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And its he !swore he pommeled the table with his Woliiidt,1 hand. and when the iliictor, after storming at hint ineffeetively, sprani.r to catch and protect that hand. St k etida ti wrenched it away. tearing' II oe loanolage. Ile hammered the tithie till It :eapial. \Fool!\ he panted. choking. \If lie's liovii gumption enough to guess right the lirst dine in his life. Its enough for Me to begin learnite Mtn oil! - strug::: , ,m with the dewtor, he leaned toward !Mobs, thrusting forward his convulsed face, which Was deathly pale. \My Immo. ain't Tracy. I tell you!\ le. screamed. hoarsely. ''You give in. you Mulotoorn fool! I've had my way with you before. and I'll have my way w int you now!\ Ilitolos' Noe was ilti white as his fa- ther's. \Nip. Yon cati't have your way.\ he solid Anil :hen. obeying a sigii.r.-a tit motion of t;ttritey's loom'. he vent out .ittickly, leaving them strug- Ong. CHAPTER XXVII. Mrs. Sheridan. in a wrapper, noise- lessly °tossed tile door of her husloanda room at day.Nreak the next inurning, Situ peered within the darkened cham- ber. At the \old\ house they had 1111:ireil a rooln, lout the architect had rhos , to to separate them at the new, and they had nod known how to formu- 111;e :iii althollgil to both of them VaglielY relife - belisib•e lit die new arrangeinent. Siteridiiii did not stir, and she was withdrawing her head front the aper- ture vo tom he spookoo. •Ilibbs be it bigger !moonless man than what Jim and Roscoe was put together -if he ever wakes up,' he says_ Wasn't that exactly what lie says?” \I suppose so.\ said Sheridan, with- out exhiloiting any interest. \Gurney's crazier at 'Milos, but if he wasn't -if what he says was trUe — what of it r' \Listen. papa. Just suppoie Hibbs took it into his mind to get married. You know where lie goes all the time-\ :ads Lord, s•tos!\ Sheridan turned over in the bed, his face to the wall, leaving visible of himself only die thick grizzle of his hair. \You better go hark to sleep. Ile runs over there -every minute she'll let him, I sup- pose. Go back to bed. There's nothite in it.\ \Why ain't there?\ she urged. \I know be is, tool You vvait the housework a good while. and now a \ akr1 Cull \' in ' if 5011 they're doin• the cookin'. too. 'Course soot to, and shut the door.\ Hibbs vvouldn't know that unless she's She cattle aiul sat iv the bed. - I told him. and I reckon she wouhbet: 'vol... tip thltikin' about it, - she ex- pial, „ _ And - 11 „, n „, ru o I thought slonit it the surer I got I must be \No. You Can't Have Your Way.\ right. and I knew you'd he tormentln' rourseir If yew was awake, so -well, you got plenty other troubles. but Ent just sure you ain't goitt' to have the worry with Hibbs it looks like.\ \You bet I ain't!\ he grunted. \1.00k how biddable he was about goin' back to the works,\ she con- tinued. \lie's a right good-hearted boy, really, and sometimes I honestly have to say he seems right smart. too. Now and then he'll say something sounda right bright. 'Course, most always It doesn't, anol a good deal of the time, when be says things, why. I Imre to Seel glad we baren't got company, be- NIUSe they'd think he didn't have any gumption at all. Yet, look at the way be did when Jim -when Jim got hurt. He took right hold o' things. And Doc- tor Gurney says lie's got brains, and you can't deny but what the doctor's eight vonsiderable of a man. Ile acts eleenY. but that's only because he's got WWII A large practice -he's a pretty wide-awake kind of a man sane ways. Well, what he says last night about .W1blon-that'a what I got to thinkin' ighset. Too beard Wm, papa; Ito asps. she's kind o' and MIMS Is too Up in the clouds to notice any - think like that for himself. They've never asked hint to a meal In the house, but he wouldn't notice that. either -he's kinol of Innocent. Now I urns thinkin' Th viou know, I lon't sup- pose we've hardly mentioned the girl's name at taiole since Jim went, but it seems to 1110 maybe if-\ Sheridan tiottog- - but his arma.'idtering it sound half groan, hog vii wn. \You're hark in' up the Wrong tree! Go on tootek to bed, mamma:\ \Why am I?\ she demanded. crossly. 'Why am 1 liar - kin tip the wrong tree?