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ubrrit BASIN itMES GEYSER JUDITH BASIN TIMES AGEN- CY -Ford A Ford because A Ford you the most pleasure the least expense. IVIIJNDALE 0:14 A. M. 4:35 P.M. i:35 P. M. 11:14 A.M. •ss trip 1•1 Falls is her sister. Splint Kim ealld•r be- hite School inc friends igh. wits a s. !Mattson Lehigh. •ek, was a Ion e part y 111 irst of Ho- s t -.iiui iii ei patent ;reat Fall- Aim- trip Irt of last Creal isit ing - - Vied 1Vard and a Al r. Curtis. hot h Of idi, at Falls. ',vote in tdoyser Monday koking :after the 1Varil property here. n't forget the hig dam, anal basket sovial at the Opera loalse I (Saluda'. i evening. i• invited ii, attend tin , DAVI r and BASK ET \1 )11.1.1. at the Oleg.. Idolise toiuiuii row night. I.. F. Coughlin is enjoying a visit from his aunt. Mrs, Joe n1 . 01111144 14 Sea t M arrised Alottility. !dr. and Mrs. Ileratil Byrne and son. of Heaton. were ovtr last Saturday and took in the dime at the Edgar d plade. NI. Ity rile was again made grandpa by the :onkel of a fine boy at the hum, of III . . and Mrs. Paul Schrieher. of I )eti t.m. last Sunday morning. and Airs. I/rew, who are . , here visit ing their daughter. lir , . William Laney . are spending t he week in Lew - i64.1%1 NOTICE NI itv• basing left my bed arid . i. I. C. E. Struthers, refuse to pay .0 III,. hills contracted by her from this date. lo'a 12. ' i , employed IS t •st nda STRUTHERS. ; .•,1 tompau . % tile. 1 tat, slier.- the . % •.. tt lei 111.1 k, their (tome I •. ti /Neil I. %%ell iiit Iii- se. tI ... having spent hi., or iota year- m ond wound ungels join .11 extending 10,41.1 11. s. 11. I:, Ross ar.1 fa 111i 1.1 • 14 1 , ' . .11 hied hy Ali tat bet'. left about \ • loek Tuesday morning lot I lio la 11 h near Red Lodge. They th, trip in Iii, Koril all, Lynn at t WI el. Thev spent . 1 isesday night ii' I.:Irina and a rriVell it. Billings el..% ...elork . They IF spoil i about a iii..Iit t lie :kiwi, looking after tin. haying. CARD OF THANKS 1Ve .1. -Lire to our I lin hiss all 1 114,1 1 1 -felt appri•d•ido id.r the many kind sei vi,-.-. nendet ...I a 11,1 1 '.vet s 'a hidu re i% during lb.- illness and ail, of our 'wig.% e.1 a if,. moll. en. _\i,.._ Itenedrrnaci....-hr. JOHN IX .13.11'SCHN !WI{ K.111 l'SCHN DEli if 1 1 IN kA Nips( EIDER. I:11E1 N.11IPSI'llNill/Eli LINN K.1A1PsilINF.110:1; K.%.‘11>st Nutt NOTICE First class shoe shop will he opened In connect:on the I. .1. Lire\ harness shop. iK HIRE .A. l Andersou a... doe, Ii 110111 Ve hart. Suilte gal% anized iron II, - eat Falls last Fi iila to look ;mei (loughs. Half mice takes. them. lllll nigh his viol...11y int el est s about C.., 1:y, 44 !Math 1.11. hill .1 .1I., 1.4 Lilt.. .%111. 'NI . 1: l eat 1 \1 the 111441114. of t lie la ,„ ,•;, Sliss oiNed wits :1/1 II.. !! 1..teher 10 the ',la e!. i arid at the title: Clerk ;in ..; as _ a 11 .114'(.1 ---sill 1 and nob t lailier - Ro‘, Mew:intik 1 . 0. ANNOUNCEMENT I hereby announce plyself as it daiiilidiate for the poi ll i ll of County oniiiiissioner. at the g primaries on the Republican ticket, and respect- fully solieit the support of friends. Have been a resident of ('aseade aunty far ,twelity -six ,years, am en- gaged in the Ittisiness of farming and postoltice addles:: is Armington, Ionia FRANK I). JOSCELYN. Geyser I tailless Shop I have recently opened a harness and repair shoo in the old Johnson building. All kinds of rspairing neatly done. Prices reasonable, wash - mg 14nd oiling harness $1.50 a set. Your pat- ronage solicited. I J. Carey • • 6 ' 1 / 4 ' 1 ill I i g ht 1-.,1 • 001% 11, 1110 , Sherman- -tut, .i„ fl 1 NI 0 ,resi ent - on I..t I - i.le. fir!. I. .10111irl•on awl eiN tro ssiolz 111-; s t•ot, aeres. 11 1 II ,iil 41 1 0t 911 1 .11 11.1 1 11111111.. of )1. II. 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Tiirse gent 1, -tic r ngaged In are painters by tiade and ate .1111 11/e/IV Dia litter. 11011 it vatut.1011 f1 - 1111111 a 1111 1 41 .11 Ill 1111•1\.. ba.ian ,_ nods in their home t ti They had Id. ail eleven gil\lit f \ ia \ --1- ' 1 \'\ n \ F. Cobh, OW 1 --PI real --tai,. '.'.mnrk is Mall. is plot t 1011.1 bet a eel. 1 oe . 't -ei 1.11.1 sp . frti. 5111..11 it is Howled I.. F. ciao . to miners or the Billie distliet it. 3 \.