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VOL. XLII GRAHAM CHURCH DIRECTORY. Baptist—N. Main dt.-Jw. W. Rose, Pastor. Preaching services every first and Third Sundays at ILOO a. m. and 7.30 p. m. Sunday School every Sunday at 8.45 a. m.—C. B. Irwin, Superin tendent. Graham Christian Church—N. Main Street-Rev. J. If. Trait', - Preaching services every Sec ond and fourth Sundays, at u.uu a. m. Sunday School every Sunday at 10.00 a. m.—K. L. Henderson, Super intendent. New Providence Christian Churcn —North Wain Street, near Depot— Rev. J. G. Xruitt, Pastor. Preach ing every Second and Fourth Sun day nighta at 8.00 o'clock. Sunday School every Sunday at 9.46 a. m.—J. A. Bayliff, Superin tendent. Christian Endeavor Prayer Meet ing every Thursday night at 7.45. o'clock. Friends—North of Oraham Put lie School—J ..Robert Parker, Pas tor. Preaching every Sunday at 11 a. m. and at 7.30 p. m. Sunday School every Sunday at 10.00 a. m.—James Crisco, Superin tendent. Methodist Episcopal, south—cor. Main and Maple St„ H. E. Myers Pastor. Preaching every Sunday at 11.00 a. m. and at 7.30 p. m. Sunday School every Sunday at a. in.—W. B. Green, Supt. M. P. Church—N. Main Street, Kev. 0. B. Williams, Pastor. Preaching first and third Sun days at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Sunday School every Sunday at 9.45 a. m.—J. L. Amick, Supt. Presbyterian—Wst Elm Street- Rev. T. M. McConneli, pastor. Sunday School every Sunday at 9.16 a. m.—Lynn B. Williamson, Su perintendent. Presbyterian (Travora Chapel)— J. W. Clegg, pastor. Preaching every Second and Fourth Sundays at 7.30 d. m. Sunday School every Sunday at 5.30 p. m.—J. Harvey White, Su perintendent. Oneida—Sunday School every Sunday at 2.30 p. m.—J. V. Pome roy, Superintendent. PROFESSIONAL CARDB~ E. C. DERBY Civil Engineer. GRAHAM, N.C.. National Bank ol Alamance B'l'a'g. BURLINGTON, N. C, Boom 18. let National Bank Building. •Phone 479 JOHN J. HENDERSON Attorn«y-at-Law GRAHAM, N. C. Dlllce over National Bank ol Alamance J, S- COOK, Attorney-at- Law, U UAH AM, .. N. C. 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If you want quick relief and cure this is the remedy. Sold by Gra ham Drug Co. ad?. LIVES OF CHRISTIAN MINISTERS This book, entitled as above, contains over 200 memoirs of Min isters in the Christum Church with historical references. An Interesting volume—nicely print ed and bound. Price per copy; cloth, $2.00; gUi top, $2.50. Bj .rmil 20c extra. Orders may b* sent to P. J. KKBNODLB, 1012 E. Marshall St., Richmond, Va. Orders may be left at this office. _ ALAMANCE GLEANER. IP AUTHOR, A "fWNSIEUII BEAUCAIRE" AA "the conquest of canaan" /i|3~\ "PENRCHD * ETC. ( 1 "1 SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER I—Sheridan's attempt to make a business man of his son Bibbs by starting him In the machine shop ends in Bibbs going to a sanitarium, a nervous wreck. CHAPTER ll—On his return Blbbe la met at the station J>v b'» slater Edith. CHAPTER m-He finds himself an in considerable ind unconsidered figure in the "New House" ot the Bheridans. He sees Mary Vertrees looking at bim from a summer house next' door. CHAPTER XV—Th« TertraJSes, old town family and Impoverished, call on the Bheridans, newly-rich, and afterward Am elias them. Mary puts into words her parents' unspoken wish that she marry one of the Sheridan boys. CHAPTER V—At the Sheridan house warming banquet Sheridan spreads him self. Mary frankly encourages Jim Sheri dan's attention, and Bibbs hears hs is to be sent back to the machine shop. CHAPTER Vl—Mary tells her mother about the banquet and shocks her moth er by talking of Jim as a matrimonial possibility. CHAPTER Vll—Jim tells Mary Blbbe Is not a lunatic—"Just queer." He pro poses to Mary, who halt accepts him. CHAPTER vm—Sheridan tells Bibbs he must go back to the machine shop aa soon as he is strong enough. In spite of Bibbs' plea to be allowed to write. CHAPTER IX-Bdith and Sibyl, Roacoe Sheridan's wife, quarrel over Bobby Lam horn; Sybil goes to Mary for hslp to keep Lam horn from marrying Edith, and Mary leaves her In the room alone. CHAPTER X—Bibbs has to break to his father the newa ot Jim's sudden death. CHAPTER Xl—All tbe rest of ths fam ily helplesa In their