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Show THE WEEKLY REFLEX, KAYSYILLE, UTAH ward the Seventh wise showo.t fun-bodie- d, fat facrTundor tiara; a solid, cold usnn pink, , white-ho- t necklace; grr.It 0vt arms, and the rest of .r upholstered. As George nWr. broad stairway they M,,r,. V' "e the aunt and uncle ' he v, 1 ' 'vly By Booth TarMngton P0FSli pleased to point out to a gtl of town, as his appurteiuui way of relatives. At Dlost i the grandeur of the gaHBmHHBHEgBSBBBHaEBgHgEa B AinUr.,,' vej,,!-,",lnub- Posably, as to mutter, "Riffraff!" sibly he would haveTshouted It; and certainly most people believed a story that went round the town Just after Mrs. Ambersons funeral, when Georgle was eleven. Georgle was reported to have 'differed with the uDdertaker about the seating of the family; bis Indignant voice had become audible: "Well, who Is the most Important person at ray own grandmothers funeral? And later he had projected his head from the window of the fore-raomourners carriage, as the undertaker happened to pass. Riffraff There were people grown people they were who expressed themselves longingly: they did hope to live to see the day, they said, when that boy would get his (They used that honest word, so much bet- t face, conscious of Its Importance, but connection by marriage with the Am- in h! 'r! their nobility and never berson he and worn had and never A DARK-EYEpersuasive rather than arrogant, LITTLE BEAUTY OF NINETEEN. coat Mem- polished and glittering h. not without tokens of sufferings with- would wear a ewaller-tal- l were as solid as they stood. The Majors short white hair bers of his family had exerted their brilliant. Synopsis Major Amberson had made a fortuna In 1873 whan other people and would last. e mere loslnir fortunes, and the magnincenre of the Ambereons at elghty-nlnwas parted In the middle, like his Influence uselessly began then. Uajoi Amberson laid out a with roads and statuary, "development, grandsons, and in all he stood as conservative people seldom form rade and In the center of a tract, on Amberson avenue, built for himself CHAPTER iv. briskly equipped to the fashion as. the ical new habits, and old John wore his the most magnificent mansion Midland City had ever seen. When the major's suit broadcloth black of to Sunday daughter married young Wilbur Mtnafer the neighbors predicted that as George. young exquisite Isabel could never really love Wilbur all her lov would be bestowed upon the The hero of the fete, u Isabel, standing between her father the Amberson ball. The coat was children. There Is only one child, however, Qeorge Amberson Mlnarer, and with old to skirts the eyed little beauty upon knees; and her son, caused a vague amaze- square, hts upbringing and his youthful accomplishments as a mischief maker reached the top of the secoi fl,..,,. : called It a Albert "Prince John Quite in keeping with the most pessimistic predictions and ment In the mind of the latter. Her f was and here, beyond t well with but stairs; enough it, pleased was for George age. Just under forty, his considered It the landing, where two proud a thought of something as remote as CHAPTER II Continued. him, 'would they? He doesnt tended a crystalline punch bowl ton, the moons of Jupiter: he could not next thing to an Insult. know you, does be, mamma T wide room . so The had and filled, archways in a large lattice possibly have conceived such an age lour sister stole It for me !" George "That hasn't anything to do with 1L" ever coming to be his own : five years had the broad ball and the rooms on framed gliding silhouettes I v'u!tzen Instantly replied, cheeking the pony. Yes. It ha I mean: none of the was the limit of his thinking la time. the other side of the hall, where there already smoothly at It to the rastanej Sb stole It off our cloesline an gave Amberson see to Old John him, and family go Five years ago be had been a child were tables for whist. The Imported of "La Paloma It to me. on waited ballroom in the was in the act of orchestra they never have him come In their surfeited, not yet fourteen; and those five years Ion go get your hair cut! said house; they wouldn't ask him to, and local the third a but these floor, cello, leaving were an harp, delights hence he Five escorted by years abyss. the stranger hotly. Yah ! I havent probly .wouldnt even let him." man of commonplace ao.t would be almost twenty-four- ; what violin and flute were playing airs from middle-agegot any sister I" That Isn't what were talking he knew called "one of the I "be Fencing Master" In the hall, and I pearance. The escort hud a dry, DMj the T know you havent at home, about." ter than "deserts, and not until many oldergirls men. He could Imagine himself people were shouting over the music. face upon which, not ornamentally I mean the one Georgle responded. I