VOL. XLII
GRAHAM CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Baptist—N. Main St.—Jas. W.
Hose, Pastor.
Preaching service* every lirst
and Third Sundays at 11.00 a. m.
aud 7.30 p. m.
Sunday School every Sunday at
9.45 q. m.—C. B. Irwin, Superin
tendent. '
Graham Christian Church—N. Main
Street—Rev, J. F. Truit',
Preaching services overy Sec
ond and Fourth Sundays, at n.ou
a. m.
Sunday School every Sunday at
10.00 a. m.—K. L. Henderson, Super
intendent.
New Providence Christian Church
—North Main Street, near JJt pol
ite v. J. G. Truitt, Pastor. Preach
ing every Second and Fourth Sun
day nights at 8.00 o'clock.
Sunday School every Sunday at
9.45 a. m.—J. A. Bayliff, Superin
tendent.
Christian Endeavor Prayef Meet
ing every Thursday night at 7.46.
o'clock.
Friends—Morth of Graham Pub
lic School—J .Kobert Parker, Pas
tor,
Preaching every Sunday at 11 a.
m. and at 7.30 p. in.
Sunday School every Sunday at
10.00 a. m.—James Crisco, Superin
tendent.
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Methodist Episcopal, »outh—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
9.4$ a. m.— W. B. Green, Supt.
M. P. Church—N. Main Street,
Kev. O. 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. Amicfc, Supt.
Presbyterian—Wat Elm Street-
Rev. T. M. McConnell, pastor.
Sunday School every Sunday at
9.45 a. m.—Lynn B. Williamson, Su
perintendent.
Presbyterian (Travora Chapel)—
3. W. Clegg, pastor.
PreachiDg every Second and
Fourth Sunday* at 7.30 p. m.
Sunday School every Sunday at
2.30 p. m.—J. Harvey White, Su
perintendent.
Oneida—Sunday School every
Sunday at 2.30 p. m.—J. V. Pome
roy, Superintendent.
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BYNOPBIB.
CHAPTER I—Sheridan's attempt to
"ake a business man of his son Bibbs by
starting him In the machine shop ends In
Bibbs going to a sanitarium, a nervous
wreck.
CHAFTER ll—On hla return Bibbs la
met at the station -bv b'» sister Edith.
CHAPTER Hl—He finds himself an in
considerable Ind unconsidered figure in
the -'New House" ot the Bheridans. He
sees Mary Vertreea looking at him from
a summer house next door.
CHAP PER IV—The Vertrfc-Aes, old town
family and Impoverished, call on the
Bheridans, newly-rich, and afterward dis
cuss them. Mary puts Into words her
parents' unspoken wish that she marry
one of the Bneridan boys.
CHAPTER V—At the Bhertdan house
warming banquet Sheridan spreads him
self. Mare frankly encourages Jim Sheri
dan's attention, and Bibbs hears he la 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 aa a matrimonial
possibility.
. CHAPTER Vll-Jlm tells Mary Bibbs
is not a lunatic—"Just queer." He pro
poses to Mary, who half accepts him.
CHAPTER Vlll—Sheridan tells Bibbs
he must go back to the machine shop aa
soon as ne Is strong enough. In spite of
Bibbs' plea to be allowed to write.
CHARTER IX—Edith and Sibyl, Roscoe
Sheridan's wife, quarrel over Bobby Lam
horn; Sybil goee to Mary for help 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 news of Jim's sudden death.
CHAPTER Xl—All the rat of the fun
ny helpless In their grief. Bibb* becomes
temporary master of the house. At the
funeral he meets Mary and rides boms
with her.
CHAPTER Xll—Mrs. Sheridan pleads
with Bibbs to return to the machine shop
tor his father's sake, and hs consents.
CHAPTER XIII-Blbbs purposely Inter
rupts a tete-a-lete between Edith and
Lam horn. He tells Edith that hs over
heard Lamhorn making love to Roscos's
wife.
