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MALHEUR ENTERPRISE, VALE, OREGON
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1920.
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(Continued).
lie was gratified to see that Eugene
was surprised, If not, Indeed, a little
startled.
"He's what?"
"He's an expert on nltro-glycerln.
Doesn't that beat the devil! Yes, slrl
Young Akers told Fred that this
George Mlnnfer hod worked like a
houn'-dog ever since he got stnrted
out at the works. They have a speclnl
plant for nltro-glycerln, way off from
the main plant, o' course In the
woods somewhere and Oeorge Mlna
fer's been working there, and lately
they put him In charge of It. He over
sees shooting oil wells, too, and shoots
'em himself, sometimes. They oren't
allowed to carry It on the railroads,
you know have to team It. Young
Akers says George rides around over
the bumpy roads, silting on ns much as
three hundred quarts of nltro-glycerln t
My Lord I Talk about romontlc tum
bles! If he gets blown sky-high some
day he won't have a bigger drop, when
he comes down, than he's already had f
Don't It beat the devil ! Young Akers
said he's got nil the nerve there Is in
the world. Says he gels n fair salary,
and I should think he ought to ! Seems
to me I've heard the average life In
that sort of work Is somewhere around
four years, and agents don't write any
Insurance at all for nltro-glycerln ex
perts. Hardly 1"
"No," said Eugene. "I suppose not."
Kinney rose to go. "Well, It's a
pretty funny thing pretty odd, I mean
and I suppose It would be pass-around-the-hat
for old Fanny Mlnnfer
U he blew up. Fred told me that
they're living In some apartment bouse,
fcnd said Georgle supports her. He was
Rolng to study law, but couldn't earn
enough that way to take care of
Fanny, so lie gave It up. Fred's wife
told him all this. Says Fnnny doesn't
do anything but play bridge these
days. Got to playing too high for
awhile and lost more than she wanted
to tell Georgle about, and borrowed
a little from old Frank Bronson. Paid
him hack, though. Don't know how
Fred's wife heard It. Women do hear
the rinrndest things!"
"They do," Eugene agreed.
"Well, I'm off to the store," said Mr.
Kinney briskly; yet he lingered. "I
suppo.se we'll all have to club In and
keep old Fanny out of the poorhouse
If he does blow up. From all I hear
It's usually only a question of time.
They say she hasn't got anything else
to depend on."
"I suppose not."
"Well I wondered" Kinney hesi
tated. "I was wondering why you
hadn't thought of finding something
around your works for him. You used
to be such a tremendous friend of the
family I thought perhnps you of
course I know he's a queer lot I know
he a "
"Yes, I think he Is," said Eugene.
"No. I haven't anything to offer hlni."
"I suppose not," Kinney returned
thoughtfully, as he went on. "I don't
know that I would myself. Well, we'll
probably see bis name In the papers
some day If he stuys with that Job !"
. . . However, the nltro-glycerln
expert of whom they spoke did not get
Into the papers as a consequence of
being blown up, although his dally life
was certainly a continuous exposure In
that risk. Destiny has a constant pas
sion for the Incongruous, and It was
George's lot to manipulate wholesale
quantities of terrific and volatile ex
plosives In safety, and to be laid low
by an accident so commonplace and In
consequent that It was a comedy.
Fnte hnd reserved for him the final In
sult of riding him down under the
wheels of one of those juggernauts at
which he had once shouted "Git n
hoss!" Nevertheless, Fate's Ironic
choice for Georgle's undoing was mrt a
big and swift and momentous car, such
as Eugene manufactured ; It was a spe
cimen of the hustling little type that
whs flooding the country, the cheapest,
commonest, hardiest little car ever
made.
The accident took place upon n Sun
day morning, on a downtown crossing,
with the streets almost empty, and no
reason In the world for uch a thins
to happen. He had gone out for bis
Sunday morning walk, and ho was
thinking of an automobile at the very
moment when tho little car struck
him; he was thinking of a shiny lun
daulet and a charming figure stepping
Into It. and of the quick gesture of a
white glove toward tho chauffeur, mo
tioning him to go on. George heard a
shout, but did not look up, for he could
uot Imagine anybody's shouting at him,
and he was too engrossed In the ques
tlim "Was It I.uoy?" He could not de
cide, and his lack of decision In this
mutter probably superinduced h lack
of derision In another, more pres.slngly
vital. At the second and louder shout
he dlil look up ; and tho car was almost
on tilni ; hut be could not make up his
mind If tho charming little figure be
had seen was Lucy's and he could nut
make up his mind whether to go back
ward or forward; these questions be
came entangled In hi mind. Then,
still not being able to decide which of
two ways to go, he tried to go both
and the little car ran him down. It
w-is not moving very rapidly, but It
went nil tho way over George.