„ 1 for ni-aere tracts. Some ,a), h ate a l while 4.1141,V 1/4.1q1 tuici.lm cituit it I. V!, 111,11 , 1 rter th ,, v that fl feW families fur,, 41111 I.- al 111. k lig t heir homes there by tall. 41.11F With /telt 'fillies. agh rat Fall - lack 11111 rip ..1.'t - out front Ihe liditei.• just re , Aid - i , con- attt add• - t It•lin Healey. of the N. Mart [Joel,. ••••mpan . •. sss • lei-qa1••• 4 Idler tom Williams Paint Best Pit MI Sold. Jui If 11:11 - fl of Excellent Quality Priced Right We lake 1 'MO Isec•ive none of our cornytitors aprroach us in the thorough - urn and d'x • 'lead, ot out motor Iii I 'l ill comes • knowledge m 11.1Ce Our work ic always better than v.111 will find done elsewhere, In Oa• chlrgrs are lowe than •.ilieri• make Better lund out dur style of doing work. The Geyset- Garage C., R. RASMI ;SSIA, Prop. AUTO REPAIR WORK. TIRES and ACCESSORIES. Belt AVednesilay. Alr. Ifortir-,. - mid that he woad he il.d.vt• Atte' ti via the 'fill route. %Void - °tie' t_ley - se,r „pd.,. in hi hot ri t ;a ri, ear and it i• 1e1dolt••1 that ‘ir. %Lo(i. milies it wdaddi rain atfd•iii lou Ii. wiaii like to enjoy till i, id I. a. - sd A numbei dl p il. 1-111 -I. people ittddridi tI..- iaIj u al ,,i tle Nit , . B. nedina i. iiIt', M.- r :411,1 rhea it 1111° ni 111 %41, 1, I. t 14.• 141. *O. 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Webber art(' united in llia ft i,n ; , r ;eyser, lout aria AmenIcan Plan s2.00 per nay It'ates hi 11 . cck Scr-ice (Vecial . , litention to Coannereiat Travelers ••••••••ffl.••••••I AYbk/i31' //EDE. 1N, Proh 1.1111111 1 411111EMIIMITri ' MINIMINSPIgH10191111.110W- 1 1 - 618111. 1 1111$11111.1111.111W • Won._ A - The Turmoil By BOOTH TAIRKINGTON (Copyright tilla. by Harper a Brothers> SYNOPSIS. Sheridan's attempt to make a business man of his son BIbba by starting him In the machine shop ends In Hibbs going to a sanitarium, a nervous wreck. On his re- turn Hibbs finds himself an inconsider- able and Unconsidered figure in the \New }louse\ of the Sherldans. The Vertreeses, old -town family next door and Impover- ished, call on the Sherldans, newly -rich and Mary afterward puts into words her parents' unspoken wish that she marry tune of the Sheridan boys. Mary frankly encourages Jim Sheridan's attentions. Jim tells Mary Bibbs is not a lunatic -\Just queer.\ He proposes to Mary, who half accepts him. Sheridan tells Hibbs he must go back to the machine shop as soon as he is strong enough, in spite of )Iibbs' plea to be allowed to write. Edith, Ribble sister, and Sibyl, Roscoe Sheridan's wife, quarrel over Bobby Lamborn; Sibyl goes to Mary for help to keep Lamborn from marrying Edith, and Mary leaves her In the room alone. Snubs has to break to his father the news of ..firn's sudden death. All the rest or the family helpless In their grief, Bibb° becomes temporary master of the house. At the funeral he meets Mary and rides home with her. 'Wm purposely interrupts a tete-a-tete between Edith and Lamborn. Ile tells Edith that he overheard Lamhorn mak- ing love to Roscoe's wife. Doctor Gurney finds Bibbs well enough to go back to the machine shop. Mary and Bib's meet by accident and form a pleasant friendship. Roscoe Sheridan and his wife quarrel desperately about Bobby Lamborn. 0iot..0. , .000re,„4 00. p.100000000001. a Imagine the feelings of a t - ,3 hard-working, dutiful husband a when he learns that his wife is dangerously flirting with a O worthless bachelor -and when • his wife defies him to do any• thing about the matter. Does • such a situation Justify divorce, notwithstanding the \until death do us part\ vow? a a iii •‘3, Ei ill El 0 00MOEIMGOOD-E - 104M00E. CHAPTER XVI-Continued. \Won't you come in?\ urged Mrs. Vertrees, cordially, bearing the sound of a cheerful voice out of the darkness beyond the approaching glare of auto- mobile headlights. \Do! There's Mary now, and she-\ But Sibyl was half -way across the atreet. \No. thanks,\ she called. \I hope she won't miss her piano!\ And she ran into her own house and plunged headlong upon a leather divan In the hall, holding her handkerchief over her mouth. The noise of her tumultuous entrance was evidently startling, for there fol- lowed the crash of a decanter upon the floor of the dining room, and, after a rumble of indistinct profanity. Roscoe came forth, bolding a dripping napkin In his hand. \What's your excitement?