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Show THE WEEKLY REFLEX, KAYSY1LI.E, CTAII would tuftr, and lie axenue met Auiltersnn Itoulevarii here ?;ail been downtown only In a dosed a nn obtuse angle. nn) the removal of T k ut hls h currlage. He had not realized the great chance.. 1 he streets wore thunderous, n vast energy hoaxed under the un!xer-n- l 'j niflc iv. I tejttiue ' of d.lUtlne'S. DeFSiME waited e through tl.e begrimed crowds, of lurrying strangers and saw no fare that lie remembered. ' Gr-anumbers of faces were eun of a kind he did not er to have seen; they remember By BOOTH TARKINGTON were partly like the old type that ' CopyHrfct br roubl!r. Pr Corap nr. ins boyhood knew, and partly like OjITV-JV2x '2x 2' .JV''-2- ' -V- - wv.- N ag, O' O' QxA- ryf types lie knew abroad lie saw German eyes with American wrinkles at CHAPTER XIX Continued. their corners; lit- s,tw- Irish exes unit las you're eva.hsi, and curious about the deed to her huL nut xx Itli Lhet,rfuUi";'!. j. poll'.i ex is. Koumn eyes, t0 I sentle! Mm-cure don't i!ri,,,l to be he said to hU nephexv. You're Well Mirxixo, borge you mil, es T Saxox, A month nfter her dath he talked handled with ploves! I tell you 1 eyes of l.o'i.bardx. eyes alix is absolutely sure it wasnt among her pa For inj p.nt Im a little lo p eves one room, Iktk.in I yes, Scandimghtricht. and don't need anv coddling pers? abruptlj150 Fanny , old aiidJiH aceustoiiK-- to fall baik llting'imii xxith a desk exes all -her her Amen at found navian And1 queer by I that eagerly think ,Dd people wasn't! I. ilmilj Mother didn't have any papers," oil !.( for Mlppihs t M at In the'-aw who look can columns lie -wluchl t believe offigureswdth suMtMvriu xx a ".-N.ofr All adding llli ljfiu;jll J .it nil Ijcjis rung uuLUeurgiold him g colljejd wnv no 5t ,r tirrvm'Tr she had covered several sheets of pa- - to let Morgan see her that last night she oxer had to do with business xxns xxi;!Mu't Mirxixmz, and i. d it tan Foil'll .bus Ml tile piopie were nil when lie come here, and die she was to deposit the checks per. an n a ''lilet inindud dollar gave ion year grandfather t the moke loist thtoiigh xxhnli George ! You startled me. dying. If you do. xxhy in the name of her and then xxnte her oxxu clowks An eongrx nmimii ran nl limit r he In ax x K t h knockfor 1 beg your pardon llox not limed did .. come xx. and you me? You ask s them. soie-jGod against pretty 'tur of gelling tlo-t- "I g said think. ! could be didnt have taken him in upon the new skyst.apcrs huskily. lug." she did The dehd to the house xvns never Moll Jots nlld I hear troln all svimxl h titled hx tienrlx i, ml She turned In her chair and looked xvnnt to see him. . She t So rtcui.ied, Amherson said thoughtfullmutter's about settled Miss Fanny looked startled. "You something t him solicitously. Sit down, George, Impeti hug. tlmusii lute nml !i n e for mo Hut y.. "lxe been oxer to the cour house you ,1 rota-a bll!U lit - would be with there wormtl wont you?" think to sec. I liiink it would be Ju- -t as ,X"1 e had a oor naming for making on about some a eon to wanted "She I me laughing told pan And so! tort "No,. just the ured ell to get him to execute one now In own xxnx. but you're only u lux the of store, or adxtnure "I could hear you walking up and young man choked. "She said 'just your fax or. Id speak to him ulmut jour department nil, and the ttitY of the old tod. ide -, tin aa roiu apt(barging down In your room," said Fanny. You once. She said Td like to have seen it." pei Imps Is in you. Itll come out and do someof the streets ami lut Infrewere doing It ever since dinner, anil him Just once! She meant to tell lf George sighed. "I doat think Id th ng. Ill never foiglxe about ir.itin l eav ! It seems to me youre at It almost him That's what she bother him a'bout t ; the house is mine, that deed; it would have given yon quently a girl, or h tmng matron, found time to tliroxv an every evening. I dont believe Its good meant! And you put this on me, too; ami you and I understand that it Is. .something substantia! to start xxlth. for you end I know it would worry you put this responsibility on mo! That's enough fur me. and there Isnt Sl!! you have a little tiny bit. nml elit oliraglng look to Goorge, Fan- - But I tell you. and I told Unde lk ly to in- much trouble between you lie took no note of these, ami, leuv-.tiyour mother terribly If she oull have a little tiny salary, too; the i row dial sidewalks, turned George, that the responsibility isn't and me hn xxe come to settling joor an of cour-- o your Aunt Fanny's here ny hesitated. "See here, George said, breathing all mine! If you were so sure I xxns grand';. tiler's estate. 