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GRAHAM CHURCH DIRECTORY.
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Baptist—N. Main dl.-Jaa. W.
Rose, Pastor.
Preaching aervicea every first
Mid Third Sundays at ILuU a. m.
and 7.30 p, m.
Sunday School every Sunday ai
8.44 a. m.—C. B. Irwin, Superin
tendent. ,-
.Graham Christian Church—N. Main
Street—Kev. j. F. Truit'..
Preaching aervicea every Sec
end 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 Church
—North Main Street, near Depot
lie v. J. O. Truitt, Pastor. Preach
ing every Second and Fourth Sun
day nights 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 7.4&.
o'clock.
Friends—North of Graham Pub
lic 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 ' t
Methodist Episcopal, south—cur.
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
0.45 a, m.—W. B. Green, Supt.
M. P. Church—N, Main Street,
Rev. 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. Amick, Supt.
Presbyterian—Wat Elm Street—
Rev. T. M. McConnell, pastor.
Sunday School every Sunday at
9.46 a. m.—Lynn B. Williamson, Su
perintendent.
Presbyterian (Travora Chapel)—
J. W. Clegg, pastor.
Preaching every Second and
Fourth Sunday* 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.
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SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER I—Sheridan's attempt to
"•J" » business man of hla son Bibbs by
starting him in tha machine shop ends In
Bibbs going to a sanitarium, a nervous
wreck.
CHAPTER n-On his return Bibbs la
met at the station iv b» alater Edith.
CHAPTER III—He finds himself an in
considerable ind unconsidered figure in
the "New House" of the Bherldans. He
sees Mary Vertrees looking at him from
a summer house next door.
CHAFfER IV—Thv VertrfyJSei, old town
family and Impoverished, call on"*the
Bherldans, newly-rich, and afterward Ala
cuss them. Mary puts Into words her
parents' unspoken wish that she marry
one of the Sheridan boys.
CHAPTER V—At the Sheridan house
warmlng banquet Sheridan apreads him
self. Mary frankly encourages Jim Sheri
dan s attention, and Bibbs hears ha la to
be sent back to the machine ahop.
CHAPTER Vl—Mary tells her mother
about the banquet ana shocks her moth
er by talking of Jim as a matrimonial
possibility.
CHAPTER VH-Jlm tells Mary Bibbs
Is not a lunaUc—"Just queer." He pro
poses to Mary, who half accepts him.
. CHAPTER Vin—Sheridan tell* Bibb*
ha muit co back to tha machine ahop aa
aoon aa he la atronc enough, In aplta of
Blbba' plea to be allowed to writ*.
CHAPTER DC—Edith and Sibyl, Roacoe
Sheridan's wife, quarrel over Bobby Lam
horn; Sybil goea to Mary (or help to keep
Lamhorn from marrying Edith, and Mary
leave* her In tha room alone.
CHAPTER X—Bibbs has to break to
his father tha news of Jim's suddan death.
CHAPTER Xl—All the rest of tha fam
ily helpleaa In thalr grief. Bibbs becomes
temporary maater of the houae. At tha
funeral ha meets Mary and rldea boms
with her.
CHAPTER Xn— Mrs. Sheridan plead*
with Blbba to return to the machine shop
lor his father's sake, and ha consent*.
CHAPTER Xlll—Bibbs purposely Inter
rupts a tete-a-tete between Edith and
Lamhorn. He tells Edith that ha over
heard Lamhorn making love to Koacoe's
wife.
CHAPTER XTV—Mutual love of mualo
arouaea an Intimate frlendahlp between
Blbba and Mary.
CHAPTER XV-Mary sells her piano to
help out the finances of the Vartraea fam
ily.
CHAPTER XVl—Rosooe and his wife
quarrel over Lamhorn.
CHAPTER XVll—Sheridan finds Ros
ooe in an Intoxicated condition during of
fice hours and takes him home.
CHAPTER XVin—Frlendahlp between
Bibbs and Mary ripens Into a mora Inti
mate relaUon, and under Mary'a Influ
ence Blbba decldea to return to the ma
chine shop.
CHAPTER XlX—Sheridan finds his son
Roacoe'a affairs in a muddled condition,
owing to'his Intemperate habits.
CHAPTER XX—Blbba, under the Inspi
ration of Mary's frianlshlp, makes good
in the machine 4hop. Sheridan Is Injured
while attempting to ahow the boy how
to do his work.
CHAPTER XXl—Sibyl. Insanely jealous
over Lamhorn's attentions to Edith,
makes a scene In the Sheridan home, and
Lamhorn is ordered out of the house by
Sheridan.
CHAPTER Xxn-Blbbs finds great
happiness In hla work, and his growing
love for Mary,
CHAPTER xxin— Edith leaves for
New York, ostensibly to visit a friend.
Roscoe tells bis father that be Is going
to quit the business and go away with bis
Wife.
CHAPTER XXlV—Sheridan announces
that be Is going to take Bibb* Into tb*
office with him and make a business man
of him.
Within the room, Bibbs, much an
noyed, tapped his ear with his pencil.
He wished they wouldn't stand talking
near bis door when he was trying to
write. He had just taken from bla
trunk the manuscript of a poem be
gun the preceding Sunday afternoon,
and he bad some Ideas be wanted to
fix upon paper before they maliciously
seized the first opportunity to vanish,
for they were but gossamer. Blbba
wa* pleased with the beginnings of his
poem, aud If he could carry It through
he meant to dare greatly with It—he
would venture It upon an editor. For
he had his plan of life now; his day
would be of manual labor and think
ing—be could think of bis friend and
he could think in cadences for poems,
to the crashing of the strong machines
—and If his father turned him out of
home and out qt the works, he would
Work elsewhere and live elsewhere. His
father bad the right, and It mattered
very little to Blbba—he faced the pros
pect of a working man's lodging bouse
without trepidation. He could find a
waahstand to writ* upon, be thought;
and every evening when h« left Uirj
be wonld write a little; and be would
write on bolldaya and on Sundays—on
Bnndayi in tbe afternoon. In a lodging
bou»e, at least, be wouldn't be inter'
rupted by bla alster-ln-law's choosing
the Immediate vicinity of bis door for
conversations evidently Important to
herself, but merely disturbing to blm.
