Show the turmoil U A M 0 dy BOOTH i UIS isola ly by A Drut bers Sheri dans attempt to make a business man of lila his pon oon a by br starting him in th the a much machine ine short chop ends in n go kolne ing to a a nervous wreck on ills his re ra turn is la met anet ait il the tha station by his neater adith ile iio indal himself an all incon alder ablo anil ani unconsidered ligaro in the tie now new of tho the sh ear adani I 1 la beta Is mary vertrees Verl reea looking nl at him front from a summer house next door tile tho ases old town family and impoverished call on tile Sherl dans newly rich and dil icuss them thein mary puts into inlo words worda her parents unspoken wish that eliat she marry ono one of the sheridan boys at tho the inter ln lan dan housewarming lne banquet Hil erlda spreads himself milry mary frankly encourages jim Sheri dans attentions lonii und land dibbs hears lie he Is to be sent bent back to ilia machino machine shop mary idary tells bior ter mother about the blin fluet andl and shocks tier her mother by talking of 0 jim as AB a matrimonial possibility jim tells A ila mary lubbs la Is not a lunatic just queer he 11 proposes pro posea to mary alary who aalf accepts hie him W will 11 I 1 0 old id man sheridan be ab able 1 t to inspire bibbs with his own belief in bigness griess and win tile the young man to the business a standard un da adl or will bibbs prove t to hla p practical father that there la Is a place in the world for poetry and music and persuade the elder to lot let him devote his ufa life to poe poetry and writing CHAPTER vill VIII continued lie ile seated himself lc in a chair tit nt hla his sons side aide and leati liag over topped tapped lf confidentially on oil the knee this cites pot got the greatest future in III Aroc Arri ilca cilea and it if my lily song behave right illy hy me ino arid by themselves gain to have a mighty fair share ot of it a mighty fair share I 1 lovo tilts this town I 1 love it like I 1 do my own business and id tight light for it na as quick as id light for my own family its a beautiful town took look nt at our wholesale district look nt at tiny lany district you want to look tit at the park system were through and tile tho boulevards and the public statuary arid and she bhe grows coill how bow sho she grossl ile iio hail had become intensely grove grave lip its broo with solemnity now I 1 cant any of it nor any buti or sliver silver nor buildings nor bonds away with nio me in my shroud when wheat I 1 have to go nut but I 1 want to leave my abare lit in al it to my boys boym ive worked for it ive been it 11 builder arid and A maker and two blades of grass have grown where one grew brew before whenever I 1 laid my hand bond on the ground arid and willed em to grow ive built big and I 1 want the to go on and when my lost last hour comes 60 anes I 1 want to know that my boys are arc ready to take charge bibbs when im up tip above I 1 want to know that hat the big sharo share ive mado made mine hero here below la Is browin bigger arid and bigger in the charge of my boys ile iio leaned backo back deeply moved therel lie ho sold ivo ive never spoken moro more what was in my heart in fix my life I 1 do it because I 1 want you to understand and not think tile me a mican father I 1 never bad to talk that vay to jim anti and Ilos coo they understood without any talk bibbs 11 1 I see said babbs at least I 1 think I 1 do but P walt a sheridan railed life hla hand bond if you see ilia least bit in ithe world then you understand what jt it meant to start one ol 01 0 my boys and deavo him come back on mo me the way you ila did and have to bo be sent to a datil itar tachim luin because lie ho stand work now no lets got get right down to lt it ive had a whole lot a 0 talk with ole doe doc gurney about you one time antl and another and I 1 reckon I 1 understand your sour ease cuso jiust ast about us as well as lie ho does docs ann an way now why did work make you alck aeck instead of brace you up und land make a inan of you the way it ought of done I 1 pinned olo duruo garuey y down to it I 1 says look here aint it i really cully because lie be just plain lusted bated it yes lie ho kays it it hed enjoyed it it t a hurt him arid and bout about a tile hie awny it la Is yes sald said lats il about the way it Is well then I 1 reckon its ita up to me riot not only to make you iou do it but to janke you like fit shivered arid and lie turned upon ills ilia father a look that was almost ghostly It 1 I cant ho be salt in a low voice 1 I cant caal cant go bark baik to tho the shop no cant like it I 1 cant Sherl dan jumped up his big patience gone to hla his own view he had reasoned exhaustively had explained fully and land had pleaded cuore thans it faither should only to be met lit in the end with the unreasoning and mysterious stubbornness which had been bibbs iba illing characteristic from childhood lly illy george you willi ho he cried go buck back there and like it gurney saya it wont hurt you ou if you ake it anti and lie he says it if 11 kill you it yon yell igo go baeff bark and luto hate it so BO it looks as if it was aa A a about up to you not to hate it yell gurness gurneys Cu Gur a tool fool work kill rany anybody body and this coln to kill you you liate it or not ive never made a u mistake