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Show i TBS PROVO POST tEFRD.AY. SEPT. Six doors, of meanlnglessly carved walnut, once so glossily varnished, had been painted smoke gray, but the smoke grime showed repulsively, even on the smoke gray; and over the doors a smoked sign proclaimed the place to be a "Stag hotel. This was the last walk home he was ever to take by the route be was now following : up National avenue to Amberson addition and the two big old houses at the foot of Amberson boulevard ; for tonight would be the last night that he and Fanny were to spend In the' house which the Major had forgotten to deed to Isabel. When the great Amberson estate went into "jourt for settlement, there I wasnt any," George Amberson said that Is, when the settlement was concluded there was no estate. He reproached himself bitterly for not having long ago discovered that his father had never given Isabel a deed to her house. "And those pigs, Sydney And Amelia!" h added, forthls was another thing he was bitter about They wont do anything. I'm sorry X gave them the ppportunlty of making a polished refusal. The estate was badly crippled, even before they took out their third, and the third they took was the only good part of the rotten apple. JWell, I didnt ask JhemJorre-titutloon my own account end at least It will save you some trouble, young George. Never waste any time writing to them; you mustnt count on i; i ' t i ! 4 - t . i , them." , I dont" dont count George said Quietly. 1 on anything." "Oh, well not fed that things are Quite desperate," Amberson laughed, but not with great cheerfulness. Well survive, Georgl e y ou wllV.es-pedallFor my part I'm a little too old and too accustomed to fall back on somebody else for supplies to start a big fight with life; Ill be content with Just surviving, and X can do It on an concan al- sulship. An ways be pretty sure of getting some t such job, and I hear from Washing-- settled. So ion ihemattera-abmuch for met But you o course youve had a poor training for making your own .way, but youre only a boy after all.'and the stuff of the old stock Is In you. Itll come out and do something. Ill never forgive myself about that deed: It would have given yon something substantial to start with. Still, you have a little tiny bit, and youll have a little tiny salary, too; and of courae your Aunt Fanny1 here, and shes got something You can fan back on if you get too pinched, until I can begin to send you a dribble now and then." ' slx s Georges "11 ttle tiny hundred dollars which had coma to him from the sale of his mothers furniture; and the little tiny salary" - wss eight dollars a week which old i Frank Bronson was to pay him for j services as a clerk and student-at- law. George bad accepted haughtily, ,, and thereby removed a burden from ' 'his undes mind.1 ' Amberson himself, however, had not bit;" though he got bla consular appointment, and to take him to bis post ho found Jt necessdry to borrow two hundred of his nephews six hundred dollars. It makes .me sick, George, he said. But Id better get there and get that salary start-- . 1 Ht A- - t ti r- - , bit"-wa- i v AI - s i 1 ny Am-berso- 1. ys been - fond banged but- - Tve-slof you, and now I like youl And Jus for a last word; there may be somebody else In this town whos always felt about you like thufr fond of you, I mean, no matter how much It seemed you ought to be hanged. You might Hello, I must run. Ill send try back the money aa fast as they pay me so, good bye and God hi ess you, Georgie I" He passed through the gates, waved his hat cheerily from the other side of the Iron screen, and was lost from sight In the hurrying crowd. And ns be disappeared, an unexpected poignant loneliness fell upon Jits nephewso heavily and so suddenly that he had no energy to recoil from the shock. I1 seemed to him that the last fragment of bis famlllsnrorld bad disappeared, -leaving him all alone forever.- - He walked homeward alowly through wa and-the- n' '' j 3 -- t ! 1 ? ' ! ! i - a stingy bone In your body. Thats In you and I Ilka the Amberson stock -He added something to this praise of his nephew on the day lie left for Washington. He was not to return, but to set forth from the capital ou the long journey to bis post George went with him to the station, and their farewell ya s lengthened by the trains being several minutes late. " t i ?i I may not see you again. Georgie," Amberson said, and his voice was a little husky as be set a kind hand on the young mans shoulder. "Its quite probable that from this time on well only know each other by letter until youre notified as. my next of kia that theres sn old valise to be forwarded to you, and perhaps some dusty curios from the consulate mantelplece. Well, Its an odd way for us to be saying good bye; one wouldnt have thought It, even s few years ago, but here we are, two gentlemen of elegant appearance la a state of bustitude. We cant ever tell what will happen at alL can we I Life and money both behave like loose Quicksilver In a nest of crack. And when theyre gone wa cant tell where or what the devil we did with em I But I believe Ill say now while there isnt much time left for tRV 1 of us to get embarrassed about ft I believe HI say that Ive always bceu fond of you, .V,'e nl rolled you terribly when you Ar. u little boy let you grow up en prince and I must say you tx-- to it! 