\ he de- manded. \What do you find to go Into hysterics over? Another death in the family?\ \Oh. it's funny!\ she gasped. \Those old frost-bitten people! I guess they're getting their comeupancel\ Lying prone. she elevated her feet in the air, clapping her heels together re- peatedly, in an ecstasy. \Come through, come through!\ said her husband, crossly. \What you been up to?\ \Me?\ she cried, dropping her feet and swinging around to face him. \Nothing. It's them! Those Vertreeses!\ She wiped her eyes. \They've had to sell their piano!\ \Well what of it?\ \That Mrs. Kittersby told me al about 'em a week ago,\ said Sibyl \They've been hard up for a long time r es.star-e-e_a, \I Want to Know What You Say Over the Telephone to Lamhorn.\ and she says as long ago as last winter she knew that girl got a pair of walk- ing shoes re -soled and patched. because she got it done the same place Mrs. Kittersby's cook had hers!\ \Well well?\ he urged, impatiently. \Well I'm telling you! Mrs. Miters - by says they haven't got a thing! Jute absolutely nothing -and they don't know anywhere to turn! She says the whole town's been wondering what would become of 'ern. The girl had plenty chances to marry up to a year or so ago, but she was so indifferent she scared the men off. Gracious! they were lucky! Marry her? The ntall that found himself tied up to that girl-\ \Terrible funny, terrible funny!\ said Roscoe, with sarcasm. \It's so funny I broke a cut glass decanter and spilled a quart of-\ \Wait!\ she begged. \You'll see. I saw a big wagon drive up and some men go into the house. Well, I thought I'd see, so I slipped over -and It was their piano! They'd solti it and were trying to sneak it out after dark. so nobotly'd catch on!\ Again she gave way to her enjoyment, but re - Burned. as her husband seemed about to interrupt the narrative, \Wait a minute, can't you? Yes, they'd sold it; and I hope they'll pay some of their debts. They owe everybody, and last week a coal dealer made tin awful fuss at the door with Mr. Vertrees. Their cook told our upstairs gii l. and she said she didn't know when she'd seen any money, herself ilid you ever hear of such a case as that girt in your life?\ \What girl! Their cook?\ \That Vertrees girl'. Doit't you see they looked on our collate; Ill) into this neighborhood as their last chance? They were just going dowu anal oui, and here bobs up the green, rich Sheri- dan faintly! So they send tier out to get a Sheridan -she's got to get one! And she just goes in blind; anti Jim was landed -there's no doubt about that! But Jim was lucky: he didn't live to stay landed, and it's a good thing for him!\ Sibyl's mirth had van- ished, and she spoke with virulent ra- pidity. \Well she coulde't get yoW because you were married, and she couldn't get Jinn, beteiti , ... Jim died. And there they were. dead broke! Do you know what she did? 1 ••• you know what she's doing?\ \No. I don't,\ said Ros....... gruffly. Sibyl's voice nisi- and d maiihmtddil In a scream of renewed inih , i , y. \Hibbs: She waited in the gra veyar.l. and drove home with him from .1 funt•ral! Never spoke to him before! Jim wasn't cold!\ She rocked herself back and forth upon the divan. - Midis!\ she nlirleked. \Blithe! Roscoe, thiek of it! Hibbs!\ He stared unsympa t het ically. but her mirth was unabated for all that. \And yesterday,\ she continued, be- tween parosysms-\yesterday she came out of the house -Just. as he was passing. She must have I•i•••ii looking out -waiting the chance; I saw the old lady watt•iiing at the whitlow! And she got him there last night -10 to him; the old hilly gave that away! And today she made him take ller out In a machine! And the cream ..f It Is that they didn't even know ' 'tether he was insane or not -they thought may- be he W118, hilt she went after him just the same! The old 1:1,1‘ set her- self to pump me about it today. Hibbs' Oh, my bora! Hibbs!\ But Roscoe -looked grim. \So it's funny to you, is it? It eounils kind of pitiful to me. I should think it would to a woman. too.