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Show TCT PATXWATN, 'tiling The (Continued from last week) SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER I. Major Amberson had nade a fortune In 1S73 when other people rare losing fortunes, and the magnificence if the Ambersons began then. Major laid out a development, vith roads and statuai y, and in the centre )f a four-acr- e tract, on Amberson avenue, ullt for himself the most magnificent anslon the Midland City had ever seen. Am-lers- CHAPTER . Another citizen said an eloquent thing, about Miss Isabel Ambersons looks. This was Mrs. Henry Franklin Foster, the foremost literary authority and Intellectual leader of the community foj both the dally newspapers thus described Mrs. Foster Mtfien she founded the Womens Tennyson club ; and her word upon art, letters and the drama .was accepted more as law than as opinion. Naturally when "Hazel Klrke finally reached town, after Its long triumph in larger places, many people waited to hear what Mrs. Henry Franklin Foster thought of It before they felt warranted In expressing any estimate of the play. In fact, some of them waited in the lobby of the theater as they came out and formed an Inquiring group about her. I didnt see the play," she Informed them. What ! Why, we saw you, right In the middle of the fourth row! yes, she said, smiling, but I was sitting Just behind Isabel Amberson. I couldnt look at anything except her wavy brown hair and the wonderful back of her neck. The Ineligible young men of the town (they were all Ineligible) were unable to content themselves with the view that had so charmed Mrs. Henry Franklin Foster; they spent their time struggling to keep Miss Ambersons face turned toward them. She turned It most often, observers said, toward two : one excelling In the general struggle by his sparkle, and the other by that winning if not winsome old trait, persistence. The sparkling gentleman led germans with her, and sent sonnets to her with his bouquets sonnets lacking neither music nor wit. He-wgenerous, poor, and-hi- s amazing persuasiveness was one reason why he was always in debt. No one doubted that he would be able to persuade Isabel, but he unfortunately joined too. merry a party one night, and during a moonlight serenade upon the lawn before the Amberson mansion, was easily Identified from the windows as the person who stepped through the bass viol and had to be assisted to a waiting carriage. One of Miss Ambersons brothers was among the serenaders, and when the party had dispersed remained propped against the front door In a state of helpless liveliness; the Major going down in a dressing gown and slippers to bring him in, and scolding mildly, while imperfectly concealing strong impulses to laughter. Miss Amberson also laughed at this brother the next day, but for the suitor It was a different matter: she refused to see him when he called to apologize. You seem to care a great deal about bass viols! he wrote her. I promise never to break another. She made no response to the note, unless It was an answer, two weeks later, when her engagement was announced. She took the persistent one, Wilbur Mlnafer, no breaker of bass viols or of hearts, no serenader at all. A few people, who a'iways foresaw everything, claimed that they were not r surprised, because though Wilbur It as an be not Apollo, might were, he was a .steady young business man and a good church goer," and Isabel Anderson was pretty senBut sible for such a showy girl. the engagement astounded the young people, and most of their fathers and mothers too; and as a topic it supplanted literature at the next meeting of the Womens Tennyson club. Wilbur Mlnafer! a member cried, her Inflection seeming to imply that Wlburs crime was explained by his Wilbur Mlnafer! ItS the surname. as ' II. queerest thing I ever heard ! To think of her taking Wilbur Mlnafer, Just because a man any woman would like a thousand times better was a little Wild one night at a serenade! No, that wasnt her reason, said wise Mrs. Henry Franklin Foster. If men only knew It and its a good thing they dont a woman doesnt really care much about whether a mans wild or not, if It doesnt affect herself, and Isabel Amberson doesnt care a thing Mrs. Foster! No, she doesnt. What she minds Is his making a clown of himself In her front yard ! It made her think he didnt care much about her. Shes probably mistaken, but thats what she thinks, and Its too late for her to think anything else now, because shes going to be married right away the invitations will be out next week. Itll be a big Amberson-styl- e