1xe Just been i ad he's got something mu eali faI think It would only hack on If you get too pinched, until I fast, "I want to tell you once more that wrong all the time when I took her with him, and .what I did was right. How could I away, and when I turned Morgan out confuse him for you to speak to him tan begin to semi you a dribble now if you were so sure, what did you bout it again. I notice he seems dls-- and then." have done anything else but what I me do it for? ssed if anybody tries to get bis atYou and I'nde let did dor George's "little tiny hit xxns six Ob, I dont pretend to Judge, Fan- George were grown people, both of trition lie's a long xxav off, In It had come to In, mitt d dollnis and ho hi.es to stay that xvay. him from tin side of lu- - mother's fur You were older ny said soothingly, for his voice and you, werent you? th'i.k I think mother wouldn't wnnt l ICG-gesture both partook of wildness. "I than I. and if you xxcro so sure you ijjmh- - the "little tiny salat x" xvere xxiser than I. xxhy did you just us to bother him about It ; Im sun' " - ei .Ut dollars a xxeek wh.th t know you think you did. George." ""Think I did!" he echoed violent- stand around with your hands hanging s! c'.i tell its to h t him alone. lie wa- - to pay turn for .mk Hron-o- h ite end queer. And he down, and let me go ahead? Yon looks, so ly. My God In heaven! tixitt"? n s a ihrk and student at mhi i on spool, is head. xxont began to walk up and doxvn the floor, 'could have stopped it if it xxas xxrong. Geoigt- lmd in e pled tmught.l.x, bother him nnx mor than 1 cm help; What else was there to do? What couldnt you?" theiehx retiioxnl a burden Iioi .td hut 111 !...o the dot d made out ready 1, Was there any choice did I have? mint!. tun It lot his signature." He other way of stopping the talk? st in himself, low ex it had not i'i "I xxouidu't boiler h.m at nil. I stopped, close In front of her, gestica "tmx h't; though he got Ids (don't see ulating. hls voice harsh and loud: ton-- 1 ,,ir ,i Hiininienl. nml to take him "You might see" said his male Was there any other way on earth to id- - post in- toiiml it IietessHiy to The estate is Just about as Inn row two hundred of ids of protecting her from the talk? m phews Miss Fanny looked away. It died George stared atJmr hard, then Ids Inxolxed and lnixul up as an estate lx hundred dollars. "It makes me .down before long, I think, she said lower lip began to move convulsively. an xxell gT, to the best nf my lie said. "But Id betIt h. Geoigt-,and he set hls teeth upon It but could ' odgo. You outdo to have- that deed." ter nml ref that salary Mult-- t geTlhrro N'o. don't bother him." That shows I was right, doesnt it? not check its frantic txx itching. d. Of coiir-- e Fugene would do anyI ll lmther him as little as possible, lie ran out of the room. he cried. If I hadn't acted as I did, in the world, nml the fact Is Ite I'll wait till some day when he seems thing had He sat She still, listening. that slanderous old Johnson woman felt that ah under wattled to, but " would have kept cn with her slanders plunged Into his mother's room, but no to brighten up a little." the (drrumstnnees But Amber-o- n sound came to Fanny's ears after the waited too long. The shed Bttll be "Never!' (ieorge exclaimed, growing Shes sharp closing of the door; and pres- - Major had already taken eleven months red. "1 can't fnmgitto one of the famNo, Fanny Interrupted, ntly she rose and stopped out Into since his daughters death to think ily dead. She dropped dead with apoplexy He pati-enot finding It One evening neoes-nr- y one day about 6lx weeks after yon tho bal1 hut cu,d hear nothing. Important things out. to explnin that the famgrandson sat with him the Major left I didn't mention It In my let- - What Interview was sealed away from his med the to like best to have young ily shouldn't turn a inuu from sci the ear human and within lonely' eye ters because I didnt want I ht:n. favors from and door then accept darkness on the other side of that George with him, so far as they were I h thought you'd take more. doon-- In that darkness where Isabels uble to guess hls preferences and the would have Well, the other people declined. One tiling Ill Amberson own sIclal cha,rs