Show atie e turmoil i i by BOOTH I 1 copy copyright right 1913 by aurer A brothers 1 SYNOPSIS I 1 Sherid tins attempt to anake a business of hi its mon biblis by blurting liln him in the machine tio penda in hibbs going t to 0 a a nervous wreck on hla his return finds himself an able and unconsidered figure ligure in th now il louse of tile Sherl dans tho the Vert esea old town family next floor door and impoverished dished call on the newly rich and rid mary ary afterward puts into words word e be her parent 6 on s okon wish that silo she I 1 marry one no of 0 t the r sheridan ae lloya at t tha he she dan hou st warming banquet sheridan spreads himself mary blary frankly encourages jim Sheri dans attentions mary her mother by talking of at jim as n ft a matrimonial jim tells mary bibbs I 1 Is a not a queer tie lie pro bes to mary I 1 who half accepts him I 1 s sosea heri herldan clan tells tell dabbs he must KO go baek to the ithe machine shop ng as noon an lie Is strong enough in alte spite of plen plea to he be allowed to 0 o write edith bibbs minter a an n d sibyl Sheri dans wife quarrel over ever nobby bobby Larn horm sibyl roea goes to airry for help to kerp keep lamborn train from marrying edith rind mary leaves tier her in tile the room alone diblin has hag to break to life his fattier father the news or oc jims sudden deah eath tl all the test real of tile the in babbe becomes becomer temporary master rrt nater of the house at tile the funeral lio fie ineeta enry ani iddles II 11 idea home with lier her L love 0 v a has 38 a awakened w 3 k ried in th the b bosom 0 0 of dibbs ibb ge shy hy ho hopeless pele 8 1 love v for fr something me th in unattainable abat t nab I 1 th the emotion ti Is I 1 r reflected t d inho in his hl 0 gentleness gentle n ti nees le with his grief ar strick en f father the W will it stir tir his h ambition b 1 ti and impelli impel him to activity ti Ity th that will h help iphi him win th the e girl ail fl finally ilaw will old sheridan rl dil come coma to understand d t rid and appreciate ap pp rl at CHAPTER XII continued thoro there came camo a second explosion arid uncle eincle gideon ran out into the jillbba went to the head of the great stal rense anil and looking down discoe tred the source of tho the disturbance grandson a boy of fourteen ahad brought tits ills camera to tile tho funeral and was of tile tho moor viido gideon reassured naB aureil by explanation would have re turned to finish his from bit fall the but bibbs detained I 1 hani ini 0 nud and after a little arg argument ament peri persuaded shaded him descend to tho the dining room whither followed after i closing the door of ills hla fa room lie ile kept his hl eyes oil gideon after irinner preventing her eral attempts on the part of chilt corn com tu to re aRcena tile stairs and it wits hii a relief to bibbs when george an all bounced noun ced that an automobile was waiting to ta convoy convey tile the ancient ninn mail and this grandson to their train they were the stile last to leave and when they halt had rone gone went ling to ills his own owl tu ile HP himmell hlin cill wearily upon the bed but presently rose went to ithe window and cooled lor for a long time nt at the darkened house ebere mary vertrece Vert lived then CP bp opened tits his tr took g v small notebook filled with fragmentary serif lings and began be ganto to write laughter niter after a funeral in this r action people will laugh at anything and at nothing the jand plays pay a dirge on tile way to tile cemetery but when it iturra back and tile the mourning carriages are out of hearing it strikes up dart dark town Is out tonight to night that la is natural but there are arb women whose rhose laughter la Is like the whirring or of whips beauty in IB not out of place among gravestones it la in not out of place placa anywhere gny where cut but a woman who sho has been betrothed to a man boull not inot look b beautiful cauti rul a lit hla a funeral A woman might look beautiful though at the funeral of a man whom she flie had known and liked and in th that a t caff too she ehe would probably not want to talk if she drove home from tile come aitery will wa his brother nor would she want mant tile the brother to talk nevertheless too much silence la in open to suspicion it nia ma bo be reticence or it may be a vacuum it may be dignity or it may be false teeth silence can be golden yes yea but perhaps it if ft a woman of the world should find by accident sitting beside a man for tile the length of amp it must necessarily take two no slow blow old to jog three miles she might expect that man to sa aay y something of 0 tome some sort bortl it lie he did not even try but sat bat every tep step of the way as dumb as EL a frezen fish she might think him film a frozen lh fish and she alie might be right she might be right it mile elie thought film about as pleasant a corn com as bildad the tha Shu litte te closed his notebook it in his trunk then after a period of melancholy contemplation lie he undressed put oil a dressing gown nud ami slippers and went softly out into the liall to his him fathers cra door upon tile the floor was a tray winch which bibbs had seat george earlier in the to apon upon a table in Sheri dans dooin but bilt the food was untouched hebbs 4 stood listening out