thing, raw oysters floating In scooped-ou- t blocks of ice and a band from out town champagne, showy present ! lii e you But Georgie had reached his pony and mounted. Before setting off at his accustomed gallop he, paused to Interrupt the Rev. Malloch Smith again. well-dresse- Min-afe- 1 a colossal present from the Major. Then Wilbur will take Isabel cm the carefulest little wedding trip he can manage, and shell be a good wife to him, but theyll have the worst spoiled lot of children this town will ever see. How on earth do you makw that out, Mrs. Foster? She couldnt love Wilbur, could she? Mrs. Foster demanded, with no Well, it will all go to challengers. her children, and shell ruin em ! The prophetess proved to be mistaken in a single detail merely : except for that her foresight was accurate. The wedding was of Ambersonian magnificence, even to the floating oysters; and the Majors colossal present was a set of architects designs for a house almost as elaborate and impressive as the Mansion, the house to be built In Amberson addition by the Major. At midnight the bride was still being toasted in champagne, though she had departed upon her wedding journey at ten. Four days later the pair bad returned to town, which promptness seemed fairly to demonstrate that Wilbur had indeed taken Isabel upon the carefulest little trip he could manage. According to every report she was from the start a good wife to him, but here in a final detail the prophecy proved Inaccurate. Wilbur and Isabel did not have children ; they had only one. Only one, Mrs. Henry Franklin Foster admitted. But Id like to know if he isnt spoiled enough for a whole carload! Again she found none to challenge her. At the age of nine George Amberson Minafer, the Majors one grandchild,, wus a princely terror, dreaded not only In Amberson addition but in many other quarters through which he galloped on his white pony. By he considered In many ' respects superior to their own. He fonght them, learning how to go baresark at a certain point in a fight, bursting Into tears of anger, reaching for rocks, uttering wailed threats of murder, and attempting to fulfill them. Fights often led to Intimacies, and he acquired the art of saying things more exciting than Dont haf-t- o ! and "Doctor says it aint healthy! Thus on a summer afternoon a strange boy, sitting bored upon the gatepost of the Rev. Malloch Smith, beheld George Amberson Mlnafer rapidly approaching on his white pony and was Impelled by bitterness to shout: Shoot the ole jackass ! Look at the gtriy curls! Say, bub, whered you steal your mothers ole sash ! Your sister stole it forme! George instantly replied, checking the ponv She stole It off our cloesllne an gave it to me. You go get your hair cut! said the stranger hotly. Yah! I havent got any sjster! I know you havent at home, Georgie responded. I mean the one thats in jail. I dare you to get down off that pony ! Georgie jumped to the ground, and the other boy descended from the Rev Mr. Smiths gatepost but he descend ed inside the gate. I dare you out side that gate, said Georgie. Yah! I dare you half way here I dare you But these were luckless challenges for Georgie Immediately vaulted the fence and four minutes later Mrs Mnlloch Smith, hearing strange noises, looked forth from a window; then screamed, and dashed for the pastor' study. Sir. Malloch Smith, that grim bearded preacher, came to the from yard and found his visiting nephew being rapidly prepared by Master Mlnafer to serve as a principal figure in a pageant of massacre. It was with great physical difficulty that' Mr. Smith managed to give his nephew a chance to escape into the house, for Georgie was hard and quick, and in such matters remarkably intense; hut the minister, after a grotesque tussle, got him separated from his opponent and shook him. You stop that, you ! Georgie cried fiercely, and wrenched himself away. I guess you dont know who I am Yes, I do know! the angered Mr. S 'dill retorted. I know who you are. and youre a disgrace to your mother! Your mother ought to be ashamed of Ik rself to allow Shut up about my mother bein ashamed of herself! Mr. Smith, exasperated, was unable to close the dialogue with dignity. She ought to be ashamed, he repeatA woman that lets a bad boy ed. n FATtO. PTAH Hes an ole liar!" Georgie, you Isnt tfs Well, mustn't say Tlar. letter the truth? said Georgie, how old am I? 19 , Well, look how he says Tm older than a boy eleven years old. He Thats true, said Isabel. But Isnt some of It true, does. Georgie? Georgie felt himself to be in a, difficulty here, aud he was silent. George, did