were and hfr own old gentleman made a queer gesture; kept on, then. Theyd have for you, say young George; you havehe slapped hls knee as If he hod made walI dont know," said Fanny, still special books, and the two great a n't stingy hongja your laaiy. Thats nut wawlrobes fiHed with her dresses a sudden discovery, or else remember-Hsvs Been Times When Amberson stock In you and 1 like Ther the vertlng her troubled eyes.. .TWngs ;i ed that he had forgotten something, You Ought to Bo Hanged." are so changed here, George. The oth- Thought I" arfrnent George looked at him with an air of It er people you speak of-- one to this added hardly lie thf,rcralIy "In God a name, Inquiry, something praise north Into National avenue, and presbut said nothing. lie had knows whats become of them. 0f to be almost as 6llent aa hls of his nephew on the day he left for ently reached the quieter but no less 1 For grown f00' course not a great many were doing ,hat fhJe d;?ne7 was grandfather. Iloxvever, the Major Washington. He was not td return, begrimed region nf smaller shop and other some of the talking, and they-w- ell, but to set forth from the capita! on houses. Those latier had as Isabel In life spoke without being questioned. them are dead, and some might as surely answering him the long Journey to his post, George been the homes of Ms boyhood play- must be In the sun, he said. It , would never have answered him, and well be you never see them any more ' was beginning to understand how There wasnt anything here but went with hltn .to the station, aad mate, old friends of hls grandfather and the rest, whoever theywere, are be was lengthened by the m(, red hpre,n (h, 4,ley ht, tind dead c$n be. They can - the sun In the first place, and the their farewell e'fMJUen minute late.' neveral probably so mixed tn with the crowds "ot trains being came we of out and earth with two Imys at the same no the matter sun, their fought eloquence of new people that seem never even to "I may not Bee you again, Georgle," came out earth. of whatever the and So, how have the ,oved time, whipped them; in that front They the7 living; nd Tm sure we have heard of we are, we must have been in the sun. Amberson said, am! hi voire was he hnd been successfully teased in no matter And cannot choose. so, yard certainly never heard of them and what little husky a he set a kind hand zm Into temporary insanity by a Sunday agony George should cry out, We go back to the earth we same out of people seem to forget things so soon What else could I have done? and so the earth will go backto The sun the young man's shoulder. It's quite school class of pinky little girls. On they seem to forget anything. You how that It came out of. And time means probable that from this time on we'll that sagging porch a laughing woman cant Imagine how things have changed to the end of his life no, matterIsabel know each other by letter until fed him and oilier boy with often he made that wild appeal, nothing nothing at all so In a little only here notified as my next of kin that badp you're xx toIn the sun all be back doomed to answer him with the and gingerbread ; yqnder ho was bile well doughnuts George gulped painfully before he theres an old valise to be forwarded saw the staggered I wish relic of the Iron murmur. faint wistful, gether. could speak. You you mean to sit to you, and perhaps some dusty curios seen to him. had Td if made hls white as have fence he moved like Just hand hls lie uncertainly there and tell me that If Td just let from the consulate muntelplece. Well, picket on a once." and In ths and dare, for Jump, pony George something, reaching He swung away, Oh things go on A superstitious person jurniKHl up. Did you want anything, it's an odd way for u to he saying shabby, stone-faee. . . behind the . house I tell you walking the floor again. good bye; one wouldnt have thought fence he hnd gone to childrens parmight have thought It unfortunate that grandfather? It, even a few years ago, but here we ties, and, when he wa a little older What? Fanny's partner In speculative industwo of elegant appear- he had danced there often, and fallen rolling-milltry as In Wilburs disastrous Would you like a glass of water 7 are, In a gentlemen of bustltude. We can't In love with ance state was that charming but too Mary Sharon, and kissed No iv. No; I dont want anything" tell what wlU happen at all, can ever man of the world, George The reaching hand dropjed back