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• GEYSER TUDITH BASIN TIMEF a „ . be • lb 11 , • ••• • • at CA C TERM IL f„. 5 .....r........, ... .... ..... ... BOOTH TARKINGTON - - 7.--- \ . \ - --:...- 1 ..•-. -. - Ariz:mow OF ------- \ MONSIEUR IBEAUCAITVE\ \THE CONQUEST OF CANAAN \ \PENROD\ ETC. - f. COPYRIGHT 151/5 .13Y trARPER &RPOTNEA.1.-==...• SYNOPSIS. —12— Sherldan's attempt to make a business man of his son Blbbs by starting him In the machine shop ends in Bibbs going to a sanitarium, a ncrvotts wreck. On his re- turn Bibtts finds himself an inconsider- able and unconsidered figure in the \New House\ of the Sheridans. The Vertreeses. old -town family next door and impover- ished, calls on the Sheridans, newly -rich, and Mary afterward puts into words her parents' unspoken wish that she marry one of the Sheridin boys. Mary frankly encourages Jim Sheridan's at Jitn tells Mary Itibbs Is not a lunatIc—\just queer.\ lie proposes to Mary, who half accepts him. Sheridan tells Bibbs he must go back to the nut' hi shop as soon as lie is strong enough, in spite of Hibbs' plea to be to write. Edith, MIA& ate! Sthvi, Roscoe Sheridan'a wife, quarrel over Bobby Lamborn; Sibyl goes to Mary for help to keep Lamhorn from marrying Edith, and Mary leaves her in the room alone. Bibbs h as to break to his father the news of Jim's sudden death. All the r , s1 of the family helpless In their grief, Itibba beecones temporary master of the house. At the funeral he meets Mat y and rides home with her. 131blei purposely Interrupts a tete-a-tete between Edith and Larnhorn. Ile tells Edith that he overheard Larnhorn mak- ing 1 , .`ee to Rosette's wife. Doctor Gurney finds !Otitis well enough to go back to the maehine shop. Mary and Hibbs meet by aecident and form it pleasant friendship. 'Roscoe Sheridan and his wife quarrel desperately about Bobby Lamborn. Buld, goes to work. Old man Sheridan hurts Ids hand. Edith and Sibyl quarrel again over Larnhorn. who Is ordered off the reml,es by Edith's father. Old Man Sheridan was a slave-driver though he didn't rec- ognize himself as such. He drove his wife. He drove his sons. He drove his daughter. He drove himself. His wife was like putty. There was too much of himself, too much iron, in Edith and in Bibbs to be han- dled easily. Growing out of this situation, two tragic incidents break into the lo!e of the slave- driver. This Installment Is a real thriller. CHAPTER XXIII. !Mita: continued to live In the shelter of his dream. These were turbulent days In the new house. hut Hibbs had no part whatever to the furl iii seemed an ahsent-minded stranger. present liy eve -Went and not wholly aware that he 1V11S present. He would sit. faintly smiling over pleasant imag- inings and dear reminiscences of his own. while battle raged between Edith and her father, or while Sheridan un- loosed Jeremiads upon the sullen Roo. coo, who drank heavily to endure them. Ile was sorry for his father and for Roscoe, and for Edith anti for Sibyl. but their sufferings and outcries seemed far away. Sibyl Was under Gurney's care. Ros- e ae had sent for him on Sunday night. not long after Bibbs returned the aban- dorilsd wraps; and during the first days of Sibyl's Illness the doctor found 11 haeeasary to he with het frequently, Ala to install a muscular.aiurse. And .-elether he would or no, Gurney re- • eyed from his hysterical patient a gaiety of pungent Informetton which s (mid have staggered anybody but a fa -ally physician. Among other things he was given to comprehend the 'Don't Come in, Roscoe,\ She Mur- mured. liange in Blithe, and why the zinc eater was not putting a lump In its operator's gizzard as of yore. • Sibyl was not delirious—she was a hin little ego writhing and shrieking al pain. Life had hurt her, and had Irlven her into hurting heraelf: her condition was only the adult's terrible exaggeration of that of a child after a bu 4 bruise—there must be screaming and telling mother all about the hurt and how It happened. Sibyl babbled herself hoarse when Gurney withheld morphine. She went from the begin - Mug to the end in a breath. No pro- test stopped tier; nothing stopped her. \You ought to let me die!