lu in a serious matter lit in my life and it a mistake my send perdin lii you there lit in tile the first drat place and im coln to prove it eflin t vir gain to solid bond you back there and my iny judgment gurney says its all mental attitude well youre coln to learn the right onel ile iio says lit in a couple of more etiore months tills foul fool thing been the matter with he bp disappeared completely anil and he be hack back in III ns its good or better condition than you were R ere before you ever went into the shop and right then la in when you b egin begin over right sit in that same anine haopt nobody can call me a hard roon mon 0 or r a moan mean fattier father I 1 do the beat I 1 can for my lily children arid and I 1 take the full responsibility for br braingin IngIn my sons up to be men now so BO fur far ive bulled with you lint vill im lot to keep on oil failen I 1 never tackled a jot job yet I 1 put through and im riot not goli to begin with my Ow im ill coln to make a man loan of you by godl goal I 1 ami aint babbs rose and went vent slowly to tile the door where lie turned you say you yell give rno file it a couple of months lie he said Sherl dan pushed it boll bell button on hla his desk hurney gurney said two months more would put you buck back where you were you go home anil and begin to get yourself in the right mental attitude before those two months tire are UPI pl good byl goodby good by sir air 1 datil bibbs meekly CHAPTER IX robbs room that neat apartment for transients to which tilt the george cargo had shown him upon ills his return 1 belll till bore tho ilia appearance of temporary quarters ju arters possibly because had no lie clear conception of himself as a permanent incumbent Ilo however wever he hall had sot set upon the tho the two photographs that hat ho be owned one a group grant twenty years old his fattier father arid and mother with jim und anti roscoe as boys and the ho other a cabinet of adith tit at sixteen arid and upon a table were the ilia books lie ho land had taken from ills his trunk sartor Res artus huckleberry finn and aft er whiles there were some other books in fix tho the trunk as a large one which re at the toot foot of tho the led bed adding to the general impression of it contained nearly till all the alic possess possessions lons BH an well its the secret life of hibbs sheridan and dabbs sat bat beside it the lay day titter after his interview with his father raking over it a small collection of in the top tray sonic somo of these lie ho glanced through dubiously finding little comfort tn in them but ono one made him smile nille then he shook his head ruefully indeed arid and ruefully began to rend it it was waa written ou on paper stamped hood sanitarium find and it bore the title leisure vor for a profession adapted solely to the pursuit of 0 happiness lit in thinking I 1 would choose that of an invalid hla his money is ig time and he may spend it on olympus the world must be on tile the other side bide ot of tho the wall and the wall must tie be so BO thick and so BO high that ho cannot hear bear tile tho roaring ot of the ilia furnace irea fires and tile the se screaming teaming of the whistles peace having read so far as tile the word peace bibbs suffered buffered tin an interruption interesting as a nice of contrast high voices sounded in the hall just outside hla his door lilt and it became 9 I 1 7 V pis aa 11 k A k t a im going evident that a comans womans quarrel was in progress tile parties to it having begun it lit arid continuing it vehemently its they came wit into tile hall yes you better go heinel babbs aicard his sister shrilly you better go home and heel your mind a little on your edle eiffel lie heard bis mother remonstrating as von seo here this was sibyl and tier voice was both acrid arid trem talons bollt Iol lt you talk to me that edyl I 1 came hwo to tell mother sherl dan what id beard and to lot tier tell father sheridan if she thought sho to arid I 1 did it for your own good yes you dudl and laughter tooted loudly yes yei yon 1 1 d dt you have hale any other lot oh 11 not you dont want to break it up between hobby bobby lamhorn lamborn aud and me bemuse edle edcel now bowl oh ob bush up inam mamma nial id like to know it if lie to come here what about his not going to her house ilow how ive explained that to mother sheridon sheridan sibyla sibyls voice indicated that she ghe was demanding the stairs people are not the same some borne things that should bo be shielded from a young this seemed to have no very soothing effect upon 1 hulth shielded front from a young garli the she abril shrilled led you seem pretty willing to be the shield lill 1 you look out roscoe koscoe notice what kind of a shield you arel sibyll sibyls answer was inaudible but mra ira Sheri dans flurried attempts at pacification were renewed rc newta oil oh hush up mamma and let me abonal it if you dare tell papa well well see you just jula come hack back in your own room and well not nol I 1 wont talk it overl over stop putting pulling met nio let nia me alenel and edith flinging digging herself violently upon door jerked it open swung round it into the room slammed the door behind tier her and threw herself face down upon the bell bed in such a riot of emotion that she had bad no perception of babbs