bet, said Georgle emphatically, years later to be more clumsily ren- at twenty-foubut beyond that his Old John Mlnafers voice was louder but as a matter of course, 'here thats In Jail. I bet If be wanted to see any of em, dered as "what Is coming to him.) and refused the and more penetrating than any other. a business mans short mutaohe Taad powers staggered T dare you to get down off that hed haf to go around to the side Something was bound to taka him task. He saw little essential differ- because he had been troubled with his thin neck showed an Adam's apnie pony I down some dny, and they only wanted ence between thirty-eigdoor 1" years, heard but not conspicuously, for there and elghty-elgb- deafness for twenty-fiv- e Georgle Jumped to the ground, and ! to be there But No, dear, they Georgle heard nothand his mother was to him not his own voice hut faintly, and liked to nothing conspicuous about hmi. the other boy descended from the Itev. "Yes, they would, mamma! So what ing of this, and the yearners for his a womnn but wholly a mother. The hear It. "Smell o flowers like this al- - J ish, dim, quiet, he was Mr. Smiths gatepost but he descenddoes It matter If I say somepm to taking down went unsatisfied, while woman, Isabel, was a stranger to hef ways puts me In mind o funerals," he ed Inside the gnte. e I dare you him he' didnt like? That kind o their yearning grew the greater as the son; as completely a stranger as if kept telling his niece, Fanny Mlnafer, that gate, said Georgle, people, I dont see why you cant say happy day of fulfillment was longer he had never In hla life seen her or who was with him ; and he seemed to Tahl I dare you half wny here. anything you want to to em! and longer postponed. heard her voice. And it was tonight, get a great deal of satisfaction out of I dare you "No, Georgle, And you havent anwhile he stood with her, "receiving," this reminder. His tremulous yet striBdt these were luckless challenges, swered me whether CHAPTER III. he caught a disquieting glimpse dent voice cut through the voluminous you said that that for Georgle Immediately vnulted the dreadful he says you did. sound that filled the room, and he was of this strnnger whom he thus thing y fence and four minutes later Mrs. Well heard everywhere. said Georgle. Until he reached, the age of twelve encountered first for the time. Anyway, Mnlloch Smith, hearing strange noises, he said Youth somepm to me that made me Georgles education was a domestic cannot Imagine homance Presently Georges mortification was looked forth from a window; then mud. And upon this point he offered process; tutors came to the house, apart from youth. That is why the Increased to henr this sawmill droning screamed, and dashed for the pastors no further details; he would not ex- and those citizens who yearned for his roles of the heroes and heroines of harshly from the midst of the thickd study. Mr. Mulloeh Smith, that plain to hts mother that what had taking down often said ; "Just wait till plays are given by the managers to ening crowd: "Aint the dancin broke preacher, enme to the front made him mud was Mr. Smiths he has to go to public school ; then the most youthful actors they can find out yet, Fanny? Hoopla! Les push yard and found his visiting nephew hasty condemnation of herself: Your hell get It!" But at twelve Georgle among the competent. Both middle-age- through and go see the young women r mother Mng rapidly prepared hy Master ought to be ashamed, and wasj sent to a private school In the people and young people enjoy a folks crack their heels ! Start the cirto serve as a principal figure in "A woman that ! lets a bad boy like town, and there came from this small play- - about young lovers; but only cus?' Hoopsey-dals- y Miss Fanny h pageant of massacre.- It was with In. you of the Mlnafer, Georgle did not7 even con and Independent Institution no report, middle-agelively vetcharge people will tolerate a play great physical difficulty that Mr. sider excusing himself by was or even as middle-agealmost as her distressed eran, about of rumor, quoting Georgie'a getting lovers; young Smith munaged to give his nephew a these Insolences. will not come to see such a nephew George, but she did her duty was he that deto anything people thought chance to escape Into the house, for Isabel stroked his head. and managed to get old John through "They serve ; therefore the yearning still per- play, because for them middle-ageGeorgle was hard and quick, aud in were terrible words lovers are to a sisted, for not a very funny the press and out to the broad stairthough growing gaunt with use, you joke such matters remarkably Intense; but denr. From hts letter he doesnt seem feeding upon itself. one. to Therefore, bring both jthe way, which numbers of young people the minister, after a grotesque