\ she wailed. \What harm have I ever done to anybody that you want to keep me alive? Just look at my life! I only married Roscoe to get away from home, and look what it got me into! . I wanted to have a good timea-- and how could I? Where's any good time among these Slieridans? They never even had wine on the table! I thought I was marrying Into a rich family, where I'd meet attractive people I'd read about, and travel. aml go 10 dances—and, oh. my Lord! all I got was these Sheridans! I did the hest I could; I just tri-.1 to live. . . . Things were just beginning to look brighter, and then I saw how Edith was getting him away from me. And what could 1 do? What can any wom- en do in my fix? I couldn't stand it! I went to that icicle—that Vevirees girl —and she could have helped me a little, and It wouldn't have hurt her. Let her wait!\ Sibyl's voice, hoarse from babbling, became no more than a husky whisper, though she strove to make it loneler. She at half npright, and the It restraitted her. \I'd get up out of this bed to show her she can't do such things to me! I was absolutely' ladylike. and she walked out and left me there alone! She'll see! ! She started after Bible( before Jim's casket was fairly underground. and she thinks she's landed that poor loon—but she'll see! She'll see! And Edith needn't have told What she told Roscoe—it wouldn't have hurt her to let me Alone. Anil he told her I bored him—telephoning him I wanted to see him. Ile needn't have done It. lie lite.ln't—needn't—\ lier voice grew fainter, for that while, with exhaus- tion. though She V:011k1 go over it all again as soon as her strength returned. She lay pataing. Them, seeing her hus- band atamling disheveled In the door- way. \(ain't come ha Roscoe,\ she murmured. \I don't want to see you.\ A nti its he turned away she added. \I'm kind of sorry for you, Roscoe.\ Her antagonist, Edith, was not more takes herself out o' the way and lets you and all the rest of U8 alone,\ \It's no use, father, I tell you. I know what Gurney was going to say to you. I'm not going back to the of- fice. I'm done!\ \Walt a minute before you talk that way!\ Sheridan began his sentry -go up and down the room. \I suppose , you know it's taken two pretty good men about sixteen hours a day to set things straight and get 'em runnite right again, down in your office?\ \They must be good men.\ Itoscoe nodded indifferently. \I thought I was doing about eight inen's work. I'm glad you fouud two that could handle fia• \Look here! If I worked you it was for your own good. There are plenty of men drive harder'n I do, and—\ \Yes. There are some that break down all the other men that work with em. They either die, or go crazy, or have to quit, anti are no use the rest of their lives. The last's niy ease, I gcutilettre13—;c° ffi \ mplicated by domestic di - \You set there and tell me you give up?\ Sherkien's voice shook, and so did the gesticulating hand which he extended appealingly tiovard the de- spondent figure. \Don't do it, ling - cue! Don't say it! Say you'll come down there again and be a man! This woman aiit't goin' to trouble you any more. Tile work ain't goin' to hurt you if you haven't got her to worry you, and you can get shut o' this nasty willaky-guzzlin': It ain't fastened on you yet. Don't say—\ \It's no use on earth,\ Itoseoe mum- bled. \No use on earth.\ \Look here! If you want another month's vaca t ion —\ 'I know Gurney told you, so what's the uso talking eland 'vacations?'\ ; uniey!\ Sheridan vociferated the. name savagely. \It's Gurney, Gur- ney. (lumpy ! A I ways Gurney! I don't know what the world's condo' to with everybody runnin' around squeal- ing, 'The doctor says this,' and \rho dot -tor Gaya that!' it makes me sick! How's this country expect to get Its work done if Gurney and all the other old nanny -goats keep up this blattlit''. So he says you got 'nervous exhaustion intineed by overwork a lid e11101 L01111 I strain.' They always got to stick the we irk in if they see a chance! I reckon you did have the 'emotional strain,' anti that's all's the matter with you. You'll be over it soon's this woman's gone, and work's the very thing to make you quit frettlit' About her.\ \Idd Gurney' tell you I wait fit to work?\ \Shut tip!\ Sheridan bellowed. \I'm so Sit* 0 * that inn it's name I feel like shootin' anybody that says it to nip!\ Ile fumed and chafed. swearing hulls- ! tinetly, then came and stood before his atm. ' Look here; the you think you're tioin' the square thing by me? Do you? How much you ivortli?\ \I've got between seven and eight isalisand a year clear of my own, out - aide the salary. That much is mine whether I work or not.\ 'It is? You could 'it' pulled It out without me, I suppose you think, at your age?\ \No. lint it's mine, and it's enough.