\ \Because you are. There's nothin' in R.\ \I'll bet you.\ she said, rising -\I'll bet you lie goes to eloorelo with her this morning. NVIiiit pot want to bet?\ \Go back to bed\ he commanded. ''I know what Fin talkin' about; there's nonlife In it, I tell you.\ She shook her head perplexedly. \Then -do you know something about It that you ain't told me?\ \Yes I do.\ he grunted. \Now go rion. Maybe I can get a little sleep, i ain't had any yet!\ \Well-\ She went to the door, her expression downeast. \I thought may- be -but-\ She coughed prefatorily. \Oh papa, something else I wanted to tell yort. I was talkin' to Itoscoe over the phone last night when the tele- gram came. so I forgot to tell you, but -well, Sibyl wants to come over this afternoon. They expect to get off by the end o' the week. anti I reckon she watita to feel she's done what she could to kind o' make up. Anyway. that's what he said. But what I thought was, no use bein' rough with her, pallet -I expert she's suffered a good deal -- and I don't think we'd ought to be. on Roscoe's aceount. You'll -you'll be kind o' polite to her, won't you, papa?\ lie mumbled something which was smothered under the coverlet be had pulled over his head. \What?\ she said, timidly. \I was Just Foyle' I hoped you'd treat Sibyl all right when she comes, this after- noon. You will, won't you. papa?\ Ile threw the coverlet off furioualy. \I presume so!\ he roared. She departed guiltily. But if he had accepted her proffered wager that !Mobs would go to church with Mary Vertrees that morning. Mrs. Sheridan would have lost. They meant to go to church. But It happened that they were attentively preoccupied In a conversation RR they came to the church; and they had gone an incredi- ble number of blocks beyond it before they discovered their error. However, feeling that they might be embarrass - !ugly late If they returned, they de - \N1 :try,\ said Hibbs. after a time. \am 1 a sleep -walker?\ She laughed a little, then looked grave. \Does your father say you are?\ \Yes -when he's in a mood to flatter nip. Other times, other names. Ile pas quite a list.\ \You mustn't mind.\ she said, gently \Elea; been getting some pretty severe shocks, iViiat you•ve odd me makes me pretty sorry for him, Bildis. always beell sure he's very big.\ \Yes. Big and -blind. Ile's like a Hercules without eyes and without any and see. There's just one thing in the consciousitt , ss eS..ept that of his world that'll wake the sleepiest young strength and of his purpose to grow man alive up-yes, and make him strottger. Stronger for what? rot jump up -and I don't care who he is or nothing.\ how sound asleep it looks like he is. \Are yon sore, Itilolos'? It can't be That's when he takes it Into his head for nothing: it must be stronger for to_ pick out some girl and settle down something, even though he doesn't and have a home and children of his know what it is. Perhaps what he own. Then. I guess, hell go out after and his kind are struggling for is some - the money! You•it see. Now. I don't thing so great they couldn't see it - say that !Mobs has got the idea ill his so great Ill inc of us could see it.\ ho.ad yel-'er else he wouldn't be \No he's just like some blind un- talkin' that fool -talk about nine dol conseious thing hea ving u oder - lars a week twin' good enough for him ground to live on. But it's (smith% papa,nail 'Till he breaks through and leans he'll jump for whatever yon want too out . I t lie ilaa light,„ • she innshed for hand him out. Ile will! And I can him, cheerily. tell you this mewls too: he'll want all , \Into tloe smolte.\ said Itilobs. \Look the salary and stoek be can get hold at the powder of v000l-olust already ellr- of. anti he'll hustle to keep geoltin' tng the decen t stotw, even though more. That girl's the kind yi that a t . Q That's from the 'little young husband just goes crazy tO give • ` 's things to She's pretty and tine-lookIn', pigs: the big ones aren't so had on Sunday! There s a fleck of soot on and things look nice on her. and I ' sh.. . 4 have . em about as your cheek. Some pig meld it out into slit' t air; he nutght as well have thrown I as Ole Anil I guess site it 011 yott. It would have been braver. isn't get till' many these days, either. , 1 „.. 