up- we? Life and money both behave like her, apparently by force, under the Amberson. He was one of those stairs In the hail. The double front on the arm of his chair, and he re- loose quicksilver in a nest of cracks. doors, of meanlnglessly carved walnut, who believe that If you put mina few but Into silence; lapsed we cant tell once so glossily varnished, had teen money Into a great many enterprises utes later he finished the sentence he And when theyre gone where or what the devil we did with one of them Is sure to turn out a for- had smoke gray, hut the smoke begun: leml But I believe Ill say now while painted tune, and .Therefore, In order to find showed ! , repulsively, even on the me grime tell could I wish somebody there Isn't much time left for either smoke gray; and over the doors n the lucky one, It Is only necessary to The next day be had a slight cd(l, of u to get embarrassed about it I go Into a large enough numherof them. he seemed annoyed when hls son believe Ill say that Ive always been smoked sign proclaimed the place to hut You ought to have thought of my he a Stag hotel." and Am- fond of record and stayed out, he told Fanny, suggested colling the doctor, you. We all spoiled you terThis was the last walk home" he so oxen him hls have way when you were a little hoy and was ever to take one day the next spring, when the af- berson let ribly by the route he was fairs of the,- headlight company had far. In fact, that after he had got up let you grow up en prince and I ie following: up National avenue to and dressed, the following morning, must say you took to Itl But youve begun to look discouraging. Things was all alone when he went away received a pretty heavy Jolt, and 1 Amfierson addition and the two big he look and Im do bleak, only glad you find to out' what he hadnt been able had enough of your disposition, myself, old houses at the foot of Amherson didn't go Into this confounded thing boulevard, for tonight wmuld he the to tli!nk otit all those thing he haJ at your understand a little of !ot to the extent I did. age,to. night That he and Fanny were to him. w hat'eocksure youth has to go through lIIss Fanny grew plnkr But lt must wished Eomcbody vould tell in the house which the Major, Old Sam, shuffling In with the break- Inside when It find that It con make spend We saw go right J" she protested. to deed to Isabel, Tohad forgotten with our own eyes how perfectly It fast tray, found the Major In his ac- terrible mistakes. Well, with my train morrow they were to "move out, nd worked out In the shop. It simply" customed easy chair by the fireplace coming Into the shed, you'll forgive George was to begin hls wmrk In Bronand yet evep the old darkey could me for saying that there have been sons office. lie hnd not come to this Oh, you're right about that, Ama was see Instantly that tLe Major was not .times when I thought you ought to be perIt certainly berson said. eol'apse without a fierce struggle but In there. the fect thing shop!" hanged but Ive always been fond tbe struggle was Inward, and-thBut think of that test on the road Dot stated by It, you, and now I like you! And Just. ln, world w CHAPTER XX. when we " for a last word; there may be some- and rolled calmly on. For of alt the That test was lovely, he admitted. body else in this town who's always Ideals of life" which the world, In It When the great Amberson estate felt about you like that fond of you, rolling. Inconsiderately flatten out to The Inventor made us happy with hls oratory, and you and Frank Bronson went Into court for settlement, there I mean, no matter how much It seem- nothingness, the least likely to retain and I went whirling through the night wasn't any. George Amberson said ed you ought to be hanged. You might a profile Is that Ideal which depend at a speed that thrilled us. We must that Is, when the settlement was con- try Hello, I roust run. Ill send upon Inheriting money. George Amno estate. He re- hack the shall. never we was and tli It ere never cluded I Did the I forget You." money as fast as they pay berson, In spite of his record of failTell Right Thing, hav- me It cost" so, good bye and God bless you, ures In business, had spoken shrexvdfy proached himself bitterly for not I did the only faBut something must be done." when he realized at last that money, right thing ! You think ing long ago discovered that his I was wrong! to Georgia deed It must Indeed! My something ther bad never given Isabel