\ 'My Lord! It's about what a con- gressman gets, and you want to quit there! I suppose you think you'll get the rest when I kick the bucket, and all you have to 110 is lay back and wait! You let me tell you right here. ybu'll never see one cent of It. You go out o' business now. and what would you tknow about handlin' it five or ten or twenty years from now? Be- cause I intend to stay here a little while yet. my boy! They'd Pithier get It away from you or yotial sell for nickel and let it be split up and— . lie whirled about, mere -lied to the other end of the room, and stood silent a moment. Then he said. solemilla . : \Listen. If you g41 ottt now. you leave me in the lurch, with nothin' on God's green earth to depend on but your brother—and you know what lie is I've depetnied on you for it all since Jim died. ,Now yon've listened to that dam' doctor, and he says maybe son won't ever lie as good n 1114111 115 you were, and that certainly you won't be for a year or so—probably more. Now, that's all a lie. Men don't break down that way at your age. Look at ines' And I tell you, you ean shake tills thing off. All you need is a little get- up end a little gumption_ aim' don't go away few years and then come beet; into moviiig businesses like ours—they lose the at And if you could. I won't let you—if you lay down on me now, I won't—and that's bet -ethic if you lay down you prove you ain't the ma n I thought you were.\ Ile cleared his throat and finished quietly': \Ros- coe, will you take a montli'a vacation and come back anti go to It \No said Itoscoe, listlessly. \I'm through.\ \All right.\ said Sheridan. He picked up the evening paper from a table, went to a chair by the fire and sat down, his back to his stun. \Goodby.\ hail become hie habit. \Yes. she Is.\ Roscoe rose. his head IlallgIng, but \Edith had to leave town, sod so there was a dull relief in his eyes. Sibyl Hanks she'll have to, too!\ ! \Beat I can do,\ he muttered. Keeming \Oh I wouldn't put it that way.\ nhout to depart. yet lingering. \I fig - Roscoe proteated, drearily, tire It out a good deal like this,\ be \No I hear you wouldn't!\ There said. \I didn't know my job was any was a bitter gibe In the father's volt -e. strain, and I managed all right, but and he added: \It's a good thing site's I from what Gur—from what I hear. I goin' abroad—if she'll stay there. I Was plat up to the limit of my nerves shouldn't think any of Ila want her i from overwork, and the --the trouble here any move—you lenst of air' :it home was the extra strain that's \It's no use your talking that way, \ fixed me the way I am. I tried to said Roaeoe. \You won't do any y.:11011 \ brace, so I could stand the work and \Well. when yoti comin' back to your the trouble too, on whisky—and that office?\ Sheridan used a brisker. kind- put the finish to me! 1—I'm not till- er tone. '\I'liree weeks 'deice you Ong it as laird as I was for a while, showed up there at all. When you nod I reckon pretty soon If I can get goin' to be ready to cut out whisky to feeling a little more energy. I better and all the rest o' the foilislinefla and try to qult entirely—I don't know start in again? You ought to he Able I'm all In—and the doctor says so gesture; he could not \take time to re- member,\ he said, that lie must be careful, and he had also a curious In- dignation with hie hurt; be refused to pay it the compliment of admitting ita existence. The Saturday following Edith's de- parture Gurney came to the Sheridan building to dress the wounds and to have a talk with Sheridan which the doctor felt had become tiecessary. But lie was a little before the appointed time and wits obliged to wait a few minutes in an anteroom—there was a directors' meeting of some sort in \Good -by.\ Sheridan's office. The door was slight- ly ajar, leaking cigar smoke 411111 ora- tory, the letter all Sheridan's, and Gur- ney listened. \No sir; no. sir; no, sir!\ lie heard lite country. Well. what if It Is? There's no reason for It to be tight, and it's not goin' to keep our money tight! You're always !muffin' to the woodshed to hide your nickels in a crack bee:nice . aome fq,p1 newspaper ei:iyir the _market's a little skeery! Yon listen to every atreet-eorner croaker and then come and set here anti try to sea re Inc out of a big thing - We're in on this—understand? I tell you there never woe better times. These are good times and big hales, like legions of other parents, intensi- and I icor''t stand for any other lied ber passion and fed it hourly fuel kind o' talk. This country's on its feet b3- opposing to it fill intolerable force. as it never Was before. anti this city'a Ile swore she should cool. and thus set her on fire. on its feet and goin' to stay there!