11 ty ready for the for then he'ol have taken his ehatice change. I saw her with her sleeves or whi Pi li \ 14 \\11 f°1- it could*\ mo lt e d up at th e sit e h,. /1 w i n d ow the \Is there soot on toy cheek, !ti hilts? other day. anil .1:ii•ksoli tOli I ille yester- Is then'?\ day their conk left two weeks ago, and \Is there? There are toott on your they haven't tried to hire another moo. cheeks. NlarY - a no each. Om' Ile says her and her mother heen oloin' landed sinee I mentioned the first.\ She halted Immediately. giving Mtn her handkerehief, and he suceeedell transferring most of the Mark from her elec. to the cambric. They were entirely matter-of-eourse about it. An elderly comae. It eliatweol. hail been walking behind Itilolos and NI:ory for the last lolowk or so, and passed ahead during thoo removal of tlo• soot. -nu ere!\ said Ilse elderly wift.. 'You're. alo•ays wrong when you begin guesa- bog about strangers. Those two young people aren't tionev\totioners at till -- tloey've loom married for years.,...A blind man coit',1 see that.\ \I wish I knew iv ho threw that soot on you,\ said Millis. looking up at the neighboring chimneys,. as they went on. '\Fliey rorrest children for throw- ing snowballs :tt the street cars. bitt-\ \lint they - don't arrest street ears for slinking all the pi -tilt -es in the houses crooked every time they go by. Nor for the uproar they make. 1 Wonder what's the cost ill nerves for the Boise of the city emit year. Yes, we pay the price for living in :1 'growing town,' whether we have money to pay or none.\ \Who is it gets the pay?\ said Bilobs. \Not I!\ she lanahed. \Nobody gets it. 'fliere Isn't any pay; therio•s only 111011ey. And only some of the men down town get touch of that. That's what toy father wants me to get.\ \Yes.\ she said smi:ing to him. nod nodding. .\And you don't want it, and you don't need it.\ \But sou ilon't think I'm A Sleep- walker, Mary?\ He bad told her of his father's new plans for him, ttoongh he had not descrilwil the vigor and lok - turesquetopsa of their $etting forth. \You think Ent right?\ \A tl000lisanol times!\ she cried. \There aren't so Many happy people in this world, I think -and you say you've found what makes you happy. If it's a dream -keep It!\ \The thought of going down there- into the money sioultie-1 hate it as I never hated the shop!\ he said \I hale it! And the city itself, the city thin the money :Mottle has look at it! And the dirt and Ote ugli- ness and the rush and the noise aren't the worst of It; it's what the dirt and ugliness and rush and noise Mean - that's the worst! The outward things are insufferable, but they're only the expression of a spirit -a Mind embryo of a spirit, not yet a p e nt -oh. joist greed! And this 'go ahead' nonsense! Oughtn't it all to be a fionnoadtip? shouldn't want to get ahead if I could -I'd want to help the other fellow to keep up with me.\ full Of all kinds o happy life: ehii- his wife cants in, and he exhaled a dren, and lovers alking, and ladies soleruitity. His deference to the Sab. leaning from win WA all -down great bath was manifest, as alwaya, in the lengths of atreet leading to the city leugth of his coat and the closeness of Walls; and there the gates are wide his Saturday -night shave; and his ex - Open, letting in o space of green field pression, to match this religious pomp, and cornfield itt arvest: And all round Wan more than Sabbatical, but the his head a grea rain of awirling nu- most dismaying of his demonstrations Nunn leaves t owing from l it little was his keeping his hand in his sling. walled graveyafrd.\ Sibyl advanced to the middle of the \And If I painted.