CHAPTER XlV—Mutual love of muslo
arouses an Intimate friendship between
Bibbs and Mar£.
CHAPTER XV—Mary sells her piano to
help out the finances of the Vertrees fam
ily.
CHAPTER XVl—Roscoe and his wife
quarrel over Lamhorn.
CHAPTER XVll—Sheridan finds Roe
ooe In an Intoxicated condition during of
fice hours and lakes him horns.
CHAPTER XVlll—Friendship between
Bibbs and Mary ripens Into a more Inti
mate lelatlOD, and under Mary's Influ
ence Bibbs decides to return to the ma
ohlne sbop.
CHAPTER XlX—Sheridan llnde his son
Roscoe's affairs In a muddled condition,
owing to his Intemperate habits.
CHAPTER XX—Bibbs, under the Inspi
ration of Mary's frlenlshlp, makes good
in the machine shop. Sheridan la Injured
while attempting to show tha boy how
to do his work.
CHAPTER XXl—Sibyl, Insanely Jealous
over Lamhorn'a attentions to Edith,
makes a scene In the Sheridan home, ana
Lamhorn la ordered out of the house by
Sheridan.
CHAPTER XXll—Bibbs finds great
happiness In his work and his growing
love tor Mary.
CHAPTER XXin-Edlth leaves for
Mew York, ostensibly to visit a friend.
Roscoe tells his father that ha la going
to quit the business and go atoay with his
wife.
CHAPTER XXlV—Sheridan announces
that be Is going to take Blbba Into the
office with him and make a business man
of him.
a consuming fury against the very
self of the law—the law that took Jim
from you. The very self of the law
took Roscoe from you and gave Edith
the certainty of beating you; and the
very self of the law makes Bibbs deny
you tonight. The law beats you. But
you've set yourself against It, to bend
It to your own ends, to wield It and
twist It—"
The voice broke from Sheridan's
heaving chast In a shout. "Yes! And
by God, I will!"
"So AJax defied the lightning," said
Gurney.
"I've heard that dam'-fool story,
too," Sheridan retorted, fixedly. " 'De
fied the lightning,' did be, the jackass!
If he'd been half a man he'd 'a' got
away with It. We don't go showln' oft
defyln' the lightning—we hitch it up
and make It work for us like a black
steer!"
"Well, what about Bibbs?" said Gur
ney. "Will you be a really big man
now and—"
"Gurney, you know a lot about blir
ness!" Sheridan began to walk to and
fro again, and the doctor returned
gloomily to his chair. He bad shot his
bolt the moment he judged Its chance
to strike center was best, but tbe tar
get seemed unaware of tbe marks
man.
"I'm tryln' to make a big man oat o'
that poor truck yonder," Sheridan went
on, "and yon atep In, beggln' me to let
blm be Lord knowa what—l don't! I
aappoae 700 figure it out that now I
got a aon-ln-law, I mightn't need a eon!
Tea, I got a aon-ln-law now—a
spender!"
"Oh, pnt your hand backt" aald Onr
ney, wearily.
There waa a bronze Inkatand upon
the table. Sheridan pat bla right hand
In the allng, bat with bio left be awept
the lnkatand from the table and half
way across the room—a comet with a
destroying black tall. Mrs. Sheridan
shrieked and sprang toward It
"Let It lay!" he ahoated, fiercely.
"Let tt lay!" And, weeping, she
obeyed. "Tea, air," be went on. In a
Tolce the more omlnoaa for the andden
hush he pnt upon It "I got a spender
for a aon-ln-law! Ifa wonderful
where property goes, sometimes. There
waa ole man Tracy—you remembe*
(Jjm Poo—J. B. Tracy, solid bafiKf.