He frowned plaintively, wishing be
conld think of one polite way of asking
her to go away. But, aa she went on,
be started violently dropping manu
script and pencil upon tbe floor.
"I don't know whether you beard It.
mother Sheridan," she said, "but this
old Vertices bouse, next door, has
been sold on foreclosure, and all they
got out of It was an agreement that
lets 'em live there • little longer. Boa
eoe told me, and be says he beard Mr.
Vertreea has been up and down the
streets more 'n two years, tryln' to get
a Job be could call a "position,' and
couldn't land It Tea beard anything
about It, mother Sberldan V
"Well, I did know they bean doin'
tbelr own housework a good while
back," said lira. Sheridan. "And now
they're doin' the cookln', too.
Sibyl sent forth a little titter with •
sharp edge. "1 hope they find some
thing to cook I She sold ber piano
»al|tjty (jglcfcjjfty Jim djedP % a
Bibbs Jumped up. He was trembling
from bead to foot and he was dizzy—
of all the real things he could never
have dreamed In hla dream the last
would have been what he heard now.
He felt that something Incredible was
happening, and that be was powerless
to stop It It seemed to him that heavy
blowa were falling upon bis bead and
upon Mary's; It seemed to him that he
and Mary were being struck and beat
en physically—and that something
hldeoua Impended. He wanted to
shout to Sibyl to be silent but be could
not; be could only stand, awallowlng
and trembling.
"What 1 think the whole family
ought to understand la Just this," said
Sibyl, sharply. "Those people were so
hard up that this Mlaa Vertreea start
ed after Bibb* before they knew
whether he waa Insane or not! They'd
got a notion ha might be, from hla be
ing in a sanitarium, and Mrs. Vertrees
aaked me If he waa insane, the very
first day Bibbs took the daughter out
anto riding!" She paused a moment,
looking at Mr*. Sheridan, but listening
Intently. There was no sound from
within the room.
"Nor exclaimed Mrs. Sheridan.
"Ifa the troth," Sibyl declared, loud
ly. "Oh, of conrae we were all craiy
about that girl at flrat We were pretty
green when we moved op here, and wo
thought (he'd get oa ID—but It didn't
take me long to read her! Her family
war* down and out when It came to
money—and they had to go after it,
one way or another, somehow 1 80 she
started for Boacoe; but' she found oat
pretty quick he waa married, and she
kerned right around to Jim—and the
landed him! There'a no doubt about
It; ahe had Jim, and If he'd lived you'd
had another daaghter-in-law before
thla, aa core aa I stand here telling you
the Qod'a truth about ltl Well —when
Jim was left In the cemetery she was
waiting out there to drive home with
Blbbal Jim wasn't cold—and she
didn't know whether Bibbs was Insane
or not, but he was the only one of the
rich Bheridan boys left She had to
get him."
The texture of what was the truth
made an even fabric with what was
not, in Sibyl's mind; she believed every
word that ahe uttered, and she spoke
with the rapidity and vehemence of
Berce conviction.
"What I feel about U Is," she said,
"It oughtn't to be allowed to go on.
It's too meant I like poor Bibbs, and
I don't want to see him made such a
fool of, and I don't want to see the
family made such a fool ofl I Ilk*
poor Bibbs, but If he'd only stop to
think a minute himself he'd have to
realise he lan't the kind of a man any
girl would be apt to fall In love with.
He's better looking lately, maybe, but
you know how be was —Just kind of a
long white rag In good clothes. And
girls like men with some go to 'em—
some sort of dashlngness, anyhow! No
body ever looked at poor Blbl>s be
fore, and nelther'd she—no, sir! not
till she'd tried both Roscoe and Jim.
Orstl It was 6nly when her and her
family got desperate that she*—"
Bibbs—whiter than when he come
from the sanitarium —opened the door.
He stepped across Its threshold and
stood looking at her. Both women
screamed.
"Oh, good, heavens!" cried Sibyl.
"Were you In there? Oh, I wouldn't—"
She seized Mrs. Sheridan's arm, pull
ing her toward the stairway. "Come
on, mother Sheridan!" slie urged, and
as the befuddled and confused lady
obeyed, Blbjtf left a trail of noisy ex
clamatlons: "Good gracious! Ob, I
wouldn't — Too bad! I didn't dream
be was there! I wouldn't hurt bis feel-
Ingil Not for the world! Of course
b* bad to know soma time! But, good
heavens—"
8b« heard his door close as she and
Mrs. Sheridan reached the top of the
stairs, and she glanced over her shoul
der quickly, but Bibbs was not follow
ing; be bad gone back Into his room.
"He —he looked—oh, terrible bad!"
stammered Mrs. Sheridan. "I—l
wish—''
"Still, it's a good deal better he
knows about It," said Sibyl. "I
shouldn't wonder It might turn out the
very bast thing could happened. Com*
on!"
And completing their descent to tbe
library, tbe two made tbelr appearance
to Roscoe and bis father. Sibyl at once
gave a full and truthful account of
what had taken place, repeating her
own remarks, and omitting only the
fact that It was through ber design
that Bibbs had overheard them.
"But as I told mother Sberldan,"
abe said, in conclualon, "It might turn
out for the very beat