| Show h BOOTH AUTHOR OF OF- OF MONSIEUR BEAUCAIRE 44 THE THE CONQUEST OF CANAAN PENROD ETC I ii I 2 1915 S i SYNOPSIS Sheridan's attempt to make a business bual- bual ness man of or his lily son Bibbs by start starting Jug ing him in the machine shop shop- ends II in f it Bibbs going to a sanitarium a new nerv- nenI I buS wreck On his return Bibbs i is bt linet t at the he station by his sister Edith y He He finds himself an inconsiderable I i and unconsidered figure In the New NewHouse NewHouse NewHouse House of the Sheri dans lIe He sees Mary Iary Vertrees looking at him from froma a summer summer house next door The Ver Vet old town family and impoverished Impoverished Impo iI hed call on the new neO rIch ly and afterward discuss them Mary puts into words her parents unspoken wish that sh she marry one of ot the Sheridan boys At the Sheridan housewarming banquet Sheridan spreads himself Mary frankly encourages encourages encourages en en- Jim Sheridan's attention And Bibbs Bibba hears he be is to be he sent back to 10 the machine shop shoJI Mary Nary tells her mother about the banquet and aud shocks her mother by talking of or Jim as a matrimonial possibility Jim tells Mary Iary Bibbs Is not a lunatic lunatic just just queer He lie Ie proposes to Mary who half accepts him Sheridan tells teUs Bibbs he must go back to the machne machine sh shop p as soon as he Is strong g enough In in spite of or Bibbs Bibb's pica to be aU allowed owed to write Bibbs Dibbs has to break to his father the tho news of Jims Jim's sudden death All the rest of the family helpless in their grief Bibbs Dibbs becomes temporary master of the house At the funeral he meets Mary Nary and rides home home with her Mrs Sheridan pleads pleada with Bibbs to return to the machine shop for his fathers father's sake and he hj consents Mutual love of of music l Arouses an n intimate te friendship be- be Bibbs and Mary lan Mary sells er ier piano to help out the finances ot of othe he Ie Vertrees family Sheridan finds c. c Roscoe Hoscoe tn in n an intoxicated intoxicated ed con condition condition on W during tl foj and tat s him i ir r home homo Fr l Kwee Bibbs s and Mary ripe a more Intimate intimate Inti- Inti mate mate relation as ana R under lI Mary Maryj f. f q t j Jn tn n fluence Bibbs Dibbs d ides to r hp othe ito tto o the machine sh sho shop Sheridan finds hf so sort Ro o ob's s 's n in-n muddled d condition owing to his Intemperate rate habits Bibbs under the Inspiration l loC ra of oC Marys friendship makes make go good d in m the machine shop Sheridan is is- is Injured injured In- In while attempting to show v the boy how to do his work Sibyl in ins insanely sanely Jealous over o Lamhorn's rn's attentions attentions attentions at at- to Edith makes a scene in inthe inthe inthe the Sheridan home and Lamhorn is h. isS S J. J S ordered out of oC the house by Sheridan So iSO youre you're out your advice are you said Sheridan What Is It Let Le Leher her see him all ali she all she wants Youre a a- a Sheridan gave it upI up I eel dont don't know what to call you Let her see him all she wants Bibbs repeated thoughtfully Youre op up against something too strong for you rou If It Edith were a weakling you'd have bave a ch chance nce this tills way but she She's got a lot of at your determination father and with what's going on au Inside lu- lu side elde of at her shell she'll beat you You cant can't keep her from seeing him Wm as long as she feels about him the way she does now You cant can't make her think less lessof lessof of ot him either Nobody can Your only chance Is that shell she'll do it herself a and d l If you give her time and go easy she probably will Marriage would do it for tor her quickest but that's just what you dont don't want and as you dont don't want it you'd better better- t l 1 stand nn any more Sheridan bUl burst burfet t out If It its it's conic como to Bibbs ad ad- 4 me how to run niu this I better better better bet- bet ter resi resign n. n Mamma wheres where's that nig I ger George Georgl Maybe he he's got some Romo plan pIau bow I better bettor manage my family Bibbs for tor Gods God's sake Mke go o and lay luy down Let her see him all she wants Oh Lord Heres Here's wisdom heres here's Bibbs said Mrs Irs Sheridan If it you haven't got anything to do you might step over and take Sibyls Sibyl's wraps home she home she left em era in the hall ball I dout dont think you seem to quiet your poor father fa Ca ather a- a ther very much Just now All right light And Bibbs Dibbs bore Sibyls Sibyl's wraps neros across the street and delivered them to Roscoe who met him at the door Bibbs said only I Forgot these and amI Good night Roscoe cordially and cheerfully and returned retained to the new lew house Ills His mother and aud father fatter were still talking in the tho II library r but with discretion he passed rapidly on and upward to hi his hIlt own room loom and cud there be proceeded to write in III his notebook There seem to be another curious thin I about love lov Bibbs Bibba wrote Love Lov Lovs is s blind r while It lives Uve and antt anI only opens open Its eY eyes B and becomes bacome ry wide awoke awake when who It dies die Let It alone until then i. i You cannot reason with love or with 1 t say any other passion The v wise UM wl win 1 not wish