\ Ribba returned, room mod halted there, not looking at \I'd paint a lady walking in the street hhmu, but down at her muff, In which, It of a great city, full of all kinds of up- eMild be seen, her hands were nervona- loarious and futile life --children being ly moving. Itosome went to a chair In taught only how to !mike money, and another part of the room. There was lovers hurrying to get rietter, and ladies it deadly silence. who'd given up trying to wash their But Sibyl found a shaky voice. after windows clean, and tlie gates of the , ant interval of gaining, thoitzla she was l eafy wide open. hotting in slums anti unable to lift her eyes, and the dam - slaughter houses find freight yarois. tiling lids contitituod to veil them. She and all r011nil this lady's head a great spoke hurriedly. like an ungifted chil rain of swirling So , it Ile Paused. r.a.oting something committed to 'tient %- • adding. thoughtfully: \.tnol yet I lo.. oory, tout her shwerity was moue the [hove glad that soot got lot your less evident for that, chled nun a walk would make (he'll cheek. It was just as if I were your \Father Sheridan. you and mother as good. It was a whollt.ss W nter brother -the way yon gaVe Me your Sheridan have always been so knot to morning, with an inch of crisp snow handkerchief lo nth it off for you. me. anti I would Int to to have you think over the ground. So they walked, atiol !still, Edith never-\ • I ilon't appreciate it, from the way I for the most part they were silent, hut „ Didn't she?\ said Nlary, as be acted. Eve come to tell you I am Ott theoir way hotu ue. after they bad paused again. sorry for the way I did that night, and ii nit back at noon, they began to be An4 . I - talkative again. \ He erotten ted h im- to say I know 110 We ll a s an ybody lite self with shaking his head ilostead of way I alb! it will never hall\ pen again, because !wen a moody offering more tionnite information. •flien he realized that they were pass- ha rd lesson: 11 nil when we come bark. jug the new leotise. alit! lie sighed pro- some day. I hope you'll owe that you've liii unity. 'Mitry. Olir Walk's tillnost got a daughter-in-law you lieli.r nets! to be ashamed of again. I Want to musk poi exeuse me for the way I did. 101 blank. \SO it is. lhlhibs '' and I earl Say I harell't ally feelings toward Edith now. t o out nly wish her They sold no more untfl they Paine happioess and good in her new life. I t 0 big' gate. As they drifted slowly to thank you for all yiour kitoolitess to me. it stop, the door of ItooS4.111.'s 1114.11 , e• •, 181 11 I 101111W I :i poor return for opened, and Roscoe came ra• it, lout if Vu iii can overloiik the way I behaved I know I would feel a good dell I happier -and I kniiw Roscoe would, too. I wish to promise not to be as foolish In the future, and the sa me error never ovelir again to Make us ail soo unhappy. if yom ean lii charitable enomgh to excuse it this , time.\ He looked steadily at her without replying, and she stood before him. 'lever lifting her eyes: motionless, save where the moving fur proved the agitation of her hands WilliOn the muff. \.all right,\ lie said. at last She looked up then with vast relief. though there vi as a revelation of beary moors when the eyelids lifted. - Thank you,' she said. - Hurry's somethiug else--abotit something dif- ferent- I want to say to you, but I want mother Sheridan to hear it, too.'' \Shes upstairs in her room,\ said Sheridan. \Itoseoe--\ Sibyl interrupted. She hail just seen !Molts pass through the hall mid Iseght to ascend the stairs: and in a flash she instinctively pereeived the chance for precisely the effect she wanted. ''Ni,. let me go,\ she said. \I want to speak to her a minute first, ally Way-\ And she went AWay optickly, gain:lig the top of tlw stairs in time to see Itibbs iii ter ilia nano and close the door. Sibyl knew that Hibbs. in his noon, had overheard her qUarrel With Edith in the hall outside; foot . bitter Eolith, thinking the more to shame her_ had subsequently informed her of the ciremustoince. sibyl had just remem- bered this. aliil With the recollection there\ hail flashed the thought-out of her own experience -that people are often notclm. more deeply impressed by words tIwy overhear than by worois directly addressed to them. Sibyl in- tended to make it impossible for Bible; not to overhear. She did not lie• tate - her heart was not with the old ore. and she -believed wholly to the tostlrai of ter cause Anil itt the truth of what she was eioing to say. Fate was rir thous at times; it had delivered intoo her 'Janda the girl who bad affronted her. Mrs. Sheridan was In her own room 'file approach of Sibyl and Itoseoe had driven. her from the litorary. for she had miscaleulatiod her itusbattel's mood. and she felt that if he liSed ItIs Injured hand as a mark of empimsla again, lii her preselice. she (as she thought of It \have a fit right there,\ She heard Sibyl's step. anol pretendroll to be putting a touch to her hair h' tune a mirror. \I Was just coming 104411,\ She Said. as the door opened. \Yes. lie Wallis y011 to.