you say what he says you did? "Which one? Did you Did you tell him to to say, Go to h ? Georgie looked worried for a moment longer ; then he brightened. Listen here, mamma; grandpa wouldn't wipe his shoe on that ole story teller, would he? "Georgie, you mustnt " I mean: none of the Ambersons wouldnt have anything to do with him, would they? He doesnt even know you, does he, mamma? That hasnt anything to do with Yes. it has! I mean: none of the Amberson family go to see him, and they never have him come in their house; they wouldnt ask him to, and probly wouldn't even let him. it That Isn't what were talking about." "I bet, said Georgie emphatically, I bet If he wanted to see nny of em, hed haf to go around to the side door ! No, dear, they Yes, they would, mamma! So what does It matter if 1 say somepm to him he didnt like? That kind o people, I dont see why you cant say anything you want to to em ! "No, Georgie. And you havent an- swered me whether you said that dreadful thing he says you did. Well said Georgie. Anyway, he said somepm to me that made me mad. And upon this point he offered no further details; he would not explain to his mother that what had made him mad was Mr. Smith's hasty condemnation of herself: Your mother ought to be ashamed, and A woman that lets a bad boy like Georgie did not even conyou sider excusing himself by quoting these Insolences. " Isabel stroked his head. They were terrible words for you to use, dear. From his letter he doesnt seem a very tactful person, but Hes Just riffraff, said Georgie. You mustnt say so, his mother gently agreed. Where did you learn those bad words he speaks of? Where did you hear anyone use them? Well, Ive heard em serreva! places. I guess Uncle George Amberson was the first I ever heard say em. Uncle George Amberson said em to papa once. Papa didn't like it, but Uncle George was just laughin' at papa; an' then he said em while he was laughln. " That was wrong of him, she said, but almost Instinctively he detected the lack of conviction in her tone. It was Isabels . great failing that whatever an Amberson did seemed right to her, especially If the Amberson was either her brother George or her son You must promise me," she George. said feebly, "never to use those bad words again. I promise not to, he said promptly and he whispered an immediate codicil under his breath: Unless I get Modern Barns and Cribs Theres style to barn building as well as to home building. The modem, bam provides many conveniences and improvements that make up-to-d- ate your work easier and your crops and live stock safer. Sheds Poultry Houses No matter what kind of a building you need or whether its for farm or town we can be of service to you. We have building plans for all kinds of buildings and all the necessary material to make them. Our prices are the lowest and our advice is free. Central Lumber & Hardware Co. at my own grandmother's fuAnd later he had projected neral? his head from the window of the foremost mourners carriage, as the undertaker happened to pass. Riffraff ! There were people grown people tiiey were who expressed themselves longingly: tiiey did hope to live to see tlie day, they said, when that boy e would pet ids (They used Hint honest word, so much better than deserts, and not until many years later to be more clumsily rendered as what is coining to .him.) Something was bound to take him down some day, aud they only wanted to bo there! But Georgie heard nothing of this, and the yearners for his taking dofn went unsatisfied, while their yearning grew the greater as the happy day of fulfillment was longer and longer postponed. (Continued next week) son mad at somebody! This satisfied a code according to which, in his own sincere belief, he never told lies. "Thats a good boy, she said, and he ran out to the yard, his punishment over. As an Amberson he was already a public character, and the story of his adventure in the Rev. Malloch Smiths front yard became a town topic. Many people glanced a(t him with great dis- taste thereafter, when they chanced to encounter him, which meant nothing to Georgie, because he innocently believed most grown people to be necessarily cross looking as a normal phenomenon resulting from the adult state; and he failed to comprehend that the distasteful glances had any personal bearing upon himself. If he had perceived such a bearing he would have been affected only so far, probPosably, as to mutter, Riffraff! sibly he would have shouted it ; and certainly most people believed a story that went round the town just after Mrs. Ambersons funeral, when Georgie was