grief. Bibbs becomes temporary master of the house. At the funeral hs meets Mary and rides homs with her. CHAPTER Xll—Mrs. Sheridan pleads with Bibbs to return to the machine shop for his father's sake, and he consents. CHAPTER Xlll—Bibba purposely Inter rupts a tete-a-tete between Edith and Lamhorn. He tells Edith that he over heard Lamhorn making love to Roscoe's wife. CHAPTER XlV—Mutual love of mtulo arouses an Intimate friendship between Bibbs and Mary. CHAPTER XV—Mary Mils ber piano to help out the finances of the Vertreto fam ily. CHAPTER XVl—Rosooe and bis wife quarrel over Lamhorn. CHAPTER XVll—Sheridan finds Ros ooe In an Intoxicated condition during; of fice hours and takes him home. CHAPTER XVlH—Friendship between Bibbs and Mar/ ripens Into a more Inti mate relation, and under Mary's influ ence Bibbs decides to return to the ma chine shop. CHAPTER XlX—Sheridan finds his son Roscoe's affairs in a muddled condition, owing to his lntempsrata habits. CHAPTER XX—Bibba. under the inspi ration ot Mary's frlenlahlp, makes good in the machlntf'ehop. Sheridan is Injured while attempting to show the boy how to do bis work. CHAPTER XXl—Sibyl, Insanely Jealou* over Lamhorn's attention* to Edith, make* a scene In the Sheridan home, and L&mhorn la ordered out of the bouae by Sheridan. CHAPTER XXn-B!bb» find* treat happlnes* In hi* work and hi* growing love (or Mary. CHAPTER XX ITT—Edith leaves for New York, ostensibly to vl*lt a friend. Roocoe tell* hi* father that he la coins to quit the busluea* and go away with hi* wlf* CHAPTER XXlV—Sheridan announces that be la going to take Bibb* Into the office with him and make a builnea* man of him. CHAPTER XXX. Sibyl and fioscoe were upon the point of leaving when Bibbs returned to the new house. He went straight to Sibyl and spoke to her quietly, but so that tbe others might bear. "When you said that If I'd stop to think, I'd realize that no one would be apt to care enough about me to marry me, you were right," he said. "1 thought perhaps you weren't, and so I asked Miss Vertrees to marry me. It proved what you said of me, and dis proved what yon said of her. She re fused." And, having thus spoken, be quitted the room as straightforwardly as be bad entered it "He's so queer!" Mrs. Sheridan gaaped. "Who on earth would thought of bis doln" that?" "I told you," said her husband, grimly. "You didn't tell as he'd go over there and —" "I told you tha wouldn't hay* him. 1 told you she wouldn't have Jim, didn't I r Sibyl was altogether taken aback. "Do you suppose Ifs trust Do yo« suppose she wouldn't?" "He didn't look exactly like a young man that bad Just got things flxed up floe with bis girl," Mid Bherldaa. "Not to me, be dldn'tl" "But why would—" "I told you," be Interrupted, angrily, "she ain't that kind of a girl I If you got to have proof, well, I'll tell you and get it over with, though I'd Mttty near Just as soon not hare to tali a wbolr lot about my dead boy's private af fairs. She wrote to Jim she couldn't take him, snd It was a good, straight letter, too. It came to Jim's offlce; be never saw it She wrote It tbe after noon he was hurt" "I remember I saw ber put a letter in the mall box that afternoon," said Boscoe. "Don't you remember, SibylT I toljf you about it —I was waiting for you while you were In tbere so long talking to her mother. It was Just be fore we saw that something was wrong over bere, end Edith came and called me." Sibyl shook ber head, but she re membered. And she was not cast down, for, although some remnants of per plexity were left la her eyes, they were GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1916 dimmed by an Increasing glow of triumph; and she departed—after seme further fragmentary discourse—visibly elated. After all, the guilty had not been exalted; and she perceived vague ■ ly, but none the less* surely, that her Injur/ bad been copiously avenged. She bestowed a contented glance upon tbe old house with the cupola, as sbe and Boscoe crossed the street. When they had gone, Mrs. Sherldnn Indulged In reverie, but after a while she said, uneasily, "Papa, you think it would be any use to tell Bibbs about that letter?" "I don't know," be answered, walk ing moodily to the window. "I been thlnkln' about