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1916
Be went Into the bank as messenger,
seventeen years old; he wns president
at forty-three, and he built that bank
with bis life for forty years more. Gilt
edge, that bank? It was diamond
edged? He used to eat a bag o' pea
nuts and an apple for lunch; but he
wasn't stingy—he was Just livln' In bis
business. He didn't care for pie or
automobiles—be bad his bank, it wns
an Institution, and It come pretty near
beln' the beatln' heart o', this town In
Its time. Well, used to
pass one o' these Sere turned-up-nose
and turned-up-pants cigarette boys on
tbe» streets. Never spoke to him,
Tracy didn't Speak to him? God!
he wouldn't 'a' coughed on him! He
wouldn't 'a' let him clean the cuspi
dors at the bank! Why, if he'd 'a' Just
seen him standln' in front the bank
he'd 'a' had him run «ff the street. And
yet all Tracy was doln' every day of
his life was workln' for that cigarette
boy! Tracy thought he was glvln'
his life and his life-blood and the
blood of bis brain for the bank, but
he wasn't. It was every bit—from
the time be went in at seventeen till
he died in harness at eighty-three—
it was every last lick of It Just
slavln' for a turned-up-nose, turned
up-pants cigarette boy. And Tracy
didn't even know his name! He died
not ever havln' heard It, though he
chased him off the front steps of bis
house once. The day after Tracy died
his old-maid daughter married the
cigarette—and there ain't any Tracy
bank any more! And now"—bis voice
rose again—"and now I got a cigarette
son-ln-Iaw!"
Qurney pointed to the flourishing
right hand without speaking, nnl Sheri
dan once more returned It to the sling.
"My son-in-law likes Florida this
winter," Sheridan went on. "That's
g«od, and my son-in-law better enjoy
It, because I don't thbik he'll be there
next winter. They got twelve thou
sand dollars to spend, and I hear It
can be done In Florida by rich sons-in
law. When Roscoe's woman got me to
spend that much on a porch for their
new house, Edith wouldn't give me a
minute's rest till I turned over the
same to her. And she's got It, besides
what X gave her to go east on. It'll
be gone long before this time next
year, and when she comes home and
leaves the cigarette behind—for good—
she'll get some more. My name ain't
Tracy, and there ain't goln' to *e any
Trflcy business In the Sheridan family.
And there ain't goin' to be any college
foundln' and endowln' and trusteeln',
nor God-knows-what to keep my prop
erty alive when I'm gone! Edltb'li
be back, and she'll get a girl's share
when Bhe's through with that cigarette,
but—"
"By the way," Interposed Garney,
"didn't Mrs. Sheridan tell me that
Bibbs warned you Edith would marry
Lamhorn In New York?"
Sheridan went completely to piece#:
He swore, while his wife screamed
and stopped her ears. And 'as he
swore he pounded the table with hi*
wounded hand, and when the doctor,
after storming at him Ineffectively,
sprang to catch and protect that hand,
Sheridan wrenched it away, tearing
the bandage. He hammered the table
ffil It leaped.
* "Fool!" he panted, choking. "If be'*
shown gumption enough to guess right
the first time In his life. It's enough
for me to begin learnln' blm on!" And,
struggling with the doctor, be leaned
toward Bibbs, thrusting forward bis
convulsed face, which was deathly
pale. "My name ain't Tracy, 1 tell
you!" he screameo. hoarsely. "You
give In, yon stubborn fool! I've had
my way with you before, and I'll have
my way with you now!"
Blbbt' face was as white as bis fa
ther's. "No. You can't have your
way," b« said. And then, obeying a
significant motion of Gurney's head, he
went out quickly, leaving them strug
gling. >.'
CHAPTER XXVII.
Mrs. Sheridan, In a wrapper, noise
lessly opened the door of ber husband's
room at daybreak the neit morning,
and peered within the darkened cham
ber. At the "old" bouse they had
shared a room, but the architect had
chosen to separate them at the new,
and they had not known bow to formu
late an objection, although to both of
them something seemed vaguely repre
hensible In the new arrangement
Sheridan did not stir, and she waa
withdrawing her bead from tho aper
ture when be spoke.
"Oh, I'm awake! Come In, If you
want to, and shut the door."