alil tile the door for several minutes ther thee carne came no gound bound from within and tie be went back to hla his own room and to bed in the morning he woke to a state of being hitherto unknown in his ha experience peri ence sometimes in the lie process of waking there la Is a little pause sleep has gone but coherent thought has not begun it Is if the moment as aa we say before we remember and for or the first time in life it came to him bringing harln a vague happiness Ilo however wever it was a brief visitation and was gone before he lind finished dressing it left a little tri trail till the plea pleased recollection of it and the he puzzle of it which chich remained unsolved and in tract fact waking happily lil in the morning la Is not usually the result of a drive home from a funeral no wonder the sequence evaded babbs Sherl dant ills fattier had gone when lie he came downstairs went on down to Is a office jes same anine jackson informed hin film came sat break breakfast fas table till nil liy by eat cat bothin not liln george bring nice brenk fas but he aln eat a thing went on downtown JOB jes same lie yousta do I 1 reckon putty much evy thing coln on same as it yousta do it struck that jackson ang right rhe ilie day passed as of other tier days dayn had passed sirs mrs sheridan and ed edith I 1 t I 1 I 1 were in fit black and mrs sheridan cried a little now and then but no other external difference was waa to bo be seen been went for tits his drive and tits ills mother wont went with him an am site sho sometimes did when the weather was pleasant altogether the usualness of things was rattler rather startling to during the drive mrs lira Sherl sheridan dnn talked fragment attly of jims childhood hut but you remember that sho she said litter after narrating nn an episode you yon were too little lie ile was always a good boy just juat like that anil and hod save whatever papa gave him and put it in tho the bank I 1 reckon 1111 just about kill your father to put somebody in his place as aa president of the realty company bibbs I 1 know he vant cant move roscoe over ho fie told mo me last week hed already put as aa much on oil it 11 as any one man could handle and not gu go crazy oil oh its a pity silo she stopped to wipe tier her eyes its a pity you run more with jim and klud kind 0 pick up his ways think what meant to papa bowl now you never did run with either roscoe or jim any even before you got sick rich of course you were younger but it always did seem beem queer and you three byln brothers like that I 1 dont belleve believe I 1 ever saw you and jim sit bit down together for a good talk in my life mother ive been awny away so BO long bibbs returned gently and since I 1 time came honic home I 1 ile ho was busy you see and I 1 much to any about the things that interested him because I 1 dont know much about them its a pity I 1 oh its ita n she moaned and have linao to learn to know about lem em now bibbs I 1 sald aal much to you because I 1 felt it was all between your fattier father and you but I 1 honestly to do believe it will hlll jast kill him if he be has to have any more trouble on top of nil all you inus tnt let him lubbs you you dont know how bow hes bes grieved over you and now lie he cant stand any more he just canett whatever lie he says saya for you to do you do it jillbba you do it I 1 I 1 want you to promis i me you ou will 1 I would it if I 1 could he said sorrowfully row fully no no nol I 1 why cant you sho she cried clutching tits arm lie ile wants you to go back to the machine shot shop and all on earth he be asks aska Is for you to go back lu lit at cheerful spirit so BO it wont hurt youl you all he be asks look bibbs were bottin gottin back near home but before we vi e got get there I 1 want you to promise in me e that do what ho he asks you to 11 promise romise mel me in her earnestness she cleared away her black veil ell that she might see him better and it blew out on oil the smoky wind ile he readjusted it tor for her before lie it spoke ill KO go back in as cheerful a spirit as I 1 can call mother ho be said there here I she alic exclaimed satisfied oat lined Iha tB a rood good boyl boy nil nii I 1 wanted you to say dont rive give roe me any credit crullo lie e salil said ruefully there lant g else for rap me to do no dont begin that wayla way no ND no ho he soothed tier hei well have to begin to make the spirit it a cheerful one wo we may they were turning into their own driveway as he spoke and he glanced at the old house next door mary vertrees was visible lu in the twilight tw standing upon the front steps step bareheaded the door open be hind bind her she bowed gravely we may what abat asked mra airs sheridan with a slight impatience what la Is it mother of till nil tile the queer boyal bayal she bho cried you always were always you forgot what you just promised me have you no I 1 1 I he be answered as the car stopped no the spirit will be as cheerful as aa tile the flesh will let it mother it wont do to behave like ills HI voice wits was low find aud in her movement to descend from the car she failed to hear his final words behave like who bibbs nothing 11 hut the she wits waa fretful in her grief edlef you said it do to behave like allio somebody behave like who it wan just nonsense he explained turning