Ho was conscious of gigantic vio
lence; of roaring und Jolting and con
cussion ; of choking clouds of dust,
shot with lightning, about his hcnd ;
he beard twupplng sound as loud as
shots from a small pistol, und was
Ntiihbed by excruciating pains In bis
leg. Then he became, aware that the
machine was belug lifted oil of him.
People were gathering lu a circle
rouna mm, gwonnim.
Ills forehead was bedewed with the
flwent of anguish, and he tried to wipe
off this dampness, but failed. He could
not get his arm thut far.
"Nev mind," a policeman said; and
George could see ubove his eyes the
skirts of the blue eont, covered wl'.ti
dust and sunshine. "Amb'lnnce here In
a minute. Nev' mind tryin' to move
any. Yon want 'em to send for some
speclnl doctor?"
"No." George's lips formed the word.
"Or to take yon to some private
hospital?"
"Tell them to take me," he said
faintly, "to the City hospital."
"A' right."
A smallish young man In a duster
fidgeted among the crowd, explaining
"Tell Them to Take Me," He Said
Faintly, "to the City Hospital."
and protesting and n strident-voiced
girl, his companion, supported his ar
gument, declaring to everyone her
willingness to offer testimony In any
court of law that every blessed word
he said was the God's truth.
"It's the folln that hit you," the po
liceman said, looking down on George.
"I guess he's right ; you must of b'en
thlnkln' about somop'n' or other. It's
wunncrful the damage them little ma
chines can do you'd never think It
but I guess they ain't much case ag'ln
this fella that was drlvin' it
"You bet your life they ain't no case
on me!" the young man In the duster
agreed, with great bitterness. He came
and stood at George's feet, addressing
him heatedly : "I'm sorry fer you all
right, and I don't say I ain't. I hold
nothln' against you, but It wasn't nny
more my fault than the storehouse!
Wasn't goin' a step over eight miles
an hour! I'm perfectly willing to say
I'm sorry for you though, and so's the
lady with mo. We're both willing to
sny that much, but that's all, under
stand !"
George's drawn eyelids twitched;
his misted glance rested fleet Ingly up
on the two protesting motorists, and
the old Imperious spirit within him
flickered tip in a single word. Lying
on his hack In the middle of the street,
where he' was regarded by an Increas
ing public as mi unpleasant curiosity,
he spoke this word clearly from a
mouth filled with dust, and from lips
smeared with blood.
... It was a word which Inter
ested the policeman. When the ambu
lance clanged away, he turned to a
fellow patrolman who hnd Joined him.
"Funny what he says to the llttlo cuss
that done the damage. That's all be
did cull him nothln' else at all and
the cuss had broke both his legs fer
him ami God-knows-what-all !"
"I wasn't hero then. What was it?"
" 'lUiTraff!'"
CHAPTER XXIII.
Eugene's feeling abmit George had
not been altered hy his talk with Kin
ney In the club window, though he was
somewhat disturbed. Kinney had rep
resented Georgle as a new Georgle
lit least In spots n Georgle who was
proving that decent stuff hud been bid
in him; In fact, a Georgle who was do
ing rather a handsome thing in taking
a risky Jol for the sake of his aunt,
poor old silly Fanny Mlnnfer! Kugcno
didn't cure what rlslss Geirrgle took, or
how in mil decent stuff be had In him;
nothing that Gourde would ever do in
this world or the next could change
Eugene Morgan's feeling toward hint.
If Eugene luul wished, he could eas
ily have taken George out of the nitro
glycerin branch of tlie chemical works.
Always Interested in apparent Impos
sibilities of Invention, Eugene had en
coiiiiuied many experiments lu such
groplugs as those fur the discovery of
siilsi ii met for gasoline and rubber;
and, though liis mood bad withheld the
Information from Kinney, be luul re
cently bought from the elder Akers a
Mibslalilial 1 1 1 1 : 1 1 1 1 1 1 v of stock on tho
coialillou that the chelnicttl ciniptlliy
should ostablb W an experimental labo
ratory. He intended to buy more;
Akei-s was anxious to please hint; and
a won! from Eugene would have
plm ed George illlnot anywhere In the
cbeiu'c.il worki. The possibility just
edgi-d limit' into Ei.cue's uilnd; thut
is, ne let it oecotne part or nil percep
tions long enough for It to prove to
him that It was actually a possibility.
Then he half started with disgust that
he should be even Idly considering
such a thing over his last cigar for the
night, In his library. "Nol" And he
threw the cigar Into the empty fire
place and went to bed.
Ills bitterness for himself might
have worn away, but never his bitter
ness for Isabel. He took that thought
to bed with him and It wa true that
nothing George could do would ever
change this bitterness of Eugene. Only
George's mother could have changed It.
