mist blw sees shooting oil wells, too, and shoots willingness to offer testimony In any Name. She wants to tell me her name em himself, sometimes. They arent court of law that every blessed word suhl" No, Just to Taka Hi Hand Gently." to tell you. She wants you to under- gan, on allowed to carry It the railroads, he said was the God's truth. And people in the crowd about 0 see Isabel once more, hear her voice stand names are hard to make. She "It's the fella thut hit you, the poyou know have to team It. Young turned to stare, as he once more; that he must find some says you must think of something that gates Akers says George rides around over liceman said, looking down on George. through, whispering, Thats Here the voice way to her, or lose his mind. Under makes a sound. the bumpy roads, sitting oh as much as 1 guess he's right; you must of b'en the neat chauffeur libstow to seemed this a I comhe had with to put invisan hundred pressure Blinkin' gone, of question three about soniepn or other. Its quarts at the door of the touring car ible presence and to receive an anplete scepticism, to a My Lord! Talk about romantic tum- vvunnerfvtl the damage them little ma. soldier In whipcord. of whom he had heard wild accounts swer. "A little sound or a big sound? some chines can do youd never think It bles If he gets Mown now, home not Til go IIarry;JT, from the wife of a business acquaint- She says It niijjbt be a little sound or day he wont have a bigger drop, when hut I guess tney atut much case ngln when he had got in. Eugene, ' a ance. big sound. She says a ring oh, to the he comes down, than he's already had I this fella that wns drlvln it." City hospital." The experience had been grotesque, Bopa knows! She means a bell! Thats You bet your life they aint no case Dont It beat the devil Young Akers Yes, sir," the man returned. and he came away with an encourag- It, a bell. said hes got all the nerve there is In on me!" the young man In the dusier She said she exPwV. there. Lucys Eugene looked grave. ing message from his father, who had Does the world. Says lie gets fulr salary, agreed, with great bitterness. He entm; before you w come there youd mean her nnme is Belle? failed to Identify himself satisfactorand I should think he ought to! Seems and stood nt Georges feet, addressing home. Not quite. Her name Is ily, but declared that everything was to me Ive heard the average life In hltn heatedly: I'm sorry fer you all longer." She did?" "on a higher plane in his present Perhaps, he suggested, she means that sort of work is somewhere around right, and 1 dont say I aint. I hold MYcs, sir. Min state of being, nnd that all life was that she was a belle. four years, and agents dont write any nothin against you, hut tt wasnt any stared. I suppose Mr.d. Eugene "No. continuous She and exmore my fault than the stntehouse! Mrs. Insurance at all for says she thinks you know progressive. bad, he sa B Ilorner spoke of herself as a what she means. She says you must fer must be pretty he Wasnt goin' a step over eight miles understand perts. Hardly T I sir. Yes, Me - "No," said Eugene. "I suppose not." an hour! I'm perfectly willing to say psychic; but otherwise she seemed think of a color. Whnt color? Again to sir." get well, though, Bopa addressed the unknown, but this anu according to Patrolman F A. "ddly unpretentious and matter-of- Kinney rose to go. "Well. Its a Im sorry for you though, nnd sos the his lever Into high speed, ( thing-- pretty odd, I mean lady with me. We're both willing to pretty funny went through the heavy tra -ccrlor of her some and"! suppose tr won M be , siry thnt much, bur thnfsnlt, underthaj fast, faithful beast master for old Fanny Mlnafer stand!" its knew and way about, No. She says her color is If he blew up. Fred told me that George's drawn cveflds twitched; miles an hour, m mater u said to belong today. He used the telephone booth in did not spea light rcsit-i- l a light color and you can see of haste. Eugene the hospit Its "lr",OTS' In some !,H He,, Util, S "' ,"k " gtmiop apartment- house, ' theyre living reached until they and said Oeorgie supports her. He was on the two protesting motorists, atul City hospital, where physicians tited polntnient; and he laughed feebly at through It. Fanny met him in the uPPf hint Htid he was later that from wondered what the group Amber?" he stiid, and was startled, self, internal going to study law, but- couldn't earn the old Imperious spirit within hin. tnturtes besides th Buffering of l.la and. took him to an dor, fraeture legs, of men lu that mahogany apartment for Mrs. norner, with Her ' enough that way to take, care of tllckered up tn a single word. Lying but ndsiit recover. eyes still He stopped on the would think If they knew what lie was closed, clapped her hands, and Funny, so he gave It up. Freds wife on his hack in the middle of the street, the startled ; for, from the " axen tS . Eugene rand the Item twice, then doing. Mrs. Ilorner had changed her,vof,e cried out In delight: told him all this. Says Fanny doesnt where lie was regarded by an inerem-Inseemed tne it almost the pillow, Yes! She says do hnythlug but play bridge these! public