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Caowto mrm uoU mryorwhan afM of 30 aigmtt 1 - g " p ' George was sons office. I what appeared to, be the strange city, and, as a matter of fact, the dty was strange to him. He had seen little of It during his years U college, e had followed-thlong absence and his tragic return. Since that be bad been "scarcely outdoors at all" as Fanny complained, warning him that his health would suffer, and be had been downtown only In a dosed carriage. He bad not realized the ed. Of course Eugene would do any-- - great change. The streets were thunderous,' VRst thing In the world, and the fact is be wanted to, but I felt that ah under energy heaved under the universal " coating of dinginess. George walked the circumstances the- begrimed crowds of hur"Never I" George exclaimed, growing through and raw- no face that rying strangers red. "I can't Imagine one of the fambe remembered. Great- numbers ol " He It not" finding paused,! ily faces were even of a kind he did not necessary to explain that "the fara-p- r. remember ever to have seen; they shouldnt turn a man from the were partly like the old typo that diyor and then accept favors from him. his boyhood knew, and partly like I wish youd take more." ' types he knew abroad. He raw GerAmberson declined. "One thing m man' eyes with American wrinkles at say for you. young George; you have-n- t their comers; he saw Irish eyes and even-a-"ti- i t ' ouC"Snd to begin his work in BronHe had not come to this times when I thought you ought to be collapse without a fierce struggle but the struggle was Jnward, end the rolling world was not agitated by It, and rolled calmly on. For of all the Ideals of life which the world. In Its rolling, Inconsiderately flattens out to nothingness, the least likely to retain a profile Is that Ideal which depends upon-- lnherltlag money.- - George In spite of ht record of failures In buElnesarhad spoken, shrewdly when herealized at last that money, like life, was like Quicksilver In a nest of cracks." And his nephew bad the awakening experience of seeing the great Amberson estate vanishing Into such A nest in a twinkling; it seemed, now that It was indeed so ut,terly vanished. On ibis last homeward walk of his. when George reached the entrance to Amberson addition that Is, when bs cams to where the entrancehsd formerly been be gave a llttle start, and baited for a moment to stare. This was tbs first time bs had noticed that the stone pillars, marking tbs entrance, bad been removed. Then be realised that for'a long time he bad een conscious of a queemess about this corner - without belng swmre of artist made the difference.1. National avenue met Amberson boulevard here at an obtuse angle, and tbs removal of the pillars made thA boulevard seem a cross street of no overpowering Importance certainly It did not teem to bs a boulevard Titers Havs Bssn Times When George walked by the Mansion hurThought You Ought to Bs Hanged." iLEDW.PAGE & COMPANY CHAPTER XX. si 2. 1919. riedly, and came home to Ms mothers bouse for the last time. Emptiness was there, too, and the closing of the door resounded through bare rooms ; for downstairs there was no furniture In the bouse except a kitchen table In the dining room, which Fanny had kept "for dinner," she said, tbongh as she was to cook and serve tlist meal herself George had Ms doubts about her name for it. Upstairs, she had retained Jber own furniture, and George had been living In Ms mothers room, having sent everytMng from his own to the suction. Isabels room was still as it bad been, but the furniture would be moved with Fannys to new quarters la the morning. Panny had made' plans for her nephew as well as herself; she had found a three-rookitchenette house where several old friends of hers had established themselves elderly widows of citizens once "prominent and other retired gentry. People used their own "kitchenettes" for breakfast and lunch, but there was n taMe-dhot- e nd arrangement for dtnner on floor; and after dinner bridge .was