| Show I 1 A ar tn oy P ISE so cc TM CONQUEST or OF CANAAN PF 41 lye I 1 1916 sy 17 HARPER EQ MW SYNOPSIS 12 Sheri dans attempt to make a business man ot of ahls li is son bibbs by starting him ir in the ina machine chirm shop ends in bibbs going coins to tc a sanitarium B nervous wreck on ills re turn biblis finds himself an inconsiderable and figure in tho the new house of tho the Sherl dans the old town family next neit door and impoverished calls on the Shen Sheri dans newly ilch and mary ilary afterward ait erward puts into words het her parene paren ls wish that sua she marry one of 0 tho the sheridan boys mary frankly encourages es jim Sheri dans attentions jim tells mary bibbs ta is not a lunatic just queer he proposes to mary who halt half accepts him sheridan tells elbby lie he must go eo back to tho the machine shop as soon boon as he la is strong enough in spite of 0 bibbs s plea to be allo allowed med to write edith bibbs r sister ister and sibyl roscoe sheridan Sheri dans a wife quarrel over bob bobby by lamhorn lamborn sibyl goes to tilary mary for help belp to keep lamhorn damho rn from marrying edith and mary diary leaves her in tho the room alone dibbs bibbs has to break to hi ather the news of jims sudden death all AH the rest of the family helpless in their grief bibbs becomes temporary master of 0 the house at the funeral I 1 ho 10 meets maty and rides hoino hoine with her bibbs purposely interrupts a tete a tete between edith and lamborn lie he tells adith that lie he overheard lamhorn lamborn making love to llos Ros coes wife doctor gurncy finds biblis well enough to go back to tho the machine shop mary and bibbs meet by accident and form it a pleasant friendship roscoe sheridan and his wire wife quarrel desperately about bobby lamhorn lamborn bibbs roes to work old man Sher Sh erkAn kilin hurts his hand edith and ana sibyl quarrel again over lamhorn lamborn who Is ordered off the premises by editha rather father old oid man sheridan was a slave driver though he rec OS nize himself as such he drove his wife he drove his sons he drove his daughter I 1 he drove himself his wife was I 1 s like putty there was too m much uch of himself too much iron in 7 edith and in bibbs to be han ban died easily growing out of this f situation two tragic incidents break into the lire lie of the tha slave driver this installment Is a real thriller CHAPTER bibbs continued to live in the shelter of his dream these were turbulent says anys in the new house but bibbs bad no part whatever in n the tui turbulence bulen e he seemed an absentminded absent minded stranger strange r present by accident and not wholly aware that be was present he would sit ait faintly smiling over pleasant ima imaginings and dear reminiscences of his bis own while battle raged between edith and her father or while sheridan un loosed jeremiads Jeremi ads upon tho the sullen roscoe who drank heavily to endure them ne ile was sorry for his big father and for roscoe and for edith and for sibyl but their sufferings and outcries seemed far away sibyl was under gurness gurneys Ourn Gur eyB care roscoe rescoe had sent for him blin on night not long after bibbs returned the abandoned wraps taps and during the first days of sibyla illness the doctor found it II necessary to be with her frequently and to install a muscular nurse and whether he would or no gurney received from his hysterical patient a variety of pungent information which would have staggered anybody but a family physician phy among other things he was given to comprehend the 7 ji e ki 41 it 0 1 J W 1 dont come in roscoe she murmured change in bibbs find and why the zinc eater was wag not putting a lump in its operators gizzard as of yore sibyl was not delirious she aoa a thin little ego writhing and shrieking ing in n pain life had hurt herand berand ber and bad driven her into hurting hera beja elC elt lier her condition was only the adults exaggeration 0 of that of a latter after a bud brul w there must be screaming reaming and telling mother all about the 0 hurt and how bow it happened sibyl babli battled led herself hoarse when gurney withhold withheld morphine she went from the beginning to the end in a breath no protest stopped her nothing stopped her you ought to lat me die ale she walled wailed what bat harm have I 1 ever done to anybody that you want to keep me alive just look at my life I 1 only married roscoe to ret get awny away from home and look what it got me into I 1 wanted to 0 o have a good time and how could I 1 wheres Vh cres any good time among these Sheri dans th they never even had bad wine on the table I 1 thought I 1 was marrying into a rich family where id meet attractive people id read about and travel arid and go to dances and oti oh my lord all 1 I got was those these Sherl sherldine dins I 1 did the best I 1 could I 1 just tried to live things were just beginning to look brighter find and then I 1 saw how edith was getting him away from me and what could I 1 do what can call any woman do in my fix I 1 rould nt stand it I 1 went to that icicle that vertrece Vert girl and she could have helped me a little and it have hurt her let her wait sibyls sibyla voice hoarse from babbling became no more than a husky whisper though she strove to make it louder she struggled halt half apri upright