It" Be came to a de cision. "I reckon I will." And he went up to Bibbs' room. "Well, yon goln' back on what you said?" be inquired, brusquely, as he opened the door. "You goln' to take it back and lay down on me again?" "No," said Bibbs. "Well, perhaps I didn't have any call to accuse you of that. I don't know tfs you ever did go back on anything you said, exactly, though tbe Lord knows you've laid down on me enough. You certainly have!" Bberldan was baffled. This was not what he wished to say, but bis words were unmanage able; he found himself nnable to con trol tbem, and his querulous abuse went on In spite of him. "I can't say I expect much of yob—not from the way you always been, np to now—un less you turn over a new leaf, and I don't see any encouragement to think you're goln' to do that! If you go down there and show a spark o' real glt-up, I reckon the whole office 'II fall In a faint. But If you're ever goln* to show any, you better begin right at the beginning and begin to show It to morrow." "Yea—l'll try." "Too better, If It's In you!" Sheri dan was shqerly nonplused. He bad always been able to say whatever he wished to say, but his tongue seemed bewitched. He had come to tell Bibbs about Mary's letter, and to bis own angry astonlsbment be fonnd It Im possible to do anything except to scold like a drudge-driver. "You better come down there with your mind made up to bustle harder than the hardest workln' man that's under you, or you'll not get on very good with me. I tell you! The wa rto get ahead—and you better set It down In your books—the "You Don't Know What Work Is, Yet" way to get ahead Is to do ten times the work of the hardest worker that works for yon.' But yon don't know what work Is, yet All you're ever done was Just stand around and feed a machine a child could handle, and then come home and take a bath and go callln'. I tell you you're np against a mighty different proposition now, and if you're worth your salt—and yon never showed any signs of It yet—not any signs that stuck out enough to bang somebody on the bead and make 'em sit op and take notice —well, I want to say, right here and now—and you better listen, because I wsnt to say Just what fdo say. I say—" He meandered to a full stop. His mouth bung open, and his mind was • hopeless blank. nibbs looked op patiently—an ©IJ, •Id look. "Yea, father; I'm listening." "That's mil," aald Sheridan, frowning heavily. "That'* all I came to Bay, and yon better see't ye» remember Itr He ahook hla bead warnlngly, and went out, closing the door behind him with a crash. However, no aonnd of footatepa Indicated bla departure. He atopped juat outside the door, and atood there a mlnnte or more. Then abruptly be turned the knob and ex hibited to bla son a forehead liberally covered with perspiration. "Look here," be aald, croasly. "That girl over yonder wrote Jim a letter—" "I know," aald Blbtja. "She told me" "Well, I thought you needn't feel ao much upset about It—" The door closed on bla voice aa be wlthd(fw, bat the cowl anion of the sentence waa never thelesa audible—"lf you knew she wouldn't hare Jim, either." And be aumped hla Tray downatalra to tell hie wife to quit het frettln' and not bother bim with any more fool's' erraads. She "was shout to Inquire what Bibba "said," but after a second, thought sbe decided not to speak at an. She merely murmured a wordless as-1 sent, and verbal communication was j given over between them for the rest of the afternoon. Blbbe and Ma father were gone when Mrs. Sheridan woke, the next morning, and she had a dreary day. She missed Edith woefully, and aba worried about what might be taking place In the Sheridan building. Sbe felt that every thing depended on how Bibbs "took hold," and upon her husband's return In tbe evening she seised upen the ftrst opportunity to ask him bow things had gone. He waa noncommittal. What could anybody tell by the llrst day? He'd seen plenty go at things well enongh right at the start and then blow np. Pretty near anybody could show np fair tbe trst day or ae. There was a big job ahead. This material, such aa It was—Blbbe, in fact—had to be broken in to handling the work Roscoe had done; and then, at least as an overseer, be mnst take Jim's