\ And Gurney heard a series of whacka Edith planned neatly. She fotialit \ 11 , 1 „ mums upon ihe desk. _ Bad hard, every other evening, with her times!'\ Sheridan vociferated, with father. and kept her bed between times ! aceompanying t liti tti 5. \Itahlat talk! to let him see what his violence had timea are giorions, I tell you! done to her. Then, when the mere We're in the promised latiti. and we're sight of her set hint to breathing, fast, I goin' to stay there! That's all, gentle- she •••• *4 pitiably that alas might bear ' men. 'Flit' 1 , in goes ,... her trouble if she went away; it Wa4 The directors came forth, flushed Impossible to be in the Salto. loWn NA - i111 and murmurous. and Gurney hastened Lanthorti and not think always of lam. In, Ilis guess was correct: Slierietatt Perhaps in New YOrk she might (iii get had been thumping the desk with his a little. She 10(1 written to a s, load right hand. The physician scolded friend, established quietly w\Li an I wearily. making good the fresh dam - aunt iti apartments—and a month or age :is best he might: and then lie said so of theaters and restaurants might what lie had to say on the sob pet of bring peace. Sheridan shouted with Roscoe and Sibyl, his opinion meet - relief; his gave her a copious ch. -ck, In g, as he expeeted, a warmly hostile and she left upon It aloud:1y morning, reception itut the result of this con - wearing violets with her mournbig. versation WIIS that by telephonic cont- end having kissed everybody goodby 1)111 lid Roscoe „ wailed lilt father. fin except Sibyl and Hibbs. Site miala liMir inter. In the library at the new have kissed Baths, but he failed to house. realize: that the (ley of her departure „ Gurney says your wife's aide to had arrived, and was surprised, on re- travesl.\ Sheridan said brusquely, au Ile turning from nim ziiie eater that eve- clime in. ning, to find her gone. \I suppose \Yes.\ Roaeoe occupied a deep chair they'll be married there.\ he said. efts - and sat In the dejected attitude which Sheridan, warming his stockinged feet at the lire, jumped up. fuming. \Either you go out o' here, or I will. Bibles!\ he snorted. \I don't want to be in the saute room with the particu- lar kind of idiot you are! Ship's through with that riffraff: all slue needed was to be kept away Dann him n few weeks, and I kept her away, and It did the toothless. For heaven's sake, go on oul o' here!\ Hibbs oneyed the gesture di' a hand still bandaged. And the black silk sling was still round Slierielan'a neck. but no word of Ourney'a and no excru- ciating twinge of pain could keep Slier- idan'a hand in the Filing. The wounds, alight enough riginnlly, had become infected the firth time he had dislodged the bandages, and healing was long to make up for a IC11 0' lost time and a ; thought I was running along floe tit delayed. Sheridan had the habit of lot o' spilt milk when that woman I to • few Months ago, but all the time colterent In her own wettings. and she the big voice rumbling. anti then, had the advantage of a mother for ' breaking into thunder, \I tell you NO! listener. She had ala0 the disadvan- Some o' you men make me sick! You'd tage of a mother for duenna. and Mrs. lose your e011fidertee. in Almighty Goil Sheridan, tinder her husliand's sharp if a doodlebug (lipped his hind leg lit tutelage, proved an effective one. you! You any \'honey's tight all over Edith was reduced to telephoning Lamborn from shops whenever she could juggle her mother into .a momen- tary distraction over a counter. Edith was incomparably more In love than before Lamliorn's expulsion. Her whole being was nothing but the determination to hurdle everything that separated her from him. Slue was in a state that could be altered by only the it and most delicate di- plomacy of suggestion. but Sheridan. I was ready to bust, and didn't know It. Now, then. I don't want you to blame Sibyl, and if I were you I wouldn't speak of her as 'that wom- an,' because Ole's yotir daughter -in. law and going to stay that way. She didn't do anything wicked. It was a shock to me, anti I don't deny it, to find what she had done—encouraging that fellow to hang around her after Ile began trying to flirt with her, and lotting her head over him the way she did. I don't deny it was a shock and that it'll always be a hurt inelde of me I'll never get over. But it was my fault; I didn't understand a woman's nature.