She came and sat by the bed. "I
woke up thlnkln' about it," she ex
plained. "And the more I thought
about It the surer I got I must be
right, and I knew you'd be tormcntln'
yourself If you was awake, so—well,
you got plenty other troubles, but I'm
just sure you ain't goln' to have the
worry with Bibb* It looks like."
"Ton bet I ain't!" he grunted.
"Look how biddable he was aboat
goin' back to the works," she con
tinued. "He's a right good-hearted boy,
really, and sometime* I honestly bare
to say he seems right smart, too. Now
and then he'll say something sounds
right bright 'Coarse, most always It
doesn't, and a good deal of the time,
when be aays things, why, I bare to
feel glad We haven't got company, be
cause they'd think be didn't have any
gumption at all. Tat, look at the way
lie did when Jim —when Jim got hurt.
He took right bold o' things. And Doc
tor Gurney says he's got brains, and
yon can't deny but what the doctor's
right considerable of a man. ne acts
sleepy, but that's only because he's got
such a large practice—he's a pretty
wide-awake kind of a man some ways.
Well, what he says last night about
Bibbs—that's what I got to thlnkln'
about Yot beard him, papa; he says.
JBlbbs 'U be a bigger business man
'than what Jim and Roscoe was put
together—if be ever wakes up,' be
says. Wasn't that exactly what be
says?"
"I suppose so," said Sheridan, with
out exhibiting any Interest "Gurney's
crazier 'n Bibbs, but if be wasn't—if
what be says was true—what of It?"
"Listen, papa. Just suppose Bibbs
took It into bis mind to get married.
Yon know where he goes all the
time—"
"Oh, Lord, yes!" Sheridan turned
over In the bed, his face to the wall,
leaving visible of himself only the
thick grizzle of bis hair. "You better
go back to sleep. He runs over there
—every minute she'll let blm, I sup
pose. Go back to bed. There's nothln'
in It"
"Why ain't there?" she urged. "I
know better—there Is, too! Yon wait
and see. There's Just one thing In the
world that'll wake the sleepiest young
man alive up—yes, and make him
Jump up—and I don't care wbo be la or
how sound asleep It looks like be Is.
That's when be takes it into his bead
to pick out some girl and settle down
and have a borne and children of bis
own. Then, I guess, he'll go out after
the money! You'll see. Now. I don't
say that Bibbs has got the Idea In' bis
head yet—'er else he wouldn't be
talkln' that fooj-talk about nine dol
lars a week beln' good enough for him
to live on. But Ifs comln', papa, and
he'll Jump for whatever you want to
band blm out. He will! And I can
tell you this much, too: he'll want all
the salary and stock he can get bold
of, and he'll bustle to keep gettin'
more. That girl's the kind that a
young husband Just goes crazy to give
things tol She's pretty and flne-lookin',
and things look nice on ber, and I
guess she'd like to have 'em about as
-well as the next And I giyms she
isn't gettin' many these days, either,
and she'll be pretty ready for the
change. I saw her with ber sleeves
rolled up at the kltcben window the
other day, and Jackson told me yester
day their cook left two weeks ago, and
"No. You Can't Have Your Way."
they haven't tried to hire another one.
He says her and her mother been doln"
the housework a good while, and now
they're doln' the cookln'. too. 'Course
Bibbs wouldn't know that unless sbe'a
told him, and I reckon sbe wouldn't;
she's kind o' stlfflsb-lookln' and Bibbs
Is too up In the clouds to notice sny
thlnk like that for himself. They've
never asked him to a meal In the
house, but he wouldn't notice that,
either—he's kind of Innocent Now I
was thlnkln' —yon know, I don't sup
pose we've bsrdly mentioned the ftrl'a
name at table since Jim went but It
seems to me maybe If—"
Sheridan flung out bis arms, uttering
• sound half groan, half yawn. "You're
barkln' up tbe wrong tree! Go on back
to bed, mamma T'
"Why am I?" ahe demanded, croasly.