played all evening, an attraction powerful with Fnnny. She bad "made all the arrangements," she reported, and nervously appealed fpr approval, asking If she hadn't shown herself "pretty practical" In such matters. George acquiesced jibsent-mlndedlnot thinking of what she wild and not realizing to wliat It committed him. He began to realize It now, as he uendered about the dismantled house; he was far from' sure that he was willing to live in a "three-rooapartment with Fanny and eat breakfast and lunch with her (prepared by herself In the "kitchenette) and dinner at the table dhote .n "such a pretty Colonial dining room" (so Fanny described It) at a little round table they would have all to themselves In the midst of a dozen little round tablet which other relics of disrupted families would have all to themselves. For the first time, now that the change s imminent, George began to develop before bis mlqds eye pictures of v hat he was In for ; and they appalled tlm. He decided that such a life verged upon the sheerly unbearable, and that after all there were some things left that he Just couldnt stand. So he made up Ms mind to speek to Ms aunt about It at "dinner," and tell' 1 I' 'V ,!V Wf, in ,!l mUu Beer Ancient Drink. Beer Is believed to be one of the most ancient of drinks. Manuscripts written at least 3,000 years before th Christian era show conclusively , that even at that primitive period the manufacture of an hstoxl eating liquor from . karley or other grain was extensively carried on In Europe. t Accounting fon It. Joung FItznoodle (to dentist) Isnt It rather mange, doctor, that , havent cut my wisdom teoth yetr Dentist (calmly) Oh, I dent know. Perhaps there Isnt enough my age I to oush hen wisdom back of them through." i raw m 1920 Series t Everytnlng All Right Nellje wns happily anticipating Santa Claus visit ..It was Christmas cve and raIll,n furiously, A friend happened In and said: "Santa Clan cant come to. tight because It is raining." Nellie thought seriously a moment and raid: "Ob. yes he can; ha has Ms reindeers. 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The French pleated built for long wear and comfort. , , if f her that be preferred to ask Bronson a trunk and adventure of the department store, tor to let him put a sofa-bebathtub behind perhaps an escape from the charging s folding-rubbtraffic of the streets end not Infre- screen In the dark rear room of the office. quently a girl, or s But at "dlnn" Fanny was nervyoung matron, found time to throw an ous, and so distressed about the failencouraging look to George. He took no note of these, and, leav- ure of her efforts with sweetbreads and macaroni; and she was so eager ing the crowded sidewalks, turned In her talk of bow comfortable they Into north National avenue, and would be "by tills time tomorrow reached the quieter but no less nJ$hL begrimed region of smaller shops and After "dinner be went upstairs, bouses. Those latter had Ms band slowly along the been the homes of Ms boyhood play- moving smooth walnut railing oL the bslus-mates, old friends $ Ms. grandfather bad. lived here-- In this alley he bad trade" BalOray to the landing he stopped, turned, end stood looking fought with two boys at the same down at the heavy doors masking the and time, whipped them ; in that front black emptiness that had been the yard he had been successfully teased library. Here be bad. stood on what Into temporary insanity by a Sunday be now knew wss the worst of Ms school class of pinky little girls. Oq life ; here he had stood when day his moththat sagging porch a laughing woman er passed through that doorway, d had fed Mra and other boys with w 1th her brother, to learn what doughnuts and gingerbread; yonder he her son had done. saw the staggered relics of the Iron He went on more heavily, more slowpicket fence he had made his white ly ; and, more heavily ahd slowly still, pony Jump, on a dare, and Jn the entered Isabel's room and -- shut the Inclined wuidshield, handsome improved top of material, side curtains that swing open with the dxrs.-- d, er for-wa- rd t high erade free-und-ea- . When Better AutomobOee Are hand-in-han- Built BUICK WUlBtiudfhim f TeMride Motor - louse behind the shubby, stone-face- d fence he had gqne to childrens parties, and, when he was a little older he had danced there often, and falh n In love with Mary' Sharon, an.! her apparently by- force, under the Stairs In the hall. Li-s- He did hot come forth again, iuid Lade Funny good-nigh- t through the closed door w hen she stopped out-- 1 side It later, Tve put all the lights out, George, she said. "Everythings all right" door. (Cortlnuednn 7) j i 57 West Center Street Coh Phone 279 W rays' V i . 'J |