\ \Ob. It might,\ she returned, sober- ing. \It might, If those people wt•ren't such frozen -faced smart Alecks. If they'd had the decency to come down off the perch a little I probably wouldn't think it was funny, but to see 'eat sit up on their petit•stal all the time they're eating dirt -well, I think It's funny! That girl sits imp as if she was Queen Elizabeth. and expects people to wallow on the ground before her until they get near enough for her to give 'eni a good kick with her old patched shops--oh. alie'd do that, all right! -and then she powders up anti goes out to mash-Bibbs Slieritlan!\ \Look here.\ said Roscoe. heavily: \I don't care about that one way or another. If you're through. I got something I want to talk to you about. I was going to. that day just before we h ea rd Rballt Jim.\ At this Sibyl stiffened quickly: her eyes became intensely bright. \What is it?\ \Well he began. frowning, \what I was going to say then- - He broke off, and, liecoming couscious that he wag still holding the wet napkin in his -hand, threw It pettishly into a corner. \I never expected I'd have to say any- thing like this to anybody I married: but I was going to musk you what e - as the matter between you and Lam- horn. \ Sibyl tittered a sharp monosyllable \Weil?\ \I felt the time had come for me to know about it.\ he went on. \You never told tire anything--\ \You never asked.\ she interposed. curtly. \Well we'd got In a way of not talking much.\ said itoseoe. \It leoks to me now as If we'd pretty meet) i t ,f the run of ench other the way a goof! meny people do. I don't say it a - Isn't Ins fault. I was up early and down to work ejl day. and Ed route home tired at night, and went to go to lied soon as I'd got the paper reati-iinteas there Was some good musical show in town. Well, you seemed all right until here lately, the last month or so. I began see something wee wrong. I couldn't he ‘ i • P W s r ee en in g g ?\ it tli ' le said. \What liter \Yon ehanged; you didn't look the same. You were all strung up and eX- cited and fidgety; you got to looking peakid and run down. Now then, Lam - horn had been going with us a good while, but I noticed that not long ago you got to picking on him about every little thing he did; you got to quarrel- ing with him when I was there and when I wasn't. I could see you'd been quarreling whenever I came in and he was here.\ \Do you object to that?\ asked Sibyl, breathing quickly. \Yes -when it injures my wife's health!\ he returned, with a quick lift of his eyes to hers. \You began to run down just about the time you began falling out with him.\ He stepped close to her. \See here, Sibyl. I'm go- ing to know what it means.\ \Oh you are?\'ehe snapped. \That was what you were going to say the other day. Yes. What else have you to say tonight?\ \Tonight he replied, with grim swiftness, \I want to know why you \My Name,\ Said Roscoe, \Can Help That.\ keep telephoning him you want to see him since lie stopped coining here.\ She made a long. low sound of com- prehension before she sail. \And what else did Edith want you to ask me?\ \I want to know what you say over the telephone to Laniliorn,\ be said, fiercely. \Is that all Edith told you to ask me? You saw her when you stopped in there on your way borne this eve- ning, didn't you? Didn't she tell you then what I said over the tele- phone to Mr. Lamliorn?\ \No she didn't!\ he vociferated, his voice growing louder. \She said. 'You tell your wife to stop telephoulog Rob- ert Lamhorn to conic and see ner, be- cause he isn't going to do it!' That's what she said! And I want to know what it means. 1 intent]-\ A Maid appeared at the lower end of the hall. \Dinner is reedy,\ she Said, and, giving the troubled pair one glance. went demurely Into the dining room. Roscoe disregarded the inter- ruption. \I intend to know exactly what has heen going on.\ he declared. \I mean to know just what-\ Sihyl _jumped up, almost touching him, standing face to face with hini. \Oh yotl do!\ she cried, shrilly. \You mean to know Just what's what, do you? You listen to your sister insinu- ating ugly things about your wife, anti then you Coale home making a scene before the servants and humiliating time in their presence! Do you suppose that Irish girl didn't bear every word sum saiul? You go In there and eat your dinner alone! Co on! Co and eat your dinner alone --because I won't eat with you!