'Why am I barkln' up the wrong tree?"
"Because you are. There's nothln'
In it"
"I'll bet you," she said, rising—Til
bet you he goes to church with her this
morning. What you want to bet?"
"Go back to bed," he commanded. "I
know what I'm talkln' about; thera**
nothln' in It I tell you."
Khe shook ber bead perplexedly.
"Then—do you know something about
it that you ain't told me?"
"Yes, I do," he grunted. "Now go
on. Msybe I can get a little sleep. I
ain't had any yet!"
"Well—" Khe went to the door, ber
expression downcast. "1 thought may
be —but—" Kbe coughed prefatorily.
"Oh, papa, something else I wanted to
tell you. I was talkln' to Hoscoe over
the phone last night when the tele
gram came, so I forgot to tell you, but
—well, Blbyl wants to come over this
afternoon. They expect to get off by
tbe end o' tbe week, and I reckon she
wants to feel she's done what she could
to kind o' make up. Anywoy, that's
what be said. But what I thought
was, no use beln' rough with her, popa
—I expect shc'iTwftrered a good deal—
and I don't think we'd ought to be, on
Itoscoe's account. You'll—you'll be
kind o' polite to her, won't you, papa?"
He mumbled something which was
smothered under the coverlet be had
pulled pver his bead.
"What?" she said, timidly. "I was
just sayln' I boped you'd treat 81byl
all right when she comes, this after
noon. You will, won't you, papa?"
He threw tbe coverlet off furiously.
"I presume so!" be roared.
She departed guiltily.
~ *
But If he bad accepted her proffered
wager that Bibbs would go to church
with Mary Vertrees that morning Mrs.
Sheridan would have lost They meant
to go to church. But it happened
that they were attentively preoccupied
in a conversation as they came to the
churcb; and they bad gone an incredi
ble number of blocks beyond It before
they discovered their error. However,
feeling that they might be embarrass
ingly late if they returned, they de
cided that a walk would make tbem
as good, it was a windless winter
morning, with an Inch of crisp snow
over the ground. So they walked, afid
for the most part they were silent, but
on their way home, after they had
turned back at noon, they began to be
talkative again.
"Mary," said Bibbs, after a time,
"am I a sleep-walker?"
She laughed a little, then looked
grave. "Does your father say you
are?"
"Yes—when he's In a mood to flatter
me. Other times, other names. He
has quite a list."
"You mustn't mind," she said, gently.
"He's been getting some pretty severe
shocks. What you've toltj me makes
me pretty sorry for him. Bibbs. I've
slways been sure he's very big."
"Yes. Big and—blind.- He's like a
Hercules without eyes and without any
consciousness except that of bis
strength and of Ills purpose to grow
stronger. Stronger for what? For
nothing."
"Are yon sure, Bibbs? It enn't be
for nothing; It must be stronger for
something, even thought he doesn't
know what It ts. Perhaps what he
and his kind nre struggling for Is some
thing so great they couldn't see it —
so great none oT us could see it."
"No, he's Just like some blind, un
conscious thing heaving under
ground—"
"Till he breaks through and leaps
out Into the daylight," she finished for
him, cheerily.
"Into the smoke," said Blbbs. "Look
ot the powder of coal-dust already dir
tying the decent snow, eveu though
It's Sunday. That's from the little
pigs; tho big ones aren't so bad, on
Sunday! There's a fleck of soot on
your cheek. Boine pig sent It out into
tho air; he might as well have thrown
It on you. It would have been braver,
for then he'd have taken Ills chance
of my whipping blm for It If I could."
"Is there soot on my cheek, Blbbs?
Is there?"
"I«-there? There are soot on your
cheek*. Mary—a fleck on each. One
landed since I mentioned the flrst."