presence in III the room gasping and sobbing lit in a passion of tears slie she beat the coverlet arid and pillows with her clenched lists fists Sile akl she ehe babbled aloud snake in tho the gragat catt catl dabbs saw that she did not know he be was there still and he be went softly toward the door hoping to get away before she became aware of him but some home sound of ills his movement readied her and she sat flat up tip startled facing him bobbst I 1 thought I 1 saw you go 90 out a while ago yes I 1 came back though im sorry did you hear me quarreling with sibyl only whit you said in the hall you lie down again E adith im going out no dont go site she applied a handkerchief to her eyes emitted a sob rob arid repeated her request dont go I 1 dont mind you youre ouro quiet anyhow mammas so fussy and never gets anywhere I 1 dont mind you at all but I 1 wish sit down all right and he ha returned to hla his chair beside the trunk go ahead and cry all you want edith he said no mo harm barm la in thail sibyl told mamma ohl oh she began clicking choking illary vertrees Vert reea had mamma and ana sibyl and I 1 to tea one afternoon two weeks or so ago and she had bad some women there that sibyls sibyla been crazy to get in with and she just juet laid herself out to 0 o make a lilt bit with em cm arid and ashes been running titter after em cm ever since arid and now she comes over here and adys they say kobby bobby lamhorn lamborn Is if so HO had bad that even they like his family none of the rilea people in town would let him in their houses in tho ilia first place its a falsehood and I 1 dont believe a word of it anti and in tho the second gond place I 1 know the reason she did it and more site she knows I 1 know lit I 1 wont say what it ignot Is not yet because papa and all of you would think im as aa crazy cra sy as abbe la 13 snaky and Ros coes such it a fool hed probably quit speaking to me but its truel just you watch her nil all I 1 ask just you watch that woman see stel I 1 As AB it happened bibbs was literally watching that woman glancing brorn the window lie he saw lloyl sli pause upon the pavement lit in front of the old house next door she stood a moment in 1 pep thought then walked quickly up the puth path to tile the door undoubtedly with tho ilia intention of calling lint hut lie did not in catlowi tills this vo 0 o his sister who w lio after delivering del vering herself of it a vague je jeremiad remind upon tho the subject of tier albiter lii iti laws treacheries deli departed arted it to tier heroin own chamber leaving him to ta his speculations mary was at that moment woride wondering ring what internal excitement mrs mra roscoe sheridan was striving to to master hut but sibyl had no idea that she was allowing herself to exhibit anything except the gayety gaiety which she conceived proper to the alie manner of a casual caller sho she was no more self conscious than she was vas finely intelligent sibyl followed her impulses with no reflection or clu question estion it was like a hound bound on oil tile the gallop titter after a master on oil I 1 horseback nor she had not even the instinct to stop and consider her effect it she wished to make a certain impression pres slon she believed that site she made it she bellev believed NI that title she was waa bell believed eved my mother asked me to say that she ava was a sorry she come down wary mary said when thoy they were seated sibyl ran the ilia scale of a cooing alm alance of laughter which she nad been brought up tip to consider the polite thing to do after a remark addressed to her ter by any person with whom she was not on oil familiar terms it was intended partly na its a courtesy and partly ns as the Count lation for an Impre impression islon of sweet ne nuy just thought ill id fly in a minute site said gold continuing the cooing to relieve the last doubt of her geniality 1 I wanted to tell you how much I 1 enjoyed meeting those nice people at too tea that noon you see coming coining here a bride vve ive had to depend on oil my husbands friends almost entirely mr sheridan has haq been so engrossed in III business ever since lie he was waa a mere boy why of course site she paused with the air of having completed nn an explanation of course sold uary mary sympathetically accepting it IL yes ive been seeing quite a lot of the that afternoon sibyl went M ent on oil really delightful people indeed they are yes yea P file stopped with ab nb tier her mind plainly wondering wandering to another matter bild mary perceived that she he had como come upon a definite errand mrs irs quit and lier her daughter were chatting about some or of the people here in town the other day clay said sibyl repeating the cooing and protracting protract ing it they said something that took me ilia by sur surprise we were talking about our mutual friend mr infer robert lamhorn P mary interrupted her promptly wo we consider sir robert lamhorn a friend of ours oura tc it bar surprise sibyl nodded eagerly as aa if greatly pleased just the way sirs tal talked kedl I 1 she cried with a vehemence that made mary hare yes and I 1 hear bear the way all you old families camilles here epcar of mary looked aside but otherwise she was able to maintain tier composure 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