tussle, ndddle-ngetactful very but person, The and the young were now ascending to the ballroom. were people still yearners got him separated from his opponent yearning "Hes Just riffraff, said Georgle. when Georgle at sixteen was sent people Into his house the manager George began to recover from the degand shook him, "You mustnt say so, his mother away to a great "prep school.' makes his romance rs young as he radation into which this relic of early You atop that, you I" Georgle cried Youth will Indeed be served, and settler days had dragged him. What gently agreed. "Where did you learn "Now." they said brightly, "hell get,.lta rrofound fiercely, and wrenched himself away. those bad words he I Hell find himself of? It Instinct Is to be not only restored blm completely jvas a dark-a- s Where speaks I guess you dont know who I ami" among boys Just did you hear anyone use them?" I Important lu their home town as he BrorttfuNy amused but vaguely an-- 1 eyed Mttle bpaoty ot nineteen, very "Yes, I do know! the angered Mr. ' Well, Ive 'em heard serreval romance. So. la, and theyll knock the stuffing out gored by middle-age'Smith reported. I know who you are, I beside Unde places. his Amberof guess him when standing George he on his airs with mother, George puts and youre a disgrace to your mother! son was the first I evjr heard say em. them! Oh; but that would be worth waa disturbed by a sudden Impression, Your mother ought to be ashamed of Uncle George Ambervm said 'em to something to see! They were mis- coming upon him out of nowhere, so herself to allow " papa once. Tape didnt like It, but taken It appeared., for when Georgle far as he eould detect, that her eyes Shut up about my mother bein Uncle George was Just laughin' at returned a few months later he still were brilliant, that she was graceful ashamed of herself I" , . an then he aald 'em while he seemed to have the same and youthful lu a word that she was papa, stuffing. He Mr. Smith, exasperated, was unable wus had been deported by the authorities, romantically lovely. laughln." to close the dialogue with dignity. George Danced Well and Miss Morgan That was wrong of him," she aald the offense being stated as "Insolence He had one of those curious moments She ought to be ashamed, he repeat Seemed to Float but almost Instinctively he detected and profanity ; In fact, he had ed. given that seem to have neither a cause nor woman that lets a bad boy the lack of conviction In her tone. It the principal of the school Instruc- any connection with actual able part of this festival, and althougti like you things. was Isabels great falling that what tions almost Identical with those for- There was nothing In either her looks there were a dozen or more middle Hut Georgle had reached his pony ever an Amberson did seemed right to merly objected to by the Kev. Malloch or her manner to explain Georges unmen present, not casually to be aged and mounted. Before setting off at his comfortable feeling; and yet It Inher, especially If the Amberson was Smith. distinguished from him In genera! asaccustomed gallop he paused to Inter- either her brother or her son But he hud not got his creased, becoming suddenly a vague lie was probably the last per pect, George rupt the Rev. M&lloch Smith aguln. George. "You must promise me," ahe and those who counted In the big house at whom a stranger resentment, as If she had done some-thinIt were upon "You pull down your vest, you ole said Be dllghted, George responded would have glanced twice. It did not feebly, never to use those bad embittered by hts uppearnnee upon unrootherly to him blllygoat, you ! he shouted, distinctly. words again." and ered b arm notl enter Georges mind to mention to The fantastic moment passed and I the downtown streets driving a dogPull down your vest, wipe off your "I promise not to," he said prompt- cart at a criminal speed, making pe-- even while It lasted he was doing his w,th a flourlsh certainly, but with an J Miss Morgan that this was his father. chin an go to h 1" an Immediate destrlans retreat from the crossings, I duty gating two pretty girls with I ,mpre8S,vene8S lnsplred Partly by tbe I or to say anything whatever about ly and he Such precocity Is less unusual, even codicil under whispered as people say, aPPearanc ot the person to whom he him. his breath : "Unless I get and behaving himself as If he owned whora h bd grown-uIn children of the Rich, than most I aad warmly assuring them that he re- - offered u Part,y by hl being the hero mad at somebody I Mr. Mlnafer shook his sons band the earth This satisfied . te thla grown people Imagine. Ilowever, It code according to which,' lu his own and bls Diemberd them very well on assur- Partly by youtb' unobtrusively in passing, When Mr. George Amberson Mina--1 was a new experience for the Rev. sincere ess for wh manners are