She halted Immediately, giving him
her handkerchief, and he succeeded In
transferring most of the black from
her face to the cambric. They were
entirely matter-of-course about It
An elderly couple, It chanced, had
been walking behind Bibbs and Mary
for the last block or so, and paused
ahead during the removal of the soot
"There'." said the elderly wife. "You're
always wrong when you begin guess
ing about strangers. Those two young
people aren't honeymooners at all—
they've been married for years. A
blind man Auld see that."
wish I knew who threw that soot
on you," said Ulbbs, looking up at the
neighboring chimneys, as they went
cn. "They arrest children for throw
ing nnowballs at the street cars, but—"
"But they don't arrest street cars for
•baking all the pictures In the house*
crooked every time they (to by. Nor
for tho uproar they make. I wonder
what's the cost in nerves for the noise
of the city each year. Yes, we pay
the price for living In a 'growing
town,' whether we have money to pay
or none."
"Who Is it gets the pay?" »ald Bibbs.
"Not IT' she laughed.
"Nobody gets It. There Isn't aDy
pay; there's only money. And only
some of the men down town get much
of that. That'* what my father want*
me to get."
"Yea," ahe mild, smiling to him, and
podding. "And you don't want It, and
you don't need It."
"But you don't think I'm a sleep
walker, Mary?" lie had told her of bla
Tbey Were Entirely Mattsr-of Couree
About It
father's new plans for blm, though he
had not described the vigor and pic
turesquenens of their setting forth.
"You think I'm right?"
"A thousand times!" she cried.
"There sren't so many happy people In
this world, I think—and you say
you've found what makes you happy.
If It's a dream—keep It!**
"The thought of going down there
into tbe money shuffle—l bate It a* I
never bated the shop!" he said. "I
bate It! And the city Itself, the city
that tbe money shuffle has made —just
look at It! And tbe dirt and tbe ugli
ness and the rush and tbe noise aren't
the worst of It; It's what the dirt and
ugliness and rush and noise, mean—
that's tbe worst! Tbe outward things
afe insufferable, but they're only the
r '
expression of a spirit—a blind embryo
of a spirit, not yet a soul—oh. Just
greed! And this 'go ahead' nonsense!
Oughtn't It all to be a fellowship? I
shouldn't want to get ahead if I could
—l'd want to help the other fellow to
keep up with me."
"I read something the other day and
remembered it for you," said Mnry.
"It wns something Burne-Jones said of
a picture he was going to paint: 'ln
the first picture I shall make a man
walking In the street of n great city,
full of all kinds of bappy life: chil
dren, and lovers wnlklng, and Indies
leaning from windows all down great
lengths of street leading to the city
walls; and there the gates are wide
open, letting In a space of green fleld
and cornfield In harvest; ;and all round
his head a great rain of swirling nu
tumn leaves blowing from a little
walled graveyard."
"And If I painted," Bibbs returned.
"I'd paint a Indy wnlklng In the street
of n great city, full of all kinds of up
roarious and fntlle life—children being
taught only how to make money, and
lovers hurrying to get richer, and ladles
who'd given up trying to wn*h their
windows clean, and the gates of the
city wide open, letting In slums and
slaughter houses and freight yards,
and all round this lady's bead a great
rain of swirling soot—" He paused,
adding, thoughtfully: "And yet I be
lieve I'm glad that soot got on yotir
cheek. It was Just as If I were your
brother —tho wny you gave me your
handkerchief to rub It off for you.
Still. Edith never—"
"Didn't she?" sold Mory, as he
pan Bed again.
"No. And I—" He contented him
self with shaking bis head Instead of
offering more definite Information.
Then be realized that they were pass
ing the new house, and be sighed pro
foundly. "Mary, our walk's almost
over."
She looked as blank. "So It Is,
Blbbs."
They said no more until they came
to her gate. As they drlftod slowly Jo
a stop, the door of Itoscoe's ,bouse
opened, and Itoscoe came out with
Sibyl, who wns sturtllngly pale. She
seemed little enfeebled by ber illness,
however, walking rather quickly at her
husband's side and not taking bis arm.