a He passed through the gates, waved like life, was Tike quicksilver In a I'm not saying so, she said. would seem to be leaving my watch at her house. And those pigs, Sydney cheerily from the other side nest of cracks." And his nephew had "You did at the time! he cried. my uncles. Luckily, you and Amelia! be added, for this was; jron fCTent and was lost from the awakening experience of seeing "You said enough then, I think. Well, The pink of Fannys cheeks became another thing he was bitter about.' jn the hurrying crowd. And as the great Amberson estate vanishing what have you to say dow. If you're deeper. But isnt that man going to wont do anything. Im sorry jje disappeared, an unexpected polgu Into snrh a nest In a twinkling; It They sure I was wrong?" do anything to remedy it? Cant he I gave them the opportunity of making : loneliness fell upon Ids nephew so seemed, now that ILwas Indeed so utt . .Nothing Georgetry to-a polished refusal. The estate was bodgD(j o suddenly that he had terty vanished. lie ly crippled, even before they took out no He can try," said Amberson. "Its only because you're afraid to I On this last homeward walk of bis, mergy to recoil from the shock. IT he said, and he went on with a sudden ts trying. In tact. Ive sat In tbe shop their the last fragment when George reached the entrance to third, and the Third they took (0 him hitter divination: Youre reproach- watching him try for several beautiful was the only good part of the rotten familiar world had disappeared, Amberson addition that is. when he resing yourself with what you had to do afternoons." for them ask didnt I Well, apple. jeerne to where the entrance bad forleaving him all alone forever. . But yoa mast make him keep on With all that; and at ' to and he own been account, gave a' little start, youre trying He walked homeward slowly through; neriy titution on my I ak cp for It will save you some trouble, what appeared to be the strange and halted for a moment to stare, doing and saying trying it by least what oo think mother would want a keep sitting !" Oh, yes. George. Never waste any time and, aa a matter of fact, the city This wa the first time be had yon To, and you think I couldnt stand However, In spite of the time he young to them ; you mustnt count on city, stone tbe that pillar, marking strange to him. He had seen In the shop, worrying the writing it If I got to In college, j the entrance, had been removed. Then thinking I might have spent sitting his It of them. year tie during Amber-sek,ae differently. Oh, 1 know! Thats Inventor of the fractions light. that for a long time he find I dont," George said quietly. "I and then had followed the long b-- be realized found opportunity to worry him'Taetly whats la your mind: yon do of a queeroess about conscious aence and Lis tragic return, Since tlo,t count on anything." think i W23 about another matter of busine. dont self without cornr Unde go does being aware of are j wrong! be bad been scarcely outdoor af aU Oh, well not feel that thing Iaade National difference. i challenged him about it This was the Settlement of Isabel's Lim Amberson laughed. M Fanny complained, warning quit desperate, r,Jler day,-anhe answered Just estate. v. wx. V- - QQ Q - - po- its -- f () ? T -- x t - - cnt e, - - Tu-u- m . 1 d ' -- i 1 -- t -- i j 1 ! I -- I x 111 Wit-din- fl-- ; x xx -- -- - e- , 1 my-e- free-nm- good-bye- x - g I -- 1 i 1 some-xxler- o, xx 1 I xx I j V -- I -- 1 - , 1 1 x un-ea-d- - -- knowl-nervousl- -- " - 1 d, , xxl-- i trc, ; d ! . ; l u-- - J i 1 1 d s, hap-hazardo- ts -- e r J , , -- J tat -- ! ni no-w- lit-jtlc- a ! ten d t j the filllar made the boulevard seem a cross street of no overpowering !m- portance certainly it did not seem to be a boulevard! George walked by the Mansion hurriedly, Hm1jcwme home to hls mothcri ' house for the last time. Kinptlness was there, too, and th closing of the door resounded through bare rooms ; for downstairs there was no furniture In the house except a kitchen table In the dining room, which Fanny Imd kept for dinner," she said, thongll ns he was to rook and serv tl at men! her-e- lf George had hi doubts nhout her mime for it. Upstairs, -- he hnr! retained hT own furniture, and Gooige had bei n living in his niorhi rs roonr having sent everything from lus own to the auction. - Isalujls uu.uU a in h.uIJxH'n, but the , furniture xxonM be moved with minx's jn rn quarter In the inorn-it- u Fanny hnd made plans for her n