Show ate AIr OVEL BOO BOOTH OF F d MONSIEUR BEAUCAIRE THE CONQUEST OF CANAAN PENROD PENROD ETC I r IGHT cr 19 BY S' S q SYNOPSIS Sheridan's Sh attempt to males make a busis busi- busi s man nian of ol his son Bibbs by hy start him im in the machine shop ends it in ill ins 1 bbs s going to a sanitarium a nervous nervous nerv nerv- ous wreck On his return Bibbs is ii 6 met mel at the station b by his sister Edith He finds himself an inconsiderable and unconsidered figure in the New NewHouse NewHouse House 1 of or the Sheri dans He sees J I Mary larr Vertrees looking at him from froma a summer house next door The Ver Vei old town to family and impoverished impoverished call on the new new- rich ly-rich and afterward discuss them 1 Mary puts into words her parents unspoken wish that thal she marry one of the Sheridan boys hoys At the Sheridan housewarming banquet hanquet Sheridan spreads ds himself Mary Iary frankly en encourages encourages encourages Jim Jinn Sheridan's attention and Bibbs hears he is to be s sent nt back hack to the machine shop Mary lary tells her mother about the banquet and shocks her mother b by talking of Jim as a matrimonial possibility Jim tells Jary 1 Bibbs is not a lunatic lunatic just just queer He proposes to Mary lary who half accepts him Sheridan tells Bibbs he must go back to the mach machine ne shop as soon as he is strong enough in spite of Bibbs Bibb's plea pica to be allowed to write Bibbs has to break to his father the news of Jims Jim's sudden death All the rest of the family helpless in their grief grieC Bibbs becomes temporary master of oC the house At Atthe the funeral he meets Mary lar and rides home with her Mrs Sheridan pleads with ith Bibbs to return to the machine shop for his fathers father's sake and he Mutual love of music arouse arouse arouses arouses' ail an intimate friendship beit be- be it a Mary and Mary Mary- sells 3 her lier piano to help out e ot of the Vertrees family Sheridan finds Roscoe In an intoxicated d condition during office hours and takes him home Friendship ip between Bibbs and Mary Iary ripens into a more intimate intimate inti Inti- mate relation and under Marys Mary's in influence in- in fluence e Bibbs decides to return to 11 machine shop Sheri Sheridan an finds liis 1115 son Roscoe's affairs in a muddled c condition on owing to his intemperate j habits habits l bits I Six o'clock BUlbs Bibbs responded brisk brisk- ly And I want to tell you you Im I'm go o o- fig In tn a cheerful spirit As you said tt Ill I'll go JO anti and Ill I'll like MiLe it your 11 0 lookout bl his father grunted d. d put you back on u tb the mH machine You get bet nine uin dollars dollart a 11 a week More lore Ole than Im I'm worth too too said said Bibbs cheerily That hat reminds me I didn't menu you by Midas In that hit nonsense Donsen e Id I'd been writing I meant meant- Makes a hell of ot a lot of ot difference what you wean mean I just wanted you to know Good Goodnight Goodnight night father The sound bound of ot the young mans man's footstep foot toot steps step ascending the tails stairs became Inaudible Inaudible inaudible In In- audible send and the house was quiet t But presently as Sheridan sat staring angrily an an- at nt the fire the shuttling shuffling of ot a l pair of ot slippers could be heard descending dei and aud 11 Mrs Sheridan made malle her a appearance appearance appear appear- j ance her bel oblique expression siou and tb the st state te of or lice her toilette tollette being those of or a person who after atter trying unsuccessfully j- j fully tully t to sleep on sin one side has got up UI Jo to look for tor bur burglars lars Papa she exclaimed drowsily row lly you ou go KO to bed 7 It must be bt oln on leven o'clock he yawned and seated herself near g d dm stretching out her ber hands to the fire the matter she h asked ls sleep sleep and nd anxiety striving sluggishly I. I bly with each other In her ber voice I knew you were worried all dinner time You got lo something n new w on your mind Jims Jim's hem bein taken 11 away like he was m What's you now papa Nothing I 1 She Jeered feebly N tell me nie that You sat at up UI to see Bibbs LIbbi didn't you P PHe He starts In at the shop again tomorrow to tu morrow morrow morning said Sheridan Just the same as he be did before Just pre How long how long you goin to keep kep him at it papa she asked timidly Until he be knows something The unhappy 1115 man mau struck his palms palm together together to to- gether then got to his feet teet and began begau to pace lIace the room as was WIlt bl his wout wont when be he talked bilked Hell go back track to the machine lit lu couldn't learn to tend prop- prop r I erly in the lt months he be way was there nn and hell he'll stick to It till he be does learn It That boys boy's whole life He there's theres been beena a settin up UI o o 0 something muli mulish tb that's thata against everything e I 1 want him to d. d do I 1 dont don't know what It IM is I but Its ita got gotto gotto gotto to be worked out of or him Now labor laboC aint any more a a. simple question than thau what It was wua when w we were young My 7 idea 11 is that th t outside o 0 union troubles troubled blei E Mr Yr a f 1 the man mau that ran can man manage l' l mel melIs Is the man Ulan that's been one are himself