The two crossed tho street without ap
pearing to see Mary and her compon
lon, and. entering the now house, were
lost to sight Mary gazed after them
gravely, but Blbbs, looking at Mary,
did not see them.
"Mary," he sold, "you seem very
•erlous. Is anything bothering you?"
"No, Bibbs," And sho gavo him a
bright, (|ulck look that made blm In
stantly unreasonably happy.
"1 know you want to go In—" be be
gan.
"No. I don't want to."
"I mustn't keep you standing here,
and I mustn't go In with you—but—l
Jiist wanted to say—l've seemed very
stupid to myself this morning, grum
bling aliout soot and all that—while
•II the time I—Mary, I think It's been
the very hupplest of all tho hours
you've given me. 1 do. And—l don't
know Just why—bufft'r seemed to me
that It was one I'd always remember.
And you," ho added, falterlngly, "you
look io—so beautiful today!"
"It must have been the soot on* my
cheek, Illbbs."
"Mary, will you tell me something?"
be asked.
"I tlilnk I will."
"It's something I've had a lot of
theories about, but none of them ever
Just (lis. You used to wear furs In the
fall, but now It's so much colder, you
don fr—you never wear them at all any
more. Why don't you?"
Her eyes fell for a moment, and she
grew red. Then she looked up gnyly.
"llibbs, If I tell you the answer will
you promise not to n»k any more ques
tions?"
"Yes. Why did you stop wearing
them?"
"Because I found I'd be warmer
without tliem!" Khe caught hi* hand
quickly In her own for an Instant,
laughed Into his eyes, and ran luto the
bouse.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
It Is tbe consoling attribute of un
used hooks that their decorative
warmth will so often make even «
rciidymnde library the actual "living
room" of a family to whom the shelved
volumes are Indeed sealed. Thus It
was with Kherldan, who read nothing
except newspapers, business letters
and figures; who looked upon honks an
he looked upon bric-a-brac or croejjet-
Ing—when ho was at home, and not
abed or eating, he was In the library.
He stood In the mony-eolored light
of the stained glass window at the far
end of tbe long room, when Boscoe and
bis wife came In. and be exhaled a
solemnity. Ills deference to the Kab
bath was manifest, ss always. In tbe
length of his coat and the closeness of
his Ssturday-nlKht share; and Ills ex
pression, to match this religious pomp,
was more than Habbatlcal, but the
most dlsrnsyliig of his demonstrations
was bis keeping bis bsndjii his sling.
Hlhyl advanced to the middle of the
room and halted there, not .looking at
blm, but down at her muff, In which. It
could tie seen, her hands were nervous
ly moving Hoscoe went to a chair 111
another part of the room. There was
a deadly silence.
But Klliyl found s shaky voice, after
an Interval of gulping, thougn she was
unable to lift her eyes, and the dark
ling lids continued to veil them. Khe
spoke hurriedly, like an uogtrted clill I
reciting something com mltted to mem
ory, but her sincerity was none the
less evident for that.
"Father Kherldan, you and mother
Kherldan have always been so kind to
me, and I would hate to have you think
1 don't appreciate it from the way I
acted. I've come to tell you I am
sorry for the way I did that night, and
to say I know as well as anybody the
way I behaved, and It will never'bap
pen again, because It's been a pretty
hard lesson; and when we come back,
some day, I hope you'll see that you've
got a daughter-in-law you never need
to be asbaiued of again. 1 want to ask
you to excuse me for the way I did,
and I can say I haven't any feelings
toward Edith now, but only wish ber
happiness and good In her new life. I
thank you for all your kindness to me,
MS "*
and I know I made a poor return for
It, but If yon can overlook the way I
behaved I know I would feel a good
(leal liapplcr—and I know Roscoe
would, too. I wish to promlso not to
be as foolish In the future, and the
same error would never occur again to
make us all so unhappy, If you can bo
charitable enough to excuse It this
time."