posi tion In the Realty company as well. He told her to aak him again in a month. ' But during the course of dinner she gathered from some disjointed remarks of his that he and Blbbe bad lunched together at the small restaurant where tt had been Bherldan's custom to lunch with Jim, *nd aha took thta to be an encouraging sign. Bibbs went to bia room aa soon aa they left the table, ind her husband was not communica tive after reading hla paper. |~ She became an andeua spectator of Bibbs' progress aa a man of buetoeea, although It was a progress she could glimpse but dimly and only In the eve ning, through his remarks and his fa ther's at dinner. Usually Bibbs waa ■Dent, except when directly addressed, but on the first evening of 'the third week of bis new career he offered an opinion which had apparently been the subject of prevloua argument. "I'd like you to understand just what I meant about thoae storage rooms, father," he said, aa Jackson placed his coffee before him. "Aber cromble agreed with me, but you wouldn't listen to blm." "Ton can talk, if you want to, and I'll listen," Sheridan returned, "but you can't show me that Jim ever took np with a bad thing. The roof fail be cause It hadn't bad time to settle and on account of weather conditions. I want that building put just the way Jim planned It." "You can't have It," said Blbba. "You can't,.because Jim planned for the building to stand up, and It won't do it The other ope—the one that didn't fall—ls so shot with cracks we haven't dared use It for storage. It won't stand weight There's only one thing to do.: Get both buildings down 'aa quickly aa we can, and build over. Brick's the beat and cheapest In the long ran for that type." Sheridan looked sarcaatlc. "Fine! What we goln' to do for atoraga rooms while we're waltln' for thoae few brlcka to be laldt" "Rent," Blbba returned, promptly> "We'll lose money if we don't rent, anyhow—they were waiting so long for you to give the warehouse matter your attention after the roof fell. You don't know what an amount of atuff they've got piled up on us over there. We'd have to rent until we could patch up thoae process perlle«-and the Krlvltch Manufacturing company'a plant la empty, right across the street. I took an option on It for us tbla morning." Sheridan's expression waa queer. "Look here!" be said, sharply. "Did you go and do that without consulting me?" "It didn't coat anything," said Bibb*. "It's only until tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock. I undertook to convince you before then." "Ob, you did?" Sheridan's tone was aardonlc. "Well, just suppose you couldn't convince me." "I can, though—and I intend to," aald Blbba, quietly. "1 don't think you understand the condition of those buildings you want patched up." "Now, see here," said Sheridan, with alow empbasls: "Suppose I bad my mind set about this. Jim thought they'd stand, and suppose It waa—well, kind of a matter of sentiment with me to prove be waa right." Blbba looked at Mm compaaalonato ly. "I'ns sorry If you have a asoti ment about It, father," ha said. "Hut whether yon bare or oot can't make a difference. You'll get other people hurt If you troat that proceas, and that won't do. And If yoa want a monu ment to Jim. at least you want one that will atand. Besides, I don't think yon can reasonably defend sentiment In this particular kind of affair." "Oh, yon don't T' "Mo, bat I'm sorry yoa didn't Mi me yoa felt It" flberldan wi« puzzled by bla •on'* tone. "Why arc 7M 'worry'V be »ak«d. curloualy". "Because I bad the building Inapee tor up there, thla noon," aald Blbba, "and I bad blm condemn both tboaa building*." "What?" "He'd been afraid to do It before, untllhe beard from oa—afraid you'd aee neVrit bla Job. But be can't un condemn them—they're got to come down now." Sheridan g*re blm a long and pierc ing atare from beneath lowered browa. Finally he aald, "How long did they give you on that option to convince mer "Until two o'clock tomorrow after noon." "All right," aald Bherldan, not re laxing. "I'm convinced." Blbba jumped up. "I thought you would be. 11l telephone the Krlvltch agent Be gara me the option until tomorrow, but I told blm I'd aettle It thla evening." Sheridan gazed after blm aa be toft the room, and then, though bla szprae alon did not alter In the a lightest, a aound came from him that at art led hla wife. It had been a long time since abe bad beard anything reaembllng a chuckle from blm, and tbla aound —al- though It waa grim and dry—bora that resemblance. She brightened eagerly. "Looks tike «■ / v J rn "They've Got to Come Down Now." r - . * ' he waa atartln' right well, don't It pa pat" "Startln'T Lord I Be got me on the hip! Why, be knew what I wanted— that'a why be had the Inspector up there, so 't he'd have me beat before we even atarted to talk about It And did you hear blm? 