\ Poor Roscoe spoke in the most profound and desolate earnest. \A woman craves society, and gayety, and meeting attractive people, and traveling. Well, I can't gtve her the other things, but I can give her the traveling—real traveling, not just go- ing to Atlantic City or New Orleans. the way she has. two, three tittles. A woman hum to have something In her life besides a business man. And that's all I was. I never understood till I heard her talking when she Was 80 sick, end I believe if you'd heard her then you wouldn't sPeak so hard- heartedly about her; I believe you might have forgiven her like I have. That's all. I never eared anything for any girl but her In my life. but I was so busy with business I put It nhead of her. I never thought about her. I was an bulgy thinking business. Well. this Is where it's brought us to—and now when you talk about loishiesoe to me 1 feel the way you du) when any• body to tics about Giirney to you. 'flue word 'business' inakee me dizzy—It makes hoe honestly sick at the atomach I believe if I had to go downtown find step hiside that office door I'd fall down on the floor. deathly sick. You talk about /1 '111011th'S VIlelli1011*-11 nil I get just us sick. l'in rattled—I can't explain—I haven't got any plans—can't make any, except to take my girl and get just an far away from that office ns I ran—and stay. We're going to Japan Iliad, and if we--\ Ills father rustled the paper. \I said goodliy. Roaeoe.\ \Goodloy.\ said Roscoe. listlessly. CHAPTER XXIV. Sheridan walled until he heard the sound of the outer door (losing: then he rose and pushes] II II nut' disk set ID the wall. Jackson eppeared. \Huts Bilitia got home from work r - Mist' Baths? No, suh.\ — Fell him I want to see 111M, soon as he eonies.\ \Yessuh.\ Sheridan returned to his ettalr and fixed HS at tel1t11111 tiereery upon the newspaper. lie found it Iiiineffit to piirsiie the ilellIS IleyOnd their explana- tory rubrics—there was nothing un- usinti or startling to concentrate lila attention. \Motorman Puts Blame on Brakes, Three Kilied aVlien Car Slitlea.\ \Bur- glars Make Ilig Rauh.\ \Board Works Approve Big Carbine Extension.\ \I I old -up alen Injure Two. Man Fouptl III Alley, Skull Fractured.\ ''Sick etu I hg Story Told ill Divorce Court.\ \Plan New Eighteen -story Structure.\ \Sehoolgirl Meets Death tattler Antoniobile.\ \Negro Cuts 'fliree. One 11ead.\ \Life Crushed Out. Third Elevator Accident In Same Building Causes! Action by Coroner.\ \Deciare Militia WIII be rtioinace. Societies Protest to Goternor in Church Rioting Case.\ \Short $3.500 lul Aceounts, Trusted Man Kills Self With Drug.\ \Found Frozen. Family Without Food or Fuel. Baby Dead When Parents Return Home From Seeking Work.\ \Minister Returned From Trip Abroad Lectures on Big Future of Our City, Sees Big lin \You're My Last Chance.\ provernent During Short Absence. Says No European City Holds Candle.\ (Sheridan nodded approvingly here.) Hibbs came through the hall 5%' this Ring. and entered the room briskly \Well. tallier, (1 1(1 you want me?\ \Yes. Sit down.\ Sheridan got up, and Itilibue took n seat by the tire, hold- ing oat las hands to the crockling blaa.e, for it was cold outdoors. \I came within seven of the shop record today.\ lie said. \I (intoned more strips that tiny other workman has any day tido niontli The nearest In Me Is sixteen behind.\ \There!\ exclaimed ills father, great ly pleased. \What'd I tell you' Ilke to hear Gurney hint again that wasn't right in sending yuui thee... -1 would just like to hear html And yen1= 4 : ain't you embattled of makin' such it• fuss about It? Ain't your \I didn't go at it In the right soloillit the other time,\ Hibbs said, smiling\ brightly, his fare ruddy in the cheretill firelight. \I didn't know the difference it meant to like a thing.\ \Well I guess I've pretty thoroughly vindicated my judgment. I guess I have! I said the shop'd be good for you, and it Was. I said It wouldn't hurt you, and It hasn't. It's been Just exactly what I said it would be. Ain't that so?\ \Looks like it!\ Bibbs agreed, gayly. \Well I'd like to know any place I been wrong, first and last! Instead o l ' hurtin . you. It's been (be makIn' of you—physically. It's started you out to be the huskiest one o' the whole family. Now, then, mentally—that's . different. I don't say it unkindly, Itibba, but you got to do something for yourself mentally, just like what's been done physically. And I'm goln' to help you.