He looked steadily at her without
replying, and she stood before him,
never lifting her eyes; motionless,
save where the moving fur proved tho
agitation of her bands within the muff.
"All right," he said, at last.
She looked up then with vast relief,
though there was n revelation of heavy
tears when tjie eyelids lifted.
"Thank you," she said. "There's
something else—about something dif
ferent —! want to say to you, but I
want mother Sheridan to hear It, too."
"She's upstairs In hor room," said
Sheridan. "Koscoe—"
Blbyl Interrupted. She hnd Just seen
Bibbs pass through the hall and begin
to ascend the stairs; and Iti a flash she
Instinctively perceived the chance for
precisely the effect she wanted.
"No, let me go," she said. "I want
to spenk to hor a minute first, any
way."
And she went awny quickly, gaining
tl|e top of the stairs In time to see
ltibhs enter his room and close the
door. Sibyl knew that lilbbs, lu his
room, iftifl overheard her quarrel with
Edith In the hall outside; for bitter
Kdlth, thinking the more to shame her,
hnd subsequently Informed her of the
circumstance. Sibyl had Just remem
bered this, and with the recollection
there had flashed the thought—out of
her own experience—that people are
often much more deeply Impressed by
words they overhear than by words
directly addressed to them. Sibyl In
tended to make It Impossible for Dlbbs
not to overhear. She did not hesitate
—her hearttwns hot with tho old sore,
and slio beileved wholly In the Justice
of her cause and In the truth of what
she was going to say. Kate was vir
tuous at times; It had delivered Into
her hands the girl who lufd affronted
her.
Mrs. Sheridan was in her own room.
The approach of Sibyl and Koscoe had
driven ber from tile library, for she
hsl mls(*nlenlnte(l her husband's mood,
snd she fell that If he used his injured
hnnd ns n murk of emphasis sgaln In
her presence, she would (as she thought
of it) "hnve a at rl«lit there." She
heard Sibyl's step, and pretended to be
putting a touch to her hair before n
mirror.
"I wos Just coming down," she said,
as the door opened.
"Yes, he wants you to," snld Sibyl.
"It's all right, mother Hherldnn. lie's
forgiven me.''.
Mrs. Sheridan sniffed Instantly;
tears appeared. She kissed her duugh
ter-in-lnw's cheek; then, In silence, rt»
gnrded the mirror nfresh, wiped her
eyes, and applied powder.
"And 1 hope Kilith will be hnppy,"
Sibyl added, Inciting more application*
of Mrs. Sheridan's handkerchief snd
powder.
"Yes, yen," murmured the good wom
an. "Wo mustn't wake the worst of
things."
"Well, there wui something else I
bad to nay, and he wants you to hear
It, too," said Sibyl. "We better go
down, mother Sheridan." „
She led tlie way, Mrs. Sheridan fol
lowing obediently, but, when they
came to a spot close to Illbbs' door,
Sibyl stopped. "I want to tell you
about It Drat," she aald, abruptly. "II
lan't a secret, of course, In any way;
It's something the whole family has to
know, and the sooner the whole family
kuows It tho better. It's something II
wouldn't be right for us nil not to un
dersland, and of course father Sheri
dan moat of all. Hut I want to Just
kind of go over It first with you; It 'II
kind of help me to see I got It all
straight. I haven't grit any reason for
saying It except the good of the family,
and It's nothing to me, one way 4fth>'
other, of course, except for that f
oughtn't to've behaved the way I did
that night, and It deems to me If there's
anything I can do lo help tl»e family, 1
ought to, because it would help show I
felt the right way. Well, what I wanl
to do la to tell this so'* lo keep the
family from being made a fool of. I
don't want to see the family Just made
use of and twisted around her linger
by somebody that's got no more heart
than so much Ice, and Just as sure to
bring troubles In the long run ii*—as
Kdith's mistake Is. Well, then, tlds Is
the wa/ It Is. I'll Just tell you how it
looks to-me ami sec If It don't strike
you the same way."
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