as an unpleasant curiosity, tossed the paper upon the opposite sent address, hut he found the new one, who she of Isabel herself were looking Ms nnd of to nnd be from sat front a a he word this compartment, somebody niece amber. to too Got for looking resenib a purporting clearly spoke days. Amber! high playing Amber! ut of the window. His feeling toward of kirs talked to him and made an aj- - Thats It I Site says you understand never before had the awhile nnd lost more than she wonted i mouth tilled with dust, and from lips tween mother and son been her name is from a bell and to tell Georgle about, ami borrowed smeared with blood. .Georgle was rhtinged not- a jot by his polntnient for a sitting at five o'clock. nnd Eugene knew that Mrs. Horner it paired in the door- - front amber. She Is It was a word which Inter- - human pity for Georgle- human palp tHdttie from old Frank Bronson. Iald and laughing once seen It thus startlingly. hltn bark, though. Dont know how stl-- the nIi coman. When ttie amhu- - nud injury. He thought of Georgte's way, a wan and unenterprising look- - waving a lace handkerchief at me bedivest himself of no bitterns cause she Is pleaded. Freds wife heard It. Women do hear lance clanged away, he turned to a She says I kind to Georgle. d fellow patrolman who had joints) hltn. have made you know who it is. the darndest things!" too. was startled, George This was the strangest moment of "Funny what he says to the little on-"They do," Eugene agreed. a white hand in a .queer ge an1 Well, I'm off tq the store, said Mr. that done the damage. Thats all ho Eugene's life, because, while It lasted, forbidding, the Kinney briskly; yet he lingered. "I did call hltn nothin else at all and his arm fall back upon llhoM as dea hadtoJid leanTto You must have thought mipprrae weR alt have to club In and the eras had broke both hhr legs fer had together ; he had put the blame vis! or. on the sou. and tt stayed there. all !" "Oh. you been hece before." she said, speak to him. keep old Fanny ont of the poorhouse him and Though within "ten wanted you to come," he sa He hegnu to think poignantly of Isa- - In a thin .voice, not unmusical. I wasnt here then. What was It? - minutes he If he does blow up. Front all I hear 1 raedoubted It. he believed tt I could ask you to to " llft(4 bet. He- - closed Tils eyes and saw her olteet you. , Quite a time ago, want then. Tliffruff!' Its usually only It question of time. besid sat who But . Lucy, as she had been long ago. He saw the it?' His elbows pressed hard to ne u:r, They say she hasnt got anything else upon the ineffable eyes from him brmvn-eyebrown-haireCHAPTER XXIII. "Yes, quite a long time." to depend on." proud, gentable, and, his head between his and shook her head. No, j I recollect becau-k- tle, laughing girl he had known, tshen I recollect you hands, he leaned I suppose not. at his hand gently!" forward, first he came to had n was about town, hesiont Just Well I wondered boy George disappointed'. Eugene's feeling Kinney Anyway you was the commonplace figure in staring r. the She was radiant. " radial Kincros-s.of the ne State college, remembered kind of She laughed faintly. I was wondering why you not been altered by his talk with tated. What does she wish to say for But Eugene notha. he yl ns he had remembered wt he ten In I club 'Tm If thousand window, though seemed so." Eugene to mer hadnt thought of finding something ney the sorry ' filled the room. He knew around your works for him. You used somewhat disturted. Kinney had rap- - times before the look she gave him said, 'Shall we She is happy because you know been true at last to his new Georgle i when her brother (Jcorge Introduced All right." she assented, dropped her. to he syeh a tremendous friend of the resented Georgle as No she is troubled. Oh a that through him she had family I thought perhaps you of at least In spots a Oeorgie who was him to her nt a picnic; It was "tike iuto the leather chair, with her back to Sreat . trouble ! Something she wants boy under shelter course I know he's a queer lot I know proving that decent stuff had been hid huxel starlight" he had written her. In the shaded window. You better set to tell you. She look wistful n more. so wants to much do-1 a poem, afterward. lie remembered down, too, I reckon. I hope youll get tell In him; in fact, a Georgle who was hes you. She wants Lopa to tell you. THE END-said Eugene. Ing rather a handsome thing In taking, his first call at the Amberson inanition, to offer him." a riky Job' for the sake of his aunt, and what a great personage ahe "I suppose not," Kinney returned poor old silly Fanny Mlnafer! Eugene seemed, at home in that magnificence; and friendly. He rethoughtfully, as he vent on, "I dont didnt rare what risks Georgle took, or and yit bo gay first time he had danced. the know that I would myself. Well, well how much decent stuff he had in him ; membered old wait song the and with her in ever do, probably see his name In the papers nothing that Georgle would world or the next could change - gnu to beat In his eara and In bis some day if he stays with that Job!" 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