\ Said Sibyl. \It's all right, mother Sheridan. Ile's forgiven me.\ airs. Sheridan sniffed instantly: tears appeared. She kissed her dough- eheek; then, in siience, re- garded the mirror afresh. wiped her eyes. and applied powder. \And I hope Eolith will lie happy.\ Sibyl added. inciting more applications of Mrs. Sh ml'seriela handkerchief and porri f ie \Yes yes.\ murmured the good wotn- an. \We mustn't ;rnake the worst of things.\ \Well. there was something else I had to say, and he wand; you to hear It, too,\ said Sibyl. \We better go doss - n, mother Sheridan.\ She led the way, Mrs. Sheridan fol- lowing obediently. but, when they came to a spot 00RP to Inblos' door, Sibyl stopped. \I want to tell you about it first,\ she Raid, abruptly. \It Isn't a secret, of course, in any way: It's something the whole family - has to know, and the sooner the Whole family knows it the better. It's something it wouldn't he right for AS all not to un- warmth will so often [mike eVr'll denetand, and of course father Sherd- rearlyiriade library the actual \livings' dan most of all. lint I want to just room\ of a family to whom the shelved volumes are Indeed sealed. Thug It was with Sheridan. who read nothing except newspapers. bustnefoo letters and figures: who lookNI upon books as he looked upon brie -a -brae or crochet. Ins -when be was at hoine, R110 net abed or eating, he was in the ittorary. Ho stood in the many -colored light of the staineel-glaaa window at the (Sr might to. because end of the long room, when Roscoe and felt the right wal, \I read something the other day and remerhbered It for you,\ said Mary. \It was something flume -Jones said of n picture he was going io pe;nt; the first pleture I shall / Make a man walking In the 'great` of a great dtr. They Were Entirely Matter -of -Course About It. Sibyl, who was startlingly pale. She Nee/lied little enfeebled by her illness. 'however. walking rather quickly at her husband's side and not taking fits arm. The IWO erOSSed the street without ap- 'tearing to see Mary and her compan- ion, and. entering the new house, were lost to sight. Mary gazed after them gravely, but Hibbs, looking at Mary. did not see them. . \Lary he said. \you seem very serious. Is anything bothering your ''No, Hibbs,\ And she gave him a bright, quiet; took that 'mole him in- stantly unreasonably happy. - I know you wanton.) go in-\ he be- gan. \No. I don't want to.\ \I mustn't keep you standing here. 110(1 I Al 11 , 4 li't go In with you -hut -I Just wanted to sity--I've seemed very stupid to myself Mk MOrnhig, grum- bling about soot and till that -while all the tittle 1- Niary, I think it's lwen the very happiest of mill the hours you've given Hie. I flo, .t114 I -I don't know just why -hut it seemed to me that it wous one Ed a IWays remember_ And you.\ be added. faiteringly, \you look so-so beautiful today:\ It must have been the 8 ,,ot on my cheek. Iliblos.\ \Mary will you tell me something?\ lie asked. \I think I will.\' \It's something I've had a lot of theories about, but none of then) ever JUSt fits. Yon 11Sell to %Year furs in the fall, but now it's so much colder. you don't -you never wear them at all any more. Why doll! you?\ , Her eyes fell for It moment. and she grew red. Then she looked op gayly. \Biblos if I tell you the :answer will you promise not to ask any more ques- tions?\ \Yes. them?\ \Because I found he warmer Without them!\ She caught his hand quickly in her own for an instant. laughed into.lois eyes, and ran into the house. Why did you slop wearing CHAPTER XXVIII. It is the consoling attribute of un- used hooks that their decorative kind of go over it t with you; it 'II kind of help me t see I got it nit straight. I haven't at any reason (or saying It except the ood of the family. and it's nothing to Sc, One way or the other, of course, cept for that. mightn't to 'VP belt ved the way I did that night, and it s MR to me if there's HIVthIng I eon do help the family, I would help show 1 Well. what I want to do Is to tell this se's to keep tio• family from being made a .fool of. I don't want to see the fatally jhat mad. use of. and twisted aroand her Unger by somebody that's got no more heart than so much ice, and just as sure to bring troubles In the long ruu as -as Edith's mistake is. Vi'all, then, this IS the way It ls. I'll just tell you how it looks to me and see it it don't strike you the same way.