'Can't reaaonably defend aentlmentt' And the way he aay 'Us:' Took an option for UaP 'Btuff piled up on Ual'" There waa alwaya an alloy for Mrs. Bherldan. "I don't juat like the way he looka, though, papa." "Ob, there'a got to be something! Only one chick left at home, ao you atart to frettin' about It!** "No. He'a changed. There'a a kind of a aettlsh look to his face, and —" "I gueas that'a the common sense owls' out on blm, then," aald Bherl dan. "You'll see symptoms Ilk* that 'ln a gpod many business men, I ex pect" "Well, and be don't have aa good color aa he waa gettln' before. And he'd begin to fill out aome, but—" Sheridan gave forth another dry chuckle, and, going round the table to her, patted her upon the shoulder with hla left band, his right being atill heavily bandaged, though ha no longer wore a sling. "That'a the way It ia with you, mamma—got to take your frettin' out one way if you don't an other!" "No. He don't Wok well. It ain't exactly the way be looked when he begun to get sick that time, but he kind o' seems to be losln', some way." "Yea, be may 'a' lost something," aald Sheridan. "I expect he'a loat a whole lot o' foolishness besides bis Godforsaken notions about wrltln' poetry and —" "No," bia wife persisted. "I mean be iooka right peakld. And yeaterday, when he waa aettln' with ua, be kept lookln' out the window. Ha waan't raadin'." "Wall, why ahouldn't be look out (he window 1" "He waa lookln' over there. He never read a word all arternoon, I don't believe." "Look here!" said Bherldsn. "Blbba might 'a' kept goln' on over there the rest of hla life, moonln' on and on, but what be beard Sibyl say did one big thing, anyway. It woke blm up out of bis trance. Well, he hnd to go and bust clean out with a ban*; and that stopped hla goln' over there, and It atopped hla poetry, but I reckon he'a begun to get pretty fair pny for what he lost. I guess a good many young men liuve bad to get over worrloa like hla; they got to lose something If they're goln' to keep ahead o' the pro ceasloii nowadaya—and It kind o' laoka to ine, mamma, like Bibbs might keep quite a considerable long way ahead. Why. a year from now I'll bet you be won't know there ever waa such a thing us poetry! And ain't be funny? He wanted to stick to the shop so's he could 'think r Whst be meant waa, think about something useleas. Well, I guess he's keepln' his mind pretty occupied the other way these day*. Tes, sir. It took a pretty fair-sited shock to get blm out of bis trance, but It certainly did the business." He Pitted his wife's shoulder again, and then, without any prefatory aymptoma, broke Into a boisterous laugh. "Jlouest, msmma, be works like • gorilla r CHAPTER XXXI. And so Bibbs sat In the porch of the temple with the money changers. But Do One came to acourge blm forth, for this was the temple of Bigness, and the changing of money was boly wor ship and true religion. The priests wore that "settlsb" look Bibbs' mother had seen beginning to develop about hie aotith and ays*—a wary look wblcb she could npt define, but It comas with service at the temple; and It waa the more marked upon Bibb* for bis sharp awakening to the neces sities of that service. Be did as little "ueeleee" thinking as poaalble, giving himself no time for It He worked continuously, keeping bis thoughts still on bis work when be came borne at night and be talked of nothing whatever except bis work. But be did oot alng at It He was often In the streets, anL people were not allowed to alng In the streets. Tbey might make any manner of hide ous uproar—they could shake build Inga; tbey could oatthunder the