\ And she broke away from the detain- ing grasp he sought to fasten upon her, and dashed up the stairway. pant- ing. Ile heard the door of her room slam overhead, and the sharp click of the key In the lock. CHAPTER XVII. At seven o'clock - on the last morn- ing of that month, Sheridan. passing thr•mgh the upper bail. found a cou- ple of scribble() sheets of note paper lying on the floor. Ile recognized the handwriting and put the sheets in his coat pocket, intending to give them to George or Jackson for return to the owner, hut lie forgot and Carried them downtown with him. At noon he found himself alone in his office. and, barite: a little, leis , tire, remembered the bits of manuscript, took thetu out. and glanced at them. Having satisfied himself that Midis' seribblings were only a sample of the kind of writing his son prt.ferred to the machine shop. Ite derided, innocently enough. that lie would Ii,' J11:41 Hied in reading them. lt app-ars that a lady will nod pleas- antly 1111011 A01111. windy generalization of Ii c..01011 Mon. ci nil Will wear the most agreeabie expression of accepting it as the law. and theti-days afterward. when mho thing is a mummy to Its promulgator -she will Inquire out of a clear sky: - Why did you Fay that the people down- t.an 11aVO nothing in llfe that a chicken hasn't? What (lid you mean?” And she may say it in a manner tints makes a reply very (11ffl.•111t -y0I1 111 he so frill of wonder that she remembered so serlouslr. Vot, whiUt dors the rooster lack? He Math food laid shelter; he Is warm In win- ter. his PTV., raise not one line family for him, but d,'zern hl,' has a clear sky over him; he breathes sweet air: he walks in Ills April orcoaril under a roof of flow- ers. He mast die. violently perhaps, hut j quickly. IR Midas' cancer a better way? The rooster's wives and children must dle. Are those of Midas immortal/ Hal life is ehortor than the lire or Midas, but Midas' tuoi crty a sixth as tons as that of the /b almy po tortoise. Th e ?faster is • dependent; he depends upon the farmer and the weather. Midas Is a dependent; he depends upon the farmer and the weather. The rooster thinks only of the moment: Midas pro- vides for tomorrow. What does he pro - Vide for tomorrow? Nothing that the rooster will not have without providing. The rooster and the prosperous worker: they are born, they grub, they love: they grub and love grubbing; they grub and they due. Neither knows beauty; neither k nows knowledge. And after all, when Midas and the rooster dies, there is one thing Midas has had and rooster has not. Midas has had the excitement of accumu- lati n g what he has grubbed, and that has been his life and his love and his god. He cannot take that god with him when he dies. I wonder it the worthy gods are those we can take with us. Antes must teach all to be as Midas: the young must be ralleed in his religion - The manuscript ended there, and Sheridan was not anxious for more. He crumpled the sheets into a ball, depos- iting it (with vigor) in a wastebasket beside him; then, rising, he consulted a i_lyclopedia of Names, which a book agent had somehow sold to him years efore; a volume now first put to use for the location of \Midas.\ Having read the legend. Sheridan walked up and clown the spacious office, exhaling the breath of contempt. \Dam' fool!\ he mumbled. Ile felt very lonely, and thls was, daily, his hardest hour. For a long time he and Jim had lunched together habitually at a small restaurant near the Sheridan building, where they spent twenty minutes in the consump- tion of food, and twenty in talk, with cigars. But now Sheridan remained alone in his office; he had not gone out to lunch since Jim's death, nor did he have anything sent to him -he fasted until evening. It was the time he missed Jim per. sonally the most -the voice and eyes and handshake, all brisk and alert, ell businesslike. But Sheridan', sense of loss went far deeper. Jim was tile one who would have been surest to keep the great property growing greater, year by year. Sheridan bad fallen asleep, night after night, pictnring