new have surprised them I fer came home for the holidays at I ance belief, he never told lies. ni take Uncle John home," b Malloch Smith, and left him in a state "Thats a good boy," she said, and Chrlstmastlde lu his sophomore year, in anybody but Georgle Mlnafer!" they are apt to be elaborate. The said In a low voice. "Then I gue 'of excitement. He at once wrote a he ran out to the yard, his punishment probably no great change had taken It seemed unnecessary, since he had little beauty Intrusted her gloved fin- - Ill go on home myself Im not note to George's mother, describing over. hls coatsleeve, and they moved great hand you know. place inside him, but his exterior waa I spent many bours with them no longer j gers to. Ketberthe crime according to his nephews I away than the J Good preceding August. They had As an Amberson he was already night, George." visibly altered. Nothing about him with eetlmony, and the note reached Mrs. them their parents and an uncle ,.As .he rondncted Morgan murmured a friendly enough George re-- 1 he and that had encouraged the of hla public any hope Btorjr character, Mlnafer before Georgle did. When he broy&b be ba toward the stairway from out town of ; and celved hls negll-George good night without pausing. on the conadventure Id the Rev. Malloch Smltha got home she read It to him sorrow passed the open doable doors of I oarlly he was not ashamed of the gave the parents the same as--1 front yard became a town topic. Many trary, the yearners for that stroke of fully. he had given the daughters, I a cardroonj, where some squadrons of afers; seldom thought about then,, Justice must yearn even more ltch-- l but murmured another form of greet- - older peop1e were Preparlag for ac- - at all, for he belonged, as most Amec Ingly: the gilded youth's manner had Dear Madam: Tour aon has causad a nnd- - leanlnK gracefully upon the can children do, to the mothers fane become polite, but hls politeness was Ing to the uncle, whom t,on painful dlatreaa In my household. Ha of a this he had never room, tall mada an unprovoked attack upon a little seen antelplece man, before. This per- of a kind which democratic people he was anxious not to ling' iiybut son George absently took note of as han3some' bIsbmannered nnd span- - wIth nephew of mine who la visiting In my d Miss found to hard bear. Morgan In the vicinity household, lnsuitsd him by calling him g a held k,lngly a duck. be to laughing felt names vicious Undergraduand falaahoods, stating that 0jd johllt whom he Cards were out for a ball in hls1 with that ates had not yet adopted "bird." It ladles of hia family wera In JatL 11a than duck, I grace. aud ten-- j honor, this of the pageant tried to make hla pony kick him, and was a period previous to that in which the Sharon girls uncle. The tall gen- De pn8hed brusquely through th nntry was held lu the ballroom of the a whan the child, who la only eleven years tlemon WW4 to would sophomore ..Motion have wtio r. old. while your aon la much older and thought of Amberson mansion the night after hls frt ca,cu,ns the Sharon uncle as a girls g wstoWM stronger, endeavored to avoid his Indigniml0S't, arrival. It was, as Mrs. Henry Frankftlwrea in tho .rotes. ties and withdraw he pursued bird,", or perhaps,. fanny-face lin Foster said ef Isabel's wedding, a ' him Into the lnvlosure quietly, ohttneos to done only with clrls -- I of my property and , bird." In Georges time every hub 1 their Amberson-stylWhen soon him. assaulted would taken be of big All brutally old man male was to appeared . o thing." be defined at pleasupon this scene he deliberately called Incitizens recognised as gentry received ure nd led hls stmwter Udj eel o . Yon as mean the to a Oeoree. with "duck words me, pro; but duck concluding sulting lnsM.td. . was not time , the and course so fl00r of cards, 1 did danc-cansht Thor their waa as which to h ." fanity, such "go spoken with admiring affection, as In dnck-- " heard not only by myself but by my wife and were away In the waltz. ing descendants. fei and ths lady who lives next door. 1 trust The orchestra and the caterer were dear on rgdahcerweTl;and-A!H-, auch a state of undisciplined behavior 'Thnti the contrary, "duck" Immy Uncle George, nonor- . flrt 0f the of brought from away, In the Amberson plied the may be remedied for the sake of ths rep1 speakers detachpersonal manuer. though this was really a ges- ment and utation for propriety. If nothing higher, of humorous superiority. An the family to which thla unruly child beture perhaps one more of habit than ma. George Indifferent amusement He looks as though everybody was what longs. an of ostentation for servitors of gayety strange feelings within him: felt George hls to know when, ought with she mother, him," said. ,ndefla It tatlon of soul, tender but as proficient as these importations