thun der, deafen the deaf, and kill the alck with noise; or they.coald walk the streets or drive through them bawling, aquawklng or acreechlng, as they chose, If the noise waa tracaabiy connected with business; though street musicians were not tolerated, being considered a nulssnce and an interference. A man or woman wbo went singing for pieaa ure through the atreeta—like a crazy Neapolitan—would have been stopped, and belike locked ap; for freedom does r - A not mean that a citizen la allowed to do every outrageQUa thing that cornea into bla head. The atreets were dan gerous enough. In all conaclence, with out any alnglng! and the Motor federa tion Issued public warnlnga declaring that the pedestrian's life waa In bla own handa, and giving dlrectlona bow to proceed with the leaat peril. How ever, Bibbs Sheridan had no desire to alng In the streets, or anywhere, lie had gone to his work with an energy that, for the start, at least, waa bitter, and there waa no aong left In hlra. He began to know hi* active fellow citizens. Here and there among them he found a leisurely, kind aoul, n relic of the old period of nelghborllness, "pioneer stock," usually; and there were men—particularly among the merchants and manufacturers—"so honest they repu tations sometimes Attested by atorles of iierolc sacrifices to honor; nor were there lacking some Instances of gen erosity even nobler. Here and there, too, were bookmen, In their little lei sure; and, among the Germans, music men. And these, with the others, wor shiped Bigness and the growth, each man serving for his own sake and for what he could get out of it, but all united In their faith In the beneficence and glory of their god. To almost all alike that service stood aa the most important thing in life, ex cept on occasion of some such vital. brief Interregnum as the dangerous 111- qess of a wife or child. In the way 6f "relaxation" some of the servers took golf; some took fishing; some, took "ahows"—a mixture of Infantile and negroid humor, stocklugs, and tin mu sic; some took an occasional debauch; some took trips; some took cards; and some took nothing. The high priests were vigilant to watch that no "relaxa tion" should affect the service. When a man attended to anything outside his business, eyes were upon bltn; his credit was in danger—that la, bis life was In danger. And the old priests were as ardent as tbe young ones; the million was as eager to l>e bigger as tbe thousand; seventy was as busy as seventeen. They strovo mightily against one another, and the old priests were tbe most wary, the most plaus ible aud the most dangerous. Itlhbs learned be must walk charily among these —be must wear a thousand eyes and beware of apldera Indeed! And outside the temple Itself were the pretenders, the swarming thieves and sharpers and fleecers, the sly ras cals and the open rascals; but these were feeble folk, not dangerous once he knew them, and be bad a good guide to point them out to blm. They were useful sometimes, be learned, and many of them served as go-betweens in matters where business must touch polities. He learned also how brew eries and "traction" companies and banks and other Institutions fought one another for the political control of the city. The newspapers, he discov ered, had lost their ancient political in fluence, Especially with tbe knowing, who looked upon them with a skep tical humor, believing the Journals either to be retained partisans, like lawyers, or else striving to forward the personal ambitions of their owners. The control of tbe 'city lay not with them, but was usually obtained by giv ing tbe "floating voters" gin money, fnd by other largesses. Tbo revenues Of' the people were then distributed as fairly as possible among a great num ber of men who bad assisted tbe win ning side. Names and titles of of fices went with many of tlio prizes, and most of these title holders were expected to present a busy appearance ■t times; and, Indeed, souie among them did work honestly and faithfully. Bibbs bad been very Ignorant. All these simple things, so well known and customary, astonished him at first and once—in a brief moment of forgetting that he was done with writing—be thought that If be had known them and