what the growth would be under Jim. He had believed that Jima was abso- lutely certain to he one of the biggest men In the country. Well, it was all up to Roscoe now! That reminded him of a question he had in mind to ask Roscoe. It was a question Sheridan considered of no present importance. but his wife had suggested it -though vaguely -and he had meant to speak to itoscoe about it. However, Roscoe had not come into his father's office for several days, and when Sheridan had seen his eon at home there had been no opportunity. Ile waited until the greater part of hitt day's work was over, toward four o'clock. and then went down to Ros- coe's office, which was on a lower floor. Ile found several men waiting for host- nen' Interviews in an outer room of the series Roacoe occupied; nnd he sup- posed that he would find his son busy with others, and that his question would have to be postponed, but when he entered the door marked \It. C. Sheridan. Private,\ Roscoe was there alone. He was sitting with his back to the door, his feet on a wlielow•sill, and he did not turn as his father opened the door. \Some pretty good men out there waltin' to see you, niy boy.\ said Sheri- dan. \What's the matter?\ \Nothing Roscoe answered indis- tinctly, not moving. \Well I guess that's all right. too. I let 'em wait sometimes myself! I just wanted to ask you a question. hut I expect It'll keep, If you're workin' something out in your mind.\ Roscoe made no reply; and lile fa- ther, who had turned to the door. paused with hie hand on the knob, etaring curiously at the motionless figure in the chair. Usually the son seemed pleased and eager when lie came to the office. \You're all right, ain't you?\ said Sheridan. \Not sick, are you?\ \No.\ Sheridan was puzzled; then, abrupt- ly, he decided to ask his question. \I wanted to talk to you about that young Lamhorn.\ he said. \I guess your mother thinks he's comin' to see Edith pretty often, and you know him longer 'n any of US, 80--\ \I won't,\ said Roscoe, thiekly-1 won't any a dam' thing about him!\ Sheridan tittered an exclamation and walked quickly to a position near the window where lie could see his son's face. Itoscoe'n eyes were bloodshot and vacuous: his hair was disordered, his mouth was distorted, and he was deathly pale. The father stood aghast. \By George!\ he muttered. \Ros- coe!\ - My name,\ Raid Roscoe. \Can' help that.\ \Roscoe!\ Blank astonishment Was Sherldan's first sensation. Probably nothing In the world could have more amazed hlm than to find Roscoe -the steady old wheel -horse -in this condi- tion. \Ilow'd you get this way?\ be demanded. \You caught cold and took too much for It?\ For reply Roscoe laughed hoarsely. \Yeah! Cold! I been drinkun all time, lately. Firs' you notiee it?\ \By George!\ cried Sheridan. \I thought I'd smelt It on youa good deal lately. but I wouldn't 'a' believed you'd take more'n was good for you. Boil! To see you like R common hog!\ Roscoe chuckled and threw out his right arm in a meaningless gesture. \Hog!\ he repeated. chuckling. \Yes a hog!\ said Sheridan. angrily. 'In business hours! I don't object to anybody's takin' a drink if he wants to. out o' business hours; nor, If a matt keeps his work right tip to the scratch. I wouldn't be the one to baste hint If he got good an' drunk once in two, three years, maybe. It ain't my way. I let it alone, but I never believed In forcin' my way on a grown-up son In moral matters. I guess I was wrong! You think them men out there are waitin' to talk business with a drunk- ard? Yom think you can come to your office and do business drunk? By George! I wonder how often this has been happening and me not on to it! I'll have a look over your books tomor- row, and Cit- Roscoe stumbled to his feet, laugh- ing wildly, and stood swaying, con- triving to hold himself in position by clutching the back of the heavy chair In which he had been sitting. \Hoo--hoorah!