\ Within the room, Biloba. much an- noyed, tapped his ear with his pencil. lie WiSlied they wouldn't stand talkies, near his door when he was trying to write. Ile had just taken from his trunk the manuscript of a poem be- gun the precediog Stinting afternoon, and be had some ideas he wanted to fix moon paper before they maliciously seized the ti rat opportunity to vontsh, for they were lout gossamer. Hibbs Sync 1.11•AM`li vi.'11 bl.gi lint!' ;ZS Or hIR poem and if he e011111 1411 rry It through hoo meant too dare grestly with it -he woold venture it upon an editor. For he hail his plan of life, now; his day would be of manual 1blior ing-he could think of his friend and he ronolorthink in cadences for poems, to the crashing of the strong machines -and if his father turned him out of home and mit of the works, be would work elsewhere and live elsewhere. Lila father hail the right, and it mattered very little to Hibbs- he faced the pros- pect of a working man's lodging house without trepidation. Ile could tInd a washstand to write mum. he thought; and every etlelling When he left Mary lie write a little; nod he would write on holidays aliil Oil SuiiiiIu s --On Sundays In the afternoon. In a lodging house. at least. he wouldn't be inter- rupteol by his sister in taw's ehoosing the immediate vicinity of his oloor for eotiversations evidently important to it but merely disturbing to Mtn. Ile frowned plaintively. is. he v011.41 think of tone polite way of looking her to go away. But. as slop went on, tie started violently dropping manu- script antl penell upon the floor. \I don't know whether you heard It. mother Sheridan.\ sloe said, \hut this old VertreeS nelit door, has been soold fooreflosure, allot all they got out of it wool an agreement that lets 'moo live there a lath. longer. Ros- coe told me, and he says he heard tin Vertrees has been up and down the streoots more al two y l'S. tryln' to get a job he could call a 'position snub couldn't land it. You heard anything aboot it, mother Sheridan?\ \Wed. I did holow they lwen sloth' their own housework a good while back.\ • sald Nil's. Sheridan. \Anil noW they're dont' the cookito'. too.\ Sibyl sent forth a little titter with a sharp edge. \I lonie they Mill some- thing to cook! She sold her piano mighty giliek after Jim oiled!\ Midis Mowed up. Ile was trembling from head to foot and he was dizzy - (1 all the real th.rigs he could uever have dreamiest in hos dream the Mat woouloi have beim what he heard now. Ile felt that s.onietlitiog ineroolible was hooppening, and that be was powerless to stop it. It seemed to !lint that heavy I olows Isere fa:tiii:z upon his head anti upon Mary's; it seeilled to itim that h6 and Mary were being stritek and heat- physica I -- tttui I hat su,tit.'tlilii Ii ideous i tit pelt' led. Ile Wallted shout to Sibyl to be sileott, hut tie (-mild{ not: lie (-mild only stain!. swallowing a tint- trembling. 'What I think the whole family ought to understand is just this. - SOH Sibyl. sharply. - Those people were so hard ml; o that this aliss Vertrees start- ed- after- -titbits before-- they knew He Felt That Somethreg Inevit.tble Was Harmer - ono. whether lie Was insane or 1101'. They'd got a notiokitio r m ight lie, from hip be- ing In a Fa I) turn, and Mrs. Vertrees asked me If he WilS Insane, the very first day Bilobs look the daughter out auto rillitog!\ She panaed a moment. looking at Mrs. Sheridan, but listeoing intently. There Was no sound (row within the root». \No!\ eNelailned Mrs. Sheridan. \It's the truth.\ Sibyl declared. loud- ly. \Oh of course we were all crazy about that girl at first. We Were peony green when We moved up bel l e. and we thought shell get us in -hut It didn't take me long tit read her! Her flintily were down and out when It CAMP to money -and they had to go anal it. one way or another. somehow! (TO BA COS11.12tUgLk3