I'hexx ns xxell as herself; site had fonn.l a "t lire room kitchenette npnrt-in- i nt" Tn an npaitmenFTiouse where xi ral oh) fi lends of hers had estah lied t liernselx es elderly WixlOXXS of itions miie "prominent" and other r Hied trentr.v. People used their own "kiti lu nettes" for breakfast and lunch, -- 1 xx -- i -- but there xxas a table-dhotarrange incut for dinner on the ground floor; o and after dinner bridge xxas played exemtig, nn attraction poxxerful xxlth Fanny. Site had ntnde nil h arrangements, she reorted. and ner-- t vously npienlod for approx at, asking If lie hadnt shown herself "pretty practical In Mich matters. George uoqul-eee- d absent mindedly. not thinking of hat she said nml not realizing lint it Committed him. . lie began to realize It now, ns he xxi ndered about the dismantled house; was far from sure that lie xvits x filing to llxe-la "three-rooapart-neat breakfast nt" xxlth Fanny-anand lunch with her (prepared by herself in tin1 "kitchenette") and dinner lit the table d'hote .n "Midi a pretty s Colonial dlrdpg room (so Fanny rilied it) at a little round table they would have nil to llicniselves In Ilia midst of a dozen little round tables Inch other relics of disrupted families xxould have dll to themselves. Fcr the first time, now that the elian?o xvns Imminent. George began to develop before his mind's eye pictures of vhnl he xxns in for; and they appal! d Min. lie derided that such ft life him m t he sheerly unbearable, and that after all there xvere aome tilings left that be Just couldn't stand. So lie made up hls mind to speak to hls aunt about it at dinner, and toll hci that he preferred to ask Bronson , a trunk and to let hltn put a a folding rubber bathtub behind a a reen la the dark rear room of the nil xx xx d h-- x ve-g- ed sofa-bed- tf-fie--. ' at dinner" Fanny wa nervabout the failure o her efforts with sweetbreads and macaroni; and she was so eager In her talk of how comfortable they be by this time tomorroxv But ous, and so distressed night.' "dinner" he went upstairs, his hand alowly along the walnut railing of the balusHalf way to the landing he turned, and stood looking down at the heavy doors masking the black emptiness that had been the Here he hnd stood oa what library. lie now knexT wa the worst day of hlf life; here he had stood when hls mother passed through that doorway, hand-i- n hand with her brother, to learn wbat her son had done. He went on more heavily, more slow ly ; and, more heavily and slowly still, entered Isabel's room and shut the door. He did not come forth again, t and bade Funny through the closed door when she stopped out side It later. Tve put ail the light out. George," all right. she said. Everything Good night. Very well, he called. Aunt Fanny. His voice hod a strangled sound In spite of him; but she seemed not to notice It, and be beard ber go to her own yoorn and lock herself In with bolt and key again?; burglars. She had said tbe one thing she should not have said Just then: "I'm sure your mother's watching over you, Georgle. She had meant to be kind, but It destroyed hls last chance for sleep that night. He would hgve slept little If she had not said it, but since she had -said It he did not sleep at aU For he knew that It wa true If It could be true that his mother, if she still lived In spirit, would be weeping on the other side of tbe wall of silence, weeping and seeking for some gate to let her through so that she could come and watch over him." He felt that If there were such gate they were surely barred: they were like those awful library doors downstairs, which bad shut her In to begin the suffering he' had consigned her. The room gas still Isabels. Nothing had heeu changed : even, the photographs of George, of the Major and of brother Goorge still stood on her dressing tajle, and in a drawer of ber desk was at old picture of Eugene and Lucy, takes together, which George hid found bwt had slowly closed way agnln from sight, not touching tt. Tomorrow everything would be gone; and hriad beard here wias not king to wait liefore the ouse Itself would be demolished. Tbe very space which tonight was still Isabels room would be cut into new shape by new wall and floors ani ceilings; yet the room would Uve, for It could not die ut of Georges memory. It woald live as long as he did, and It would always be murmurous with e trtgla wUUal whispering. (TO I E CONTlNlTDl After moving smooth trade. stopped, good-nigh- alxs-ay- s |