eleven. Georgie was reported to have differed with the undertaker about the seating of the family ; his indignant voice had become audible: Well, who is the most important per ! come-upanc- want a pleasant physic They are easy to take and mild and gentlo in effect. They ae highly prized by people who have become acquainted with their good qualities. They only cost a quarter. (Advertisement) When you try Chamberlains Tablets. You Think You Own This Town! I guess you think you own this town ! an embittered laborer complained one day, as Georgie rode the pony straight through a pile of sand I will when the man was sieving. I grow up, the undisturbed child replied. "I guess my grandpa owns It And the baffled worknow, you bet! man, having no means to controvert what seemed a mere exaggeration of the facts, could only mutter, Oh, pull down your vest ! Dont haf to! Doctor says it aint healthy! the boy returned promptly. But I telf you what Ill do: Ill pull down my vest If youll wipe off your chin ! This was stock and stencil : the accustomed argot, of street badinage of the period ; and in such matters Georgie was an expert. He had no vest to pull down; the Incongruous fact was that a fringed sash girdled the juncture of his velvet blouse and breeches, for the Fauntleroy period had set In, and Georgies mother had so poor an eye for appropriate things, where Georgie was concerned, that she dressed him according to the doctrine of that school in boy decoration. Not only did he wear a silk sash, and silk stockings and a broad lace collar with his little black velvet suit: he had long brown curls, and often came home with burrs In them. Except upon the surface (which Was not his own work but his mothers) Georgie bore no vivid resemblance to the fabulous little, Cedric. The storied boys famous Lean on me, grandfather, would have been difficult to Imagine upoH the lips of Georgie, A golly, month after his ninth birthday anniversary, when the Major gave him his pony, he had already become acquainted with the toughest boys In various distant parts of the town, and had convinced them that the toughness of a rich little boy with long carls might Pull Down Your Vest, You Ole Billy-goa- t. AMELS supply cigarette contentment beyond anything you ever experienced ! You never tasted such s ; such refreshing, appetizing flavor and coolness. The more Camels you smoke the greater becomes your delight Camels are such a cigafull-bodi- mellow-mildnes- You pull down your vest, you ola blllygoat, you! he shouted, distinctly. Pull down your vest, wipe off your chin an go to h ! Such precocity Is less unusual, even In children of the Rich, than most However, It grown people imagine. was a new experience for the Rev, Malloch Smith, and left him in a state of excitement. He at once wrote a note to Georges mother, describing the crime according to his nephew's testimony, and the note reached Mrs. Minafer before Georgie did. When he got home she read it to him sorrowfully. Dear Madam: Your son has caused a painful distress in my household. Ha made an unprovoked attack upon a little nephew of mine who la visiting In my household, insulted him by calling him vicious names and falsehoods, stating that ladies of his family were In jail. He then tried to make his pony kick him, and when the child, who is only eleven years old, while your son Is much older and stronger, endeavored to avoid his Indignities and withdraw quietly, he pursued him Into the inclosure of my property and brutally assaulted him. When I appeared upon this scene he deliberately called insulting words to me, concluding with profanity, such as go to h , which was heard not only by myself but by my wife and the lady who lives next door. I trust such a state of undisciplined behavior rette revelation ! Everything about Camels you find so fascinating is due to their quality to the expert blend of choice Turkish and choice Domestic tobaccos. Youll say Camels are in a class by themselves they seem made to meet your own personal taste in so many ways! Freedom from any unpleasant cigaretty after-tast- e or unpleasant cigaretty odor makes Camels particularly desirable to the most fastidious smokers. And, you smoke Camels as liberally as meets your own wishes, for they never tire your taste ! Y ou are always keen for the 18c. a package cigarette satisfaction that makes Camels so attractive. Smokers realize that the value is in the cigarettes and do not expect premiums or coupons Georgie had muttered various Interruptions, and as she concluded the reading lie Mid: Wit 4V V ! 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