ailt and the nurse restrained her id get up out of this bed to show her she cant do such clangs to me I 1 was absolutely ladylike and she walked out and left me there alone shell see she started after bibbs before jims casket caske t was fairly underground and she thinks ashes landed that poor lomi but shell see shell see and edith have told what she told rascoe it have hurt her to let me alone and he be told her I 1 bored him telephoning him blin I 1 wanted to seo see him ne lie have done it IL no he her voice grew fainter fot for that while with exhaustion though she would go over it all again as soon as her strength returned she lay jay panting then seeing her husband standing disheveled in the doorway dont come in roscoe she murmured 1 I dont want t to 0 see you and as he turned away she added im kind of sorry for you roscoe ner her antagonist edith was not more coherent la in her own wallings wai tings and she had bad the advantage of a mother for listener she had also the disadvantage tage of a mother for duenna and mrs sheridan under her husbands sharp tutelage proved an effective one edith was reduced to telephoning lamhorn lamborn from shops whenever alio could juggle her mother into a momentary distraction over a counter edith was incomparably more in love than before expulsion her whole being was nothing but the determination to hurdle everything that separated her from him she was wag in a state that could be altered by only the lightest and most delicate diplomacy of suggestion but sheridan like legions of other parents intensified her passion and fed it hourly fuel by opposing to it an intolerable force lie ile sm s ore she should cool and thus set her on fire edith planned neatly she fought hard bard every other evening with her father and kept her bed between times to let him see aee what his violence had done to her then when the mere sl sight bt of her set him to breathing fast she sald said pitiably that she might bear lier her trouble if she went away it was wag impossible to be in the same town with lamborn Lan ihorn and not think always of lum him perhaps in new york she might inight forget a little she had written I 1 to a school friend established quietly with an aunt in apartments and add a month or bu BO UL of theaters mid and restaurants bring peace sheridan shouted with relief lie ho g gave her a copious check and she left upon a monday morning wearing violets violeta with her mourning and having kissed everybody goodby except sibyl and bibbs she might have kissed dibbs cibbs but he failed to realize that the day of her departure had bad arrived and was surprised on returning from his hh zinc enter eater that evening to find her gone 1 I suppose be married there he be said casually sheridan warming his ed feet at the fire jumped up fuming either you go out 0 hero here or I 1 will bibbs he be snorted 1 I dont want to he be in the same room with will the p particular artica R ar kind of idiot you are arc ashes through with that eliat laurall liu rall all she needed was to be kept away from him a few weeks aud and I 1 kept her away and it did the business for heavens sake go on out 0 berel Bl libs obeyed the gesture of at a hneil all still bandaged anil and the black silk was sull round neck but no word of Gurne yand no excruciating twinge of pain could keep sher idana hand in the sling the wounds fc light enough originally had become infected the first lie he had bad dislodged the bilida bandages gs igind and lie healing albinj was long delayed sheridan Sherl dau had the habit of L it gesture lie be could not take time to remember lie he said that be must be careful arid and lie ho had bad also a curious indignation dig nation with his hurt he refused to pay it the compliment of admitting I 1 its tr existence the saturday following editha departure gurney came to the gle sheridan Sherl dau building to dress the wounds holinds and to have a talk with sheridan which tho the doctor felt had become necessary rut but lie ho was ft a little before the appointed appoint oil time and was obliged to wait a few minutes in an tinte anteroom room there was a directors meeting of some sort in 4 4 gita 1 Y F 1 I goodby good by Sterl A i Sheri dans office the door was slightly ajar leaking cigar smoke and oratory the latter all Sheri dans and gurney listened no sir no sir no sir he heard the big voice rumbling and then breaking into thunder 1 I tell you nol some 0 you men make mo me sick lose your conf llene in albl almighty lity god if a doodlebug flipped hla his hind leg at you you sa say y moneys tight all over the country well what if it Is theres no reason for it to be tight and its not coln to keep our money tight light youre always to the woodshed to hide bide your nickels in a track because some fool newspaper says tho the markets a little you listen to every street corner croaker and then conic come and set here and try to scare me out of a big thing were in on tills this understand I 1 tell you there never dever was better times those these are good times and big times and I 1 wont stand for filly any other kind 0 talk this count rys on its feet as it never was before and this cites on its feet and coin to stay there and gurney hoard heard a series of whacks and thumps thump upon the desk 11 bad times sheridan vociferated with