And as Eugene fell asleep that
night, thinking thus bitterly of
Georgle, Georgle In the hospital was
thinking of Eugene. He thought of Eu
gene Morgan and of the Major; they
seemed to be the same person for
awhile, but he manged to disentangle
them and even to understand why he
hnd confused them. Long ago his
grandfather had been the roost strik
ing figure of success In the town : "As
rich as Major Amberson !" they used to
say. Now It was Eugene. "If I had
Eugene Morgan's money," he would
hear the workmen day-dreaming at the
chemical works; or, "If Eugene Mor
gan had hold of this place you'd see
things hum 1" And the boarders at the
table d'hote spoke of "the Morgan
Place" as an eighteenth-century
Frenchman spoke of Versailles. Like
his uncle, George had perceived that
the "Morgnn Place" was the now Am
berson mansion. His reverie went bac!t
to the palatial days of the mansion, In
his boyhood, when he would gallop his
pony up the driveway and order the
darkey stablemen about, while they
whooped and obeyed, and his grandfa
ther, observing from a window, would
laugh and call out to him: "That's
right, Georgle. Make those lazy ras
cals Jump !" He remembered his gay
young nncles, and how the town was
eager concerning everything about
them, and about himself. What'a clean,
pretty town It had been I And In his
reverie he saw like a pageant before
hlra the magnificence of the Amber
sons Its passing, and the passing of
the Ambersons themselves. They had
been slowly engulfed without knowing
how to prevent It, and almost without
knowing what was happening to them.
The family lot, In the shabby old quar
ter, out at the cemetery, held most of
them now; and the name xvas swept
altogether from the new city. The
Ambersons hnd passed, and the new
people would pass, and the new people
that came after them, and the next
new ones, and the next and the
had begun to mnrmnr, and the
man on duty as night nurse for the
ward came and bent over him.
"Did yon want something?"
"There's nothing In this family busi
ness," George told him confidentially.
"Even George Washington Is only
something in a book."
Eugene read a report of the accident
In the next morning's paper. He was
on the train, having Just left for New
York, on business, and with less leis
ure would probably have overlooked
the obscure Item:
LEGS BROKEN.
O. A. Mlnafer, an employee of the Ak
ers Chemical company, wai run down by
an automobile yesterday at the corner of
Tennessee and Main and had both legs
broken. Mlnafer was to blame for the
accident, according to Patrolman F. A.
Kax. who witnessed the affair. The auto
mobile was a small one driven by Herbert
Cottleman of'2173 Noble avenue, who stat
ed that he was making- less than four
miles an hour. Mlnafer Is said to belong
to a family formerly of considerable prom
inence In the city. He was taken to the
City hospital, where physicians stated
later that he was suffering- from Internal
Injuries besides the fracture of his legs,
but might recover.
Eugene read the Item twice, then
tossed the paper upon the opposite seat
of his compartment, and sat looking
out of the window. His feeling toward
Georgle was changed not a Jot by his
human pity for Georgle's human pain
and Injury. He thought of Georgle's
tall and graceful figure, and he shiv
ered, but his bitterness was untouched.
He had never blamed Isabel for the
xveakness which hnd cost them the few
years of happiness they might have
hnd together; he had put the blame
all on the son, and It stayed there.
He began to think poignantly of Isa
bel. He closed bis eyes and saw her
as she had been long ago. He saw the
brown-eyed, brown-haired, proud, gen
tle, laughing girl he had known when
first he came to town, a boy Just out
of the State college. He remembered
as he had remembered ten thousand
times before the look she gave him
when her brother George Introduced
him to her at a picnic; It was "like
hazel starlight" he had written her, In
a poem, afterward. He remembered
Ids first call at the Amberson mansion,
and what a great personage she
seemed, at home in that magnificence;
and yet so gay and friendly. He re
membered the first time be hnd danced
with her and the old waltz song be
gan to beat In his ears and In his
heart.
All the way to New York It seemed
to him that Isabel was near hlni, and
he wrote of her to Lucy from bis hotel
the next night:
"I saw an account of the accident
of George Minafer. I'm sorry, though
the paper states that It was plainly
his own fault, I suppose It may have
been as a result of my attention fall
lug upon the Item that I thought of bis
mother a great deal on the way here.
It seemed to me that I bad never seen
her more distinctly or so constantly,
but, as you know, thinking of his moth
er is not very apt to make me admire
him! Of course, however, he lias my
best wishes for li't recovery."
He posted the letter, 'and by th
morning's mull received one from Lucy
written u few hours after his depar
ture from home. She Inclosed the Item
he hud rend on the train ami wrote:
"I thought you might uot see It.
"I have seen Miss Fanny and she
has got hlni put Into a room by hi in
self, oh. poor Hides Down Kverj thing!
I have been thinking so constantly of
bis mother und It seemed to me that 1
have never seen her more distinctly
How lovely aba was and how sue
loved hlni 1"
gyre y&mmm
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