Well ell I set JOet Bibbs to learn the men and to learn the business a and lid he lie set himself him trim self to balk on the first Job jou That's That what ha t he be did lilli rind and the balks balk's lusted lasted close on to three years If It he balks hulks a again alu Im I'm just done with him Sometimes I is feel eel like I wa was pretty near done doue with er e everything thlu anyhow I knew there was something else said Paid Mrs Sheridan blinking over oer a 3 yawn a wn You better let it go fO till tomorroW tomorrow tomorrow to to- morrow and get to bed now now less you'll tell me rue Suppose something happened to Roscoe he said Then what'd I have bae to look forward to Then what could I d depend ou on to hold thin things 3 together together to to- gether A him mix A that hasn't learned how to push a strip o 0 zinc along a groove oiT she yawned You needn't wo iy about Hos oe papa lapa lIes He's the strongest child chillI we had h I u never er did know anybody kl keep P better health than he does docs I dont don't believe belie hes lies e even eu u had bad hada bada a cold old in ill five tive years You better go go up to bed lIed papa IWI Suppose something did happen to him thou though h. h You dont don't know what It m means lIIS keepin property tog together ther these Just days Just it alive let alone wa rush in kin it grow the way I do I tell you when a man dies if Jr that dead deadman's deadmans deadmans deadman's mans man's amt on the job jolt night and atul day lay er e everything everything- thin ho he built II 11 set get lt carried oft off My ly Lord when I 1 think o 0 such things thing com comm in to me It dont don't seem like I deserved Il it no it-no no truant man l lt ever t r tried harder to raise his boys ri right ht than I have I planned 1 arid and planned and aud planned how bow to bring brin em eat up Uj to IM be II to drive i tin till wolves waives off oIT iud and how bow to In hI builders builder r to build buill and build bail bigger I 1 tell you this business s life is no fools fool's job nowadays nowadays-a a a mans man's got ot gotto t tto to have eyes eys in m the till hack back of irk his hl head HI You heat hear talk sometimes d make you th l had UI but rI right thel n t br o lr Dine Dine- bine- bine e. e hl body u IJa about tire the wren emu r u. u unrest You bet het t tV esi a a unrest t There aint any man alive smart to see set e hat Its It's gout goin to do llo to us In tire the the end nor what lIa day lt It its it's got ot set et to bu bust hust t loose but it its it's frothing t and lud inthe in lm the boiler holler This country's been film up with It from trow all over the world would for fora a good many litany year yea and the old 1111 ohl meelin days ur are stead dead and done dOllt- with Church aint w It used to Ill be Ins In's what it used to be hl eve be tH h ll tu turned nell up from frau the tile bottom dudUl 11 crowds growth I is so Iri roots roM In lit Inthe hl th the air There's Theres an au awful i ruction ru Uon gomon gom goin on ou and you got ot t to k keep if t youre you're goin oin to ke keep p your balance hlll on the top of it And the schemers They run like b 1 bugs 1 on the bottom ora ofa bM bf ard after after r any piece o 0 money they h herr hear tr Is h loo loose e. e Fool schemes 11 and nd I crooked schemes the th fool tool ones ont are the most mo t and Ute the wo worst t You got ot to b t to keep klep your money after aCter youve you've made walle It And Aud the tire woods WOOLi are in full o o 0 ml mighty Industrious men men that's only got one one motto Get the other oth r fellows fellow's money before tie he gets yours And Ild when wb n a amans' amans a mans mans' built hullt as ail I 1 have ve when he's hes bunt built Rood good toot and awl strong and ii made ade good things 14 grow row and aud pro prosper those prosper I Uto r-Uto those e ear ar are the Ute fellows that lay for ti- a chance to slide la is and sneak the ben beti- II- II alit ent of oC it and aad I put their names to it And Anil nIl what's the u use e my wy ba bavin ever been beau born If such a II thing aa as that Is Iii gem to happen What's rhal's the us use my ba havin vin worked my wy life lite and aud soul Joul Into my bu business sin lill if It Its It's all gem goin oin to b bedis person acid scattered as is Im I'm in ill inthe inthe the grou ground d He Ill strode up and down tb the long room gesticulating gesticulating e n re regarding the thi troubled and drowsy figure by the fireside Ills His throat rumbled th thunderously thunder thunder- the words came with stormy bitterness You think this is i tl ne for tor young wen men to be he on beds of or eatie ease I tell teti you there never was such mch sucha t a time b before Core there nev never r was such Much nuch opportunity I Th re e sluggard ard 15 Is de de- despoiled spoiled while he Heep yes sleeps yeH yea by I Gr-I George If If-a If a m mitu tu lays laya down they'll eat ed him b before before be be- fore COrt he ht wakes wake wakes hut but th the live Uve man mau can CUrl build straight ht up till h he touches the sky r firms ls is the business mans man's day It used to be the We soldiers soldier's r day and tind the tbt I Is IK ours burs And Aud AudIt state statesman's day but this it aint a Sunday to go ta it its it's turmoil tur