to RO go in ill an obscure person I 1 dont think much of lately behave Ile have like who she repeated and upon his yielding to her petulant insistence she made tip her mind that the only thing to do was to 0 o tell dr gurney about it like bildad the was waa what bibbs said CHAPTER XIII the outward usualness of things continued after dinner in the lie library while his wife oot eat in her customary chair anz gazing rig a at t the 6 fire r e sheridan let tile the unfolded even evening tig paper rest upon tits lila lap though now anil an then lie he lifted it ns am it to read hibbs came in noiselessly and sat in a corner doing nothing and from a reception room across the till hall till an indistinct vocal murmur became just nt at intervals Inter vala once when murmur grew louder under stress strem of some irrepressible merriment editha voice could be heard I hobby lobby arent you awful and sheridon sheridan glanced across at his wife appealingly site sho rose at once and went into tho the reception room there won was a flurry of whispering and the sound bound of tiptoeing in the he hall half E adith and tier her suitor changing quarters to a more distant room mrs mra sheridan returned to her chair in the library 1 they I hey wont bother you any more papa capil she said in a comforting voice she told me nt at lunch hed phoned he wanted to come up this evening and I 1 said I 1 thought hed better watt wait it a few days but site she said eald shed already told old him he could sho she paused then added rather guiltily 1 I got kand of a notion maybe roscoe dont like him as am muck na as lie he used to maybe maybe you better ask roscoe papa and as sheridan nodded solemnly she concluded in haste dont dollt bay any I 1 said sald to I 1 night might bo be wrong about it anyway lie ile nodded again and they sat ant for or sonic borne time in a silence which mrs herldan heil dan broke with a little sniff having fallen luto into n reverie that brou brought glit icara that alsa vertrees Vcr treca was a good girl she bhe said bald she was all right iler iier husband evidently had no difficulty in following her train of thought for he nodded once more affirmatively did you now how d did id you fix fir it about the tho the realty company silo sho faltered did you jl lie ile rose heavily helping himself to ills his feet by the arms anna of his chair 1 I fixed it he said in a husky voice lie ile went to her put hla his hand upon tier her shoulder and drew a long audible tremendous men cloua breath its ita my bedtime mamma im coln up when lie he reached tho the door ho he fi topped and spoke again without turning to look at her the realty compan companell go right on just tho the same he said its like its like sand band mamma it puts me in mind of cauldren chul dren in a one of em cm sticks tits his finger in tile tho sand pile aidi ana makes a hole anil and another of em cm it 11 pat the place with ills hla hand and all the little grains of sand band run in and fill it up and settle gettle against one another and then right away its flat on top again and you cant tell there ever was a hole there the realty company 11 go ou on nil all right mamma there aint any things anywhere I 1 reckon that go right ou just the same and he passed out slowly into the hall then they heard his heavy tread upon the stairs mrs Sherl sheridan dnn rising to follow him turned a piteous face to her son eon its so forlorn ab she e sat aalde it chokingly thaes tho the first time he spoke since he came in the house this evening I 1 know it must al a hurt him to hear edith laughin with that lamborn shed to let him come right tho the very first evening this way shed to done IN III she just seema to lose her head over him film and it scares me inc you heard what sibyl said the other day and and you heard what what what edith said to sibyl bebbs finished the sentence for her we cant have any trouble 0 that kindl she walled oh it looks as 1 if V 11 1 1 they looked up in no bolcom welcoming rig manner movin up to this new house had bad brought ui its awful bad lucki luck it scares met she put both her hands over her face oh dibbs bibbs it you only so if you could only been a kind of dependable sent son I 1 dont know what were all comin tol and weeping she followed her husband gazed for fora A white at the fire then he rose abruptly like a man who has come to a decision and briskly sought the room it was called the smoking room where edith sat with mr fr lamhorn lamborn they looked up tip in no welcoming manner at bibbs entrance and moved their chalm to a less leas conspicuous adjacency good evening said eald dibbs pleas antly and he seated himself in a leather easy eamy chair anuar them kimt la Is it baked asked edith plainly astonished nothing tip fie returned smiling site alic frowned did you want something she asked nothing in the world father and mother ollier ni have gone upstairs I 1 shi shant tnt be going up for several bourm and there seem to be anybody left for me to chat with except you and sir lamhorn lamborn chat wit till she echoed loi bously ialy 1 I can talk about almost anything said with an air of genial politeness it matter to me I 1 dont know much about buil ness lf if what yi happened to be talking about hut but you arent in 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