written of tbcm, how like a satire the plalnent relation of them mint have gocmed! Hinnci'Mt of all to lilni wn» the vehement find alneere patriot ism. On every utile he heard It; It waa ■ permeation; the newest schoolchlld caught It, though Just from Hungary and learning to atainmer a few word* of the local language. Everywhere the people ahouted of the power, the alse, the rlehea and the growth of their elty. Not only that, they aald that the people of their city were the greatest, the "finest" the atrougeat, the Biggest poople on earth. They cited no au thorities, and felt the need of none. ./ "That Stuffs Deader'n Adam'a Cat I" being themselves the people thus cele brated. And ft the thing was ques tioned, or If It was hinted that there might be one small virtue in which tbey were not perfect and supreme, tbey wasted no time examining them selves to see If what the critic aald was true, but fell upon him and hoot ed him and cursed blm, for they were aenaltlve. Bo Bibbs, learning their ways and walking w'lth them,'heark ened to the voice of the people and served Bigness with them. 'For the voice of the people Is the voice of their god. • •••••• Sheridan had made the room next to hit own Into an oOce for Bibbs, and the door between the two rooms usu ally stood open— father had estab lished that Intimacy. Qne morning in February, when Bibbs was alone, Sher ldnn came In, some sheets of typewrit ten memoranda in his hand. "Bibbs," he said, "I don't like to butt In very often this way. and when I do I usually wliili I hadn't—but for heav en's Bake what have yon been buying that ole busted lnter-traction stock for?" Bibbs leaned back from his desk. "For eleven hundred and flfty-flve dol lars. That's all It cost." "Well, It ain't worth eleven hundred and flfty-flve cents. You ought to know that. 1 don't get your Idea. That atulTs deader'n Adam's cat!" "It might be worth something—some day." "How?" "It mightn't be so dead—not if We went into It." said Bibbs coolly. "Oh!" Sheridan considered this mus ingly; then he said, "Who'd you buy It from?" "A broker —Fansmlth." "Well, he must 'a' got It from one o' the crowd o' poor ninnies that was soaked with It Don't you know who owned it?" "Yes, I do." "Ain't sayln', though? That it? What's the matter?" "It belonged to Mr. Vertrees," said Bibbs, shortly, applying himself to his deik. "So!" Sheridan gazed down at his son's thin face. "Excuse me," be said. "Your business." And ho went back to his own room. But presently he looked In again. "I reckon you won't mind Innchln' alone today"—he was shullllijg himself Into his overc&at —"because I Just thought I'd go up to tho house and get this over with mamma." He glanced apologetically toward bis right hand as It emerged from the sleeve of the overcoat. The bandages bad been removed, finally, that morn ing, revealing but three Angers—the forefinger and the next to It had been amputated. "She's bound to make an awful fuss, and it better spoil her lunch than her dinner. I'll be back about two." But be calculated the time of bis ar rival at tho new house so accurately that Mrs. Sherldan'a lunch was not dis turbed, and she was rising from the lonely table when be came Into the dining room. He bad left bla overcoat In tbe hall, but he kept bis hands in his trousers pockets. "What's the matter, papa?" ahc asked, quickly. "Has anything gone wrong? You alft't sick?" "Me!" He laughed loudly. "Me sick?" "You bad lunch?" _, "Didn't want any today. You can give me a cup o' eoffeo, though." She rang, and told Oeorge to have coffee made, and when he had with drawn she said querulously, "I Just know there's something wrong." "Nothln" In the world." ho respond ed, heartily, taking a seat at the head of tho table. "I thought I'd talk over a notion o' mine with you, that's all. It's more women folk*' luminous than what It IK man's. anyhow." "What about?"" "Why, ole Doc Otirney was up at the office thin morning awhile—" "To look at your hand? How'i he say If* iloln'7" "Fine! Well, he went In and sat ■round with llthh* awhile--" Mr*. Hherldnn noddej pessimistically. "I guess It'* 11 HIP you had hlui, too. I knew lllhli*—" TO BE CONTINUED. SIGNS OF THE TIME. 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