accompanying thumps rabbit talk these times are glorious I 1 toll t lit you were vere in the pr promised land and were coin to stay there nil all gentlemen the loan goes the directors came forth flushed and and gurney hastened in nis his guess was correct sheridan had been thumping the desk with hii big right eight hand the physician scolded wearily making good the fresh damage na as best he be might and then he be said what ho be lad bad to say on the of roscoe and sibyl his opinion meeting ushe expected a warmly hostile reception but the result of this conversation was wag that by telephonic command roscoe awaited his bis father an hour later in the library at the new house bouse gurney says your cifes able to travel sheridan said brusquely as ho he tame came in yes roscoe occupied a deep chair ind and sat in the dejected attitude which had become his habit yes she Is edith had bad to leave town and so sibyl thinks shell have to too oh ob I 1 put it that way roscoe protested drearily no I 1 hear you there was ivas a bitter gibe in the fathers voice ind lie he added its a good thing ashes goin abroad if shell stay there I 1 think any of us want her lore any more you yon least east of all its no u uze uie ze your tal talking icing that way said laid Ilos roscoe coL you wont do any good well when you comin back to your ulce mee sheridan used a brisker kind tir r tone three weela since you showed up there at all when you coln to be ready to cut out whisky nd ind all the rest 0 the foell foolishness buess and icart in again you ought to be able 0 to o make up for a lot 0 lost time and a sot ot 0 split spilt milk when that woman takes herself out 0 the way and lets you and all the rest of us alone its no use father I 1 tell you I 1 know what gurney was going to say any to you im not iong going hick buck to the office fice im done walt a minute before you tall talk that way sheridan began his sentry so go up and down the room 1 I suppose you yet know its taken two pretty good men about sixteen hours a day to set things straight and ret get em right again down in your office they must be good men roscoe nodded indifferently 1 I thought I 1 was doing about eight mens work im glad you found two that could handle it look here if I 1 worked you it was for your own good there are plenty of men drive hardern hir dern I 1 do and 19 yes there are some that break down all the other men that work w ork with em cm they either die or go crazy or have to quit and nrc are no use the rest of their lives the lasts lases my any c case aso I 1 guess complicated by domestic difficulties cul cult ties les 11 you set there and tell me you give up Sheri dans voice shook find so did the gesticulating hand which he extended appealingly toward the despondent spon dent figure dont do 14 it roscoe coel dont say it say come down there again and bu be a man this woman aint coln to trouble you any more the work aint goin to hurt you toll if you lin vent got her to worry you and you can get 61 this nasty whisky guzzling it aint fastened on 4 you yet dont say its no use on in earth roscoe hoscoe mum i bled no use on earth look lere here it if you want another months vacation P 1 I know gurney told you so the use usa talking about vacations gurney sheridan vociferate vociferated ferat ed the name savagely its gurney gurney gurney always gurney I 1 dont know what the worlds comia to with everybody around squeal in the doctor says this and the doctor says that it makes me sick hows this country expect to get its work done if gurney find and all the other old nanny goats keep up this blatten blatt ln lu so be says you got nervous exhaustion induced by overwork and emotional strain they always got to stick tho the work in if they see a chance I 1 reckon you did have the emotional strain and ills alls the matter with you be over it this womans comans gone and works the very tery thing to make you quit fr frett ettla ln about her did gurney tell you I 1 was fit to work shut up sheridan bellowed im so sick 0 that mans mails name I 1 feel like sho shooting shoot otin ln anybody that says it to meo me lie he fumed and chafee chafed swearing indis then came and stood before ills hii son bon look here do you think youre loin doln the square thing by me do you now how much you worth ive got between seven and eight thousand a year clear of my own outside the salary that much Is mine whether I 1 work or not it Is you could a pulled it out without me I 1 suppose you think at your ago age no cut but its mine and its enough my lord its about what a congressman gets geta and you want vaut to quit therol therel I 1 suppose you toll think get the rest when I 1 kick the bucket and all you have to do la Is lay back and wait you let me die tell you right here never soo see one cent of it you go out 0 business now and what would you know about bandalin ban dlin it ivo civo or ton or twenty years from now because I 1 intend to stay hero here a little while yet my boyl either cither get it away from you or sell for a nickel and let it be split up and lie ile whirled about marched to the other end or of the room and stood silent a moment then he said solemnly listen it if you go out now you leave me in the lurch with bothin on gods green earth to depend on 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