a Georgle had muttered various interrgentle emphasis. Interrupted hls In--1 aeems to run In your family.' were to be nnd seemingly located In the UPP found as in and concluded nowadays she the the uptions, terchauge of courtesies with the If she had Intention any town. It sly was It the last of the great, nieces to part of bis diaphragm. reading he said: present him to the ca Pklppd over George harmlessly. dances that every"Hes an ole liar ! The stopping of the music duck, their uncle. This emof Well, I course, evan suppose most body talked about- - there were get"Georgle. you mustnt say llar. upon him like the waking to phasis of Isabels, though sPght. en- erybody does," he admitted out In i Clock; for Instantly six or pen ting to be so many people in town that abled George to Isnt this letter the truth? hls part perceive that she coi the country especially. the the no later than the next year there were "Well." aald Georgle, "how old am sidered the g calculating persons about - Besides Uncle duck a perGeorge Is in congres too many for "everybody to hear of Miss someone j to secure dances. George bad even such a ball as. the Ambersons. "Ten. tar from enabling him to Understand there!1 Fm look how older he says Well, George, with a garde- why. The duck parted his thick and j with one already established "Why? nia In hls buttonhole, stood with hls lougtsh black hair than a boy eleven years old. on the side; hls It ell. It s sort of a good thing In belle. It seemed. mother and the Major, embowered In tie was a forgetful-lookin- g "Thats true, aald Isabel. "He one and thlpg. way. For instance. Uncle Sydney does. Bqt Isn't some of It true, the big drawing room hla coat, though - It - fitted - a, ' Amberson and hls wife. Aunt Amelia, downstairs, to receive the guests; Georgle? middle-ageOld times starting figure, no product they havent much of anything to do Georgle felt himself to be la a difPuli Down Your Vest, You Olo Billy, and. standing thus together, the trio oCthls yearor of last year either. I with themselves over again! My Lordn- - . get bored To death offered a "picturesque example of good Observing ficulty here, and he was silent hls unfashlonnble only hair, around here, of course goat" Well nrob-hl- s looks persistent through three gene'GetTge. did you say what he says preoccupied tie and hls old coat ably Uncle Oeorgell have UneleSvth did? at him disrations. with you people glanced The Major, hls daughter and the Olympic George set him down as great (TO BE CONTLNUEP-ney appointed minister or Which one? taste thereafter, when they chanced hls grandson were of a type all a duck, and having thus or something like that to Russli THd you tell him to to Did you to encounter him, which meant noth: tall, One for Mamma. straight and regular, with Into th Prtralt t0k or make! and somewbera, Go F to to ,Ut0I?.ta thatll b in because sent I he Innocently dark eyes, short noses, good chins; Srtta'hta. say. Georgle, my small daughter Not pleasant when any of the rest of I front room to do some dusting ' Georgle looked worried for a mo- believed most grown people to be nec- and the grandfathers expression, no The Sharon girls passed on, taking i the futnlly to traveiim. . . , -- tanned ,. . .,1 ment loi.rer ; then he brightened. "Lie-te- essarily cross looking as a normal phe- less than the grandson's, was one of ' nomenon here mamma; grandpa wouldnt resulting from the adult faintly amused condescension. There wh' 1 o"' s;.- wipe his shoe on that ole story teller, state; and he failed to comprehend was a difference, however. The grand-sou'- s -- that the distasteful glances had any unfinished. would he? unlined young face had nothing to a d jdk guest waiting to t Implied: finls know personal bearing uiKn himself. If he to offer except this condescension; shake hls, hand. - Tills was Georges you "Georgle. you mustnt eiag' gracious ; hands to do?" Sbe quick Ju. "I mean: none of the Ambersons had perceived such a bearing he would the grandfathers had other things to grant - uncle, old John Mlnafer: It was too rmrtlr been have affected shlne Ilp n,ust so to do something lit with w wouldnt bae auythlng fur, prob- sny. It us a handsome, worldly old old Johns boast that In spite of hia his only stately Jowl furnished with an Ed-- J Exehang 1 D Zon-a- cr four-acr- ' 1111,1 r- , , great-nephe- Bt I w r come-upanc- rose-Mm- Minaf-evide- el ntly d r, I J ht t, out-Rld- - fleet-Ingl- grim-bearde- d Min-nfe- - d d d d I t d ' come-upanc- e, g orna' p, es, I Ordl-gent- ly 1 come-upanc- e; -- I n I Point-devic- queer-lookin- queer-lookin- g . gr,rt., "queer-lookin- Sf, .. -- e . T?,1 S, "V- ,,? qneer-lookln- g 4ts-for- mer xr , queer-lookin- g -- ir queer-lookin- I white-glove- d, gr.,d-enoug- h d l Am-herso- n queer-lookin- g n tZ 1 white-bearde- I J 1 1 n" cerateimiTrtr00 rbT,w'V I 4 |