Ish Jor tor or love lov nor love nor for amb ambition These Those ore are pat pas ir 1 s done Blons and bring others other In their train l' l r and oil all lI blind t- t rr by UJo mid aad a a. a J i heart for or the win I f 1 W a 0 is us love love- It 11 It is 19 dangerous dan dan- lan an- i for a blind bUnd thing to be turbulent there are re precipices In life Ufe One would not cross a a. pass mountain with a thick cloth over his eyes Lovers do Friendship walks gently and with willi open eyes To Tr walk to church with a t friend To sit beside her there therel To rise when she rises and to touch with ones one's thumb and fingers fingers the other half hall of or the hymn book that she holds holds' What lover with his fierce ways was could know this tran transcendent happiness Friendship brings everything that heaven en could bring There Is no labor that cannot become a a. living rapture If It you know that a friend Is thinking of or you as you labor So you sing at your work Forthe For Forthe the work IB is part of the thoughts of your friend so you love lo It Love Is demanding and claiming and In- In Friendship is all aU kindness kindness kindness-It It makes maltes the world glorious with kindness What color you see when you walk witha with a friend You see that the gray sky is brilliant and shimmering you see that the smoke has warm browns and Is marvelously marvelously mar- mar sculptured the sculptured the air becomes Iri Iridescent rt- rt descent You see eee the gold In brown hair hall Light floods everything When you walk valk to church with a friend you ou Know that life can give you nothing richer You pray that there will be no change In anything forever What an adorable thing it Is to discover discover dis dis- dis cover a I little foible In your friend a bit bitof bitof bitof of vanity that gives you one thing more about her to adore adorel On a cold morning she will perhaps walk to church with you without her furs and she will wUl blush and return an evasive answer when you ask h her r why she does not wear them You will say no more because you Ou understand She looks beautiful in her furs you love their darkness against her ber cheek but you comprehend that they conceal the loveliness loveliness loveli loveli- ness ness of or her throat and the fine line of or her er erchin chin and that she also has comprehended comprehend comprehend- ed this this and wishing to look still more bewitching discards her furs at the risk of or taking cold So you hold your peace and try to look as if It you had not thought ht It out This theory la l- satisfactory except that It does not account for the the- absence of the muff mutt Au Ah well there must always b he be a mystery somewhere Mystery Sara Is a part pari of ot enchantment Manual labor Is best Your heart can sing and your mind can cin dream while your hands lands are working You could not not haVe hae a 0 singing heart and a dreaming mind all nU allday day clay If Ir you yuu had lied to scheme out dollars orf or It If f you had to add columns of ot figures Those rhose things tate talc your jour attention Y You u cannot be thinking of your friend while yoU your write let letters letter er beginning Yoi a of r th the theard 1 th itI tart r ved ard and Dt du dun duy Y noted But t In n with th your hands aUd aUg aU nil d g t g i and then man af- af afi I t Mit iW 1 benr pear ear the he i 4 ot our leads ends gree greeting jil l ways r theror ther or lor you Who would wake wale from front ai CAream dream as as this y I i 1 an andT t sea music music In J c Men nl 0 los os serenading t iro iq R a o es InT what loom what could coutu bring lg such things Into the turmoil Yet they j they theY theY-A are h here rel and to roses roes s blossom In tn Inter i that t r soot Oot That Is Is' what It means not to be alone That Is is what a L friend gives give you o t i It CHAPTER X JI t t I It t Bibbs was the only Sheridan t to s se soundly through the thc night and to wake wp J at dawn with a light heart Ills f illness was vaguely diminished by the troublous state of affairs in his family Tubbs was a sympathetic eu person a ly touched but he be was Indeed lI living ing ingIn in a dream and all things things things' outside of it were wre veiled and remote remote for for that is the the way nay of oo youth In a dream And Bibbs w who had never neer before been of any ago either either old or young had come cometo to his youth at last He ne went whistling from the the- house before even his father tather had come up up- stairs There was a fog tog outdoors saturated sat sat- orated with a fine One powder of at soot and though Bibbs noticed absently the dim shape of an automobile at the curb before Roscoe's house he did not recognize recognize recognize rec rec- it as Doctor Gurneys Gurney's but went cheerily on his way through the dingy mist And when he was once more installed installed installed in in- stalled beside his faithful zinc eater cater he be whistled and sang to it as tl other workmen did to their own machines sometimes when wings things went well Ills comrades in the shop glanced at him amusedly now and then They lilted liked him and be he ate his lunch at nt noon with a group of at socialists who approved approved approved ap ap- ap- ap proved of at his Ideas and talked of at electIng electIng