\ he cried. \'S my principles, too. Be .drunken all you want to -outside business hours. Don' for Gossake le'n'tbing innerfere busi- ness hours! Business!! Thassit! You're right, father. Drink! Die! L'every- \ thing go to hell, but don't let innerfere business! Sheridan had seized the telephone upon Roscoe's desk, and Was calling his own office, overhead. \Abercrom- bie? Come down to my son Roscoe's suite and get rid of some gentlemen that are waitin' there to see him in roonm two -fourteen. YOU needn't come in to let me know they're gone; we don't want to be disturbed. Tell Pau - ley to call my house and send Claus down here with a closed car. We way have to go out. Tell him to bustle, and call me at Roscoe's room as soon as the car gets here. \I\s all!\ Roscoe had laughed bitterly through- out this monologue. \Drunk in busi- ness hours! Thass awril Millen' do such thing! Mus'n' get drunk, mns'n' gamble, mus'n' kill 'nybody-not iii business hours! All right any other time. Kill 'nybody you want to -'s long 'tain't in business hours! Fine' atus'n' have any trouble 't 'II inner- fere bushiest'. Keep your trouble 't home. Don' bring it to th' office. Might innerfere business! Don't let your wife innerfere business! Keep all, all. all your trouble an' your meanness, an' your trad-your tragedy -keep 'em all for home use! If you got die, go on die 't tionme--don' dle round time office! Might innerfere business!\ Sheridan picked up a newspaper from Roscoe's desk, and sat down with his back to his son, affecting to read. Roscoe seemed to be unaware of his father's significant posture. \You know wh' I think?\ he went on. \I think Bibbs only one the thinly any 'tellIgence at all. Won' work, an' di'n' get married. .1Int worked. an' he got killed. I worked. ale I got mar- ried. Look at me! Jus' look at me. I ask you. Fine 'dustriss young busi- ness num. Look whass happen' to me! Fine!\ He lifted ids hand from the sustaining chair in a deplorable ges- ture, anti immediately losing his bal- ance. fell across tile chair and car- omed to the floor with a crash, re- maining prostrate for several min- utes, during which Sheridan did not relax his apparent attention to the newspaper. He did not even look round at the sound of itoscoe's fall. Roscoe slowly climbed to an up- right position, pulling himself up by holding to the chair. lie was slightly sobered outwardly. having progressed in the prostrate interval to a state of befuddlement less volatile. Ile rubbed his dazed eyes with the back of his left band. \What -what you ask me while ago?\ he said. \Nothin'.\ \Yes you did. What -what WR9 itr \Nothin'. You better Fit down.\ \You ask' me what I thought about Lamborn. You did ask me that. Well. I won't tell you. I won't say dam' word 'bout him!\ The telephone hell tinkled. Sheridan placed the receiver to his ear and said. \Right down.\ Then he got Roscoe's coat and hat from a closet and brought them to his son. \Get into this coat,\ be said. \You're gob' home.\ \All ri',\ murmured Roscoe, obedl en - went out into the main hall his i st. y le T tl a side door. Roscoe walked out of the building without lurching. and twenty minutes later walked into his own I house in the samne manner, neither he nor his father having spoken a word In s th he e ri l ( n in t n erv d a id i. not go In with him: he went borne, and to his own room with- out meeting any of his family. But as he passed Mims' door he heard from within the sound of a cheerful young voice humming Jubilant fragments of song: Who looks the mustang in the eye? With a leap from the ground To the saddle In a bound. And awuay-and away! Hi-yay! It was the first time In Sheridan's life that he had ever detected any musical symptom whatever in Ilibbe- he had never even heard him whistle -and it seemed the last touch of irony that the useless fool should be merry today. To Sheridan it was Tom o' Bedlam singing while the house burned; and lie t ay did not tarry to enjoy the nielody, but went into his own room and locked the door. CHAPTER XVIII. He emerged only Upon a second RUM- mons to dinner, two hours later, and came to the table so white anti silent that lila wife made her anxiety mani- fest and Wag but partially reassured by his explanation that his lunch had \disagreed\ with him a little. Presently. however. tie spoke effec- tively. Hibbs. whose appetite had be- come hearty, Was helping himself to a second breast of capon from white- jackela salver. \litre's another dif- ference between Midas and chicken.