\ Sheridan decided to sit down again. Ile brought his chair close to his son's, and, leaning over, tapped Hibbs' knee confidentially. \I got plans for you. Itibbs.\ he said. Hibbs instantly looked thoroughly alarmed. Ile drew back. \1—I'm all right now. father.\ \Listen.\ Sheridan settled himself In his chair, and spoke in the tone of it reasonable man reasoning. \Listen here. Hibbs. I had another blow to- day. and it Was a hard one and right in the face, though I have been ex - pectin' it some little time hack. Well, It's got to be met. Now I'll be frank with you. As I said a minute ago. mentally I couldn't ever called you exaetly strong. You got will power, I'll say that for you. I never knew boy or man that could be atubborner— never 011e ill my life! Now, then. you've showed you could learn to run dna machine best of 'any Mall In the shop, in no time at all. That looks to me like you could learn to do other things. I don't deny but what It's an encouraglie sign. I don't deny that. at all. Now. then, I'm goin' to give you it raise. I wanted to Fiend you straight Oil up through the shops—a year or two, maybe—but I can't do it. I loot Jim, anti now I've lost Roseoe. He's quit. lie's laid down on me. If he ever COMPS back at all. he'll be a long time pickin' tip the strings, oind, any- way, he ain't the man I thought he was. I can't count on him. I got to have aoniebody I know I can count on. And I'm down to this: yoti're my last chance. Hibbs, I got to learn you to use what brains you got and see If we ean't develop 'ern a little. Who knows? And Pna goin' to put my time In on it. I'm goin' to take you right downtown with me. and I won't be hard on you If you're a little slow at first. And I'm gain' to do the big thing for you. I'm goin . to make you feel you got to do the blg thing for me, In return. I'm goin' to make an appeal to your ambition that'll make you dizzy!\ Ile tapped his son on the knee again. \Ilibbs. I'm guilt' to start you off this way: I'm goin' to make you a director in the Pump Works company; I'm goin' to make you vice president of the Realty company and a vice-president of the Trust com- pany!\ Bibbs Jumped to his feet. blanched. \Oh no!\ he cried. Sheridan took his dismay to be the excitement of sudden joy. \Yes. sin And there's some pretty fat little aal- Aries goes with those vice-presidencles, and a pinch o . stock in the Pump com- pany with the directorship. You thought I was pretty mean about the shop—oh, I know you tild!—but you see the old man can play both ways. And so right now, the minute you've begun to make good the way I wanted you to, I deal front the new clerk. And I'll keep on liandin' it out bigger and bigger every time you show me you're big enough to play the hand I it you. I'm Martin' you with a pretty big one, my boy!\ \But I don't—I don't—I don't want It!\ Milts stammered. Sheridan looked perplexed. \What's the matter with you? Didn't you un- derstand what I was tellin' you?\ \I know, I know! But I can't take it.\ \What's the matter with you?\ Sher- idan was half aidazed, half suspicious, \Your head feel funny?\ \I've never been quite so sane In my life,\ sold Ifibbs, - as I have lately. Anil I've got Just what I want. I'm living exactly floe right ilfe. I'm earn- ing my daily bread, and Ian happy in doing It. My wages are enotigia I don't want any more money. and I don't thiserre any—\ \Damnation!\ Sheridan sprang up. \You've turned Socialist! You been listening to those fellows down there, and you—\ \No sir. I think there's a great deal In what they say. but that boil it.\ Sheridan tried to restrain his grow- ing fury. and succeeded partially. \Then what is it? What's the mat- ter?\ \Nothing.\ his son returned. nerv- ously. \Nothing—exeept that I'm n eon - tent. I don't want to change any- thing.\ \Why not?\ 'Mobs load the incredible folly to try to explain. \I'll tell you. father. If I can. I know It may be hard to under- stand—\ \Yes I think it may tie.\ mold Sheri- dan, grimly. \What you say usually is a little that way. Go on!\ Do yati think the old man 4 will heed G , tbs. or will he put ; 4 the y011/Ig 11'; out of his ;ire • and a:A him off'? (TO GE Pub 1911 gnIi Sok %Vat C vaBhee Ame o .mrsrt ff .j east On I Yell for to fotin Ti nuiss I'' h t l i et lug ti S , SP ill \t Ni NI :1 1`1 1 11:1 %\‘'' I I% II lid pItt Ii i- uitl ill lii ml it% 111 M( ••••