electing elect- elect Ing him to their association The short days of ot the year ear had come and It was dark before the whistles brew When the signal came Bibbs went to his office where he divested himself of at his overalls overalls his his single dIvergence divergence divergence di dI- from the routine of ot his LIs fellow fel fe low worl workmen workmen and men and after aCter that he used soap and water copiously This was his transformation scene he passed passel into IntI the office a rather frail trail young working man noticeably begrimed and passed out of at it to the pavement a cheerfully preoccupied sample of ot gentry gentry gen gen- tr try fastidious to the point of or elegance The sidewalk was crowded with the bearers of or dinner palls paU men and boys and aud women and girls from the workrooms workrooms workrooms work work- rooms that closed at five fi Many burd bur bur- vied lied and some loitered th they went both hoth east and aud west jostling one another U. and Bibbs turning his face race homeward was forced to go slowly Coming toward vard him as slowly through the crowd crowll a tall toll girl caught sight of or his long thin figure and stood still until he be had hid almost passed her for tor in the thick crowd and ond the thicker gloom he lid did lJ not recognize e her thou though h his shoulder actually II t torched ched hers hels He would have hu gone gOlle h by but she he delightedly and lie he fie stopped topped short startled Two boys one chasing the theother other oilier swept ept between then and ami stood i still P peering ll ig ab about u Seep It I J per fie 1 him himI 1 I knew new you I she said Good heavens cried Bibbs I thought it was your voice coming out of or a fl star Theres only smoke overhead said said- Mary and laughed again There arent aren't any stars Oh yes there were when were when you laughed She took his arm arat and anti they went on Ive c conic come n e to walk alk home with you Bibbs I wanted to But were you here In the theIn theIn the the- In the the- dark Yes Waiting Y Yes I Bibbs was rn radiant he felt suffocated ed with happiness He lie began to scold tier her But its it's not safe saCe and Im I'm not worth it You shouldn't have have have- You ought to know better What did didI did did- I 1 was In this part of town already she che he said At least I was only seven or eight blocks awn away and it was dark 1 when whIm I came out and Id I'd have had ball to togo togo togo j go home alone and alone and I preferred going j borne home with you Its pretty beautiful for tor me mc said Bibbs with a deep breath never know what it was to hear your then to toto toto toto to- to laugh in the darkness darkness and and 1 to see you standing there Oh It Was like lIke lIke-It It was like lIke lIke- How now can I tell you i what it was like They had passed beyond d the crowd now and a crossing lamp 1 shone upon them which revealed the fact tact that she site was without her ber furs i Here was a puzzle However allowing allowing allow allow- ing it to stand his solicitude for her 1 took toak another turn I think you ought j to have a car ear he said especially when you want to be out after atter dark lark You need one in winter anyhow Have you ever asked your our father for tor one No said Mary I dont don't think Id I'd care for one particularly But my mother tried to Insist on sending one over here every afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon noon for me I wouldn't let her because because because be be- cause I like to walk but a girl girlA girl girl- A gul likes to walk too said Mary Let me tell you where Ive I've been this afternoon and null how I happened happened hap hap- to be near enough to make you take me home Ive I've been to see a little old man who makes pictures of the smoke He has n a sort of ot warehouse for tor a studio and he lives there with his mother and find his wife and their seven children and hes he's gloriously happy appy Id I'd seen one ope one of or hl his pictures res at atan atan aton an on exhibition and I wanted to see seemore pore more of at them so he be showed them to o me He has almost everything he ever painted I 1 dont don't suppose hes he's sold more than four tour or five pictures In his life He De gives cs drawing lessons to keep D. D alive I I low How do you mean he paints the smoke Bibbs s asked l Literally lt rally He ne paints frOni hi his btu stu stu- ulo Io 10 window and from th the str street ct any any- ny here where lIe He Just paints what's around Its It's beautiful Him and and im-and and 4 True The smoke Wonderful He He sc sees the sky 54 gh It t pt somehow He ne does doc the u Jy roofs pots o PI c cheap eap houses u es through a o. o haze Laze o of at nA e do s smoky sunsets and sunrises J I r nI and d b I other I f a tr f solid slow c col col- l bm d f grow inn wi with the tte Lazy light hazy light in in fA the tho distance an e auto and he be has w YA h c en s lJ of Of r e all all II ste with h the smoke smoVe and n w rH ti s ti and Jets t o of vapor r t 10 IH fit 1 bJ i 4 i L L Lr r r zt f 1 r rr r Ive I've Corns Come to Walk Home With You Bibbs have colors like an nn orchard in 10 mid mid- April Im I'm going to take you there some Sunday afternoon Bibbs Youre showing me the town he be said I 1 didn't know what was WIlS In It if |