\ Sheridan remarked, grimly. \I reckon you overlooked that. Midas looks to me like he had the advantage there.\ Hibbs retained enough presence of mind to transfer the capon breast to his plate without droppidg it and to respond. \Yea -he crows over it.\ • Having returned his antagonist's Ere In this fashion, he blushed -for he could blush distinctly now -and his mother looked upos him with plesigire, though the reference to Midas and roosters was of course Jargon to her. \Did you ever see anybody improve the way that child has!\ she exclaimed. \I declare, Hibbs, sometimes lately you look right handsome!\ \He's got to be such a gadabout,' Edith giggled. \I found something of his on the - floor upstairs this morning, before any- body was up,\ said Sheridan. \I reckon if people lose timings in this house and expect to get 'em back, they better get up as soon as I do.\ \What was it he lost?\ asked Edith. \He knows!\ her father returned. \Seems to me like I forgot to bring it home with me. I looked It over - thought probably it was something pretty important, belongin' to a busy man like him.\ He affected to search his pockets. \What elid rtio with it, now? Oh yes! Seems to me like I re- member leavin' it down at the ()Ske- in the waste basket. \Good place for it,\ Hibbs mur- mured, still red. Sheridan gave him a grin. \Perhaps pretty soon you'll be gettin' up early enough to find things before I do!\ It was a threat, and Blimbs repeated the substance of it, later in the eve - fling, to Mary Vertrees-they had come to know each other that well. \My time's here at last,\ he said, as they sat together in the melancholy gas light of the room which had been de- nuded of its piano. But the gas light. though from a single Jet, shed' no - melancholy upon Bibba, nor could any room seem bare that knew the glow- ing presence of Mary. lie spoke lightly, not sadly. \Yes it's come. I've shirked and put it off. but I can't shirk and put off any longer. It's really my part to go to hlm-at least it would save my face. He means what he says, and the time's come to serve my sentence. Hard labor for life, I think.\ Mary shook her head. \I don't think so. tie's too kind.\ \You think my father's kind?\ And Hibbs stared at her. \Yes. I'm sure of it. I've felt that he has a great. brave heart. It's only that he has to be kind in his own way -bevause be can't understand any other way.\ \Ah yes,\ said Bibbs. \If that's what you mean by 'kind'!\ She looked at him gravely, earnest concern in her friendly eyes. \It's go- ing to be pretty hard for you. isn't it?\ \Oh -self-pity!\ he returned, smiling. has been Just the last flicker of \Tomorrow I'll Be a Day Laborer.\ revolt. Nobody minds work if ha likes the kind of work. There'd be no loafers in the world if each man found the timing that he could do best; but the only work I happen to want to do is useless -so I have to give It up. To- morrow I'll be a day laborer.\ \What is it like -exactly?\ \It wasn't muscularly exhausting - not at all. They coultin't give me a heavier Job because I wasn't good enough.\ \But what will you do? I want to know.\ \Mien I left,\ said BIWA, \I was 'on' what they call doer there a 'clip- ping machine,' and that's what I'll be sent back to. It's very simple and very easy. I feed long strips of zinc into a pair of steel jaws, and the jaws bite the zinc into little circles. And yet I was a very bad hand at it.\ He had kept his voice cheerful as he spoke, but he had grown a shade paler, and there was a latent anguish deep in his eyes. Be may have known it and wished her not to see it, for he turned away. \You do that ell day long'\ she ex- claimed. \No wonder-\ She broke off. and then, after a keen glance at his face, she said: \I should think you would have been a 'bad hand at it'!\ He laughed ruefully. \I think It's the noise, though I'm ashamed to say It. You see. it's a very powerful ma- chine, and there's a sort of rhythmical crashing -a crash every time the jaws bite off a circle.\ RIXIXIMIXIMIXIARIFIXIKIXTarttralitU Do you believe that delicate, high-strung Bibba will he able to stand the din and monotony of work In the shop -how long do you think he will last at the Job? - - I 0 •:d 0 u:. i:u 0:. 0 0 ru ri u•• c• Cr0 BE CONTINUED.) , ( . • _