tur- moil rn ll turmoil turmoil and and you got to go out aud and live Irve Jt it and breathe it and make it yourself lt or you'll only be a i deadman dead man Ursa walkin around youre you're alive And that's that what my son Bibbs has hns been en Join doin all ull iris his bt life and what hed he'd tether rather do now than go out and do dohi hi iris part by m me And Aud it if anything hap blip happen happens pens pen Jeu to Kosco Oh do 10 stop over such ucb nonsense nonsense non none sense en Mrs MM Sheridan interrupted Irrl- Irrl irritated into sharp sharO wakefulness for tor the moment There aint anything gola to bapp happen u to Roscoe and youre you're Ju Jut just t to yourself about Arent Aren't you ever Iver golu oln to b bed d 1 halted 1 All rj right bt mamma mamma mam mam- ma b he said lI with a vast Vlist sigh Lets Iet 50 go 0 up up And he snapped Hn off th tb the electric elec elce- trl trie light leaving th the rosy glow of or tJ tits the tire Did DM you yon speak tl to no Roscoe cot she he hep p yawned rl rising in IOl In l fler r drow drow- siness Did Dill you yon mention about wh what t tI I told you the tile other evening t No Xo I will tomorrow 1 t t But Roscoe Hoscoe did not come downtown till the next da day nor nOI the till next nor nOl did Sheridan bE see fit tit to enter his sons son's hou house e. e He lIt waited Then Their on the day daj ay of oC the month Roscoe Hosco walked into his fathers father's office at Line in inn the morning when Sheridan happened hap pene-d pene to be bl alone The They told me uric downstairs u you'd left word you wanted to see me Sit down do said Sheridan rising eoe SI sat 1 In Ills s fa fattier father th r walked close to him him sniffed suspiciously aril and then walked ell a away smiting smiling bitterly Boh Bolt he hl t exclaimed Still at it Yes said Roscoe Ive I had a l couple of or drinks this morning What about it I reckon I better adopt some sane decent young man his father r returned Id brin bring Bibbs Bibby up here and amI put him in ill your place if it he was fit I 1 would Better do it It Host oe Hos-oe oe assented as sul sul- sul- sul lenly When'd you begin this thing I always did IUd drink a little Ever since I grew crew rl W up that is Leave Iea that talk out You know what I 1 mean meau Well eli I 1 dont don't know as I ever eer had hall too much in iii le hours until hours until theother the theother other day I Sheridan be began an cutting cuttin Its a n lie Ive I've had Hay Ray Wills up from your YOUl office of or- nee lice He didn't want to give I e you awa away but I put the hooks into him kiln and he came through h. h You were drunk drum twice before and couldn't ut work You been Il your office ottile for rol drinks every elY few Cw hours for tor the last three t wl weeks ks I been lIeen over your books Your office is way behind tind You haven't done any auy work to count in lit a montt Hoscoe's head was WU sunk between en hi his shoulders I cant can't s ind very h talk about It ft father rather he said pleadingly No Xo Sheridan cried Neither either earn can earnI I 1 What hat do lIo you think it means menus to tome tome tome me He Ill dropped into the chair at athis athis his bi big bis desk groaning I cant can't stand to t talk lk about it t any moren you canto can cau cauto to listen u but Im I'm goin oln to find out what's the ilia matter Hel with you and Im I'm goin to straighten you out alt Roscoe shook his head helplessly You cant can't straighten me out See h here re said Sheridan Can you go back to your office and stay sober today while I get et my work done or orwill orwill will I have nave to hire a 1 couple o 0 huskies to follow you around and aud knock kuock the tire whisky out o o. your haud hand if ir they see you ou try in to take it You needn't worry about that that said Roscoe Roscoe- looking up with a n faint r resentment Im Inn not drinking be- be be 1 cause caUSt cause Ive l Ive I've rot crot ot a n thirst Well ell what hat b t have haste you got goP Nothing Nothing you ou can caul do anything any- any thing about Nothing I I tell you Well We see set about that said Sheridan Sherl Sheri dan dau harshly Now ow I cant can't fool tool with you today and aud you get lt up out o o. that chair an aunt and get out o 0 my office ottice You bring your wife yle to dinner tomorrow You didn't come cowe HI lust lat t but j ut you ou come tomorrow Ill I'll talk this thi out with withy y you u when the women folks are the phonograph after dinner Can n you OU i keep rep ep sober soher till then You better hetter be sure because e Im I'm Im I'm goin oin to I send Abercrombie Aber Aber- Abercrombie b r- r crombie down to your puns tt le a e every ery ery little little while and hell he'll let me know v paused You Hoscoe at the door told Abercr bibie about It he asked il Told him blur And Sheridan lau laughed hed hideously Do you suppose theres there's an au elevator boy In the wh whole le dam daul build build- tug ing that ou on to you Roscoe settled his hat bat down over his eyes and nd went out CHAPTER X Who looks a mustang In tin the th eye eya chang charts chang Bun Bash Crash B Bang n So sang Blabs Bibbs hi his musical gayeties inaudible to his fellow telloW workmen because because be be- cau cause e of or the n noise ise of ot the machinery He had bad |