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"Why?"
"It seems to me he looks so badly. Everybody thinks so."
"What nonsense!" George laughed. "He's been looking that way all
summer. He isn't much different from the way he's looked all his
life, that I can see. What's the matter with him?"
"He never talks much about his business to me but I think he's been
worrying about some investments he made last year. I think his worry
has affected his health."
"What investments?" George demanded. "He hasn't gone into Mr.
Morgan's automobile concern, has he?"
"No," Isabel smiled. "The 'automobile concern' is all Eugene's, and
it's so small I understand it's taken hardly anything. No; your
father has always prided himself on making only the most absolutely
safe investments, but two or three years ago he and your Uncle George
both put a great deal--pretty much everything they could get together,
I think--into the stock of rolling-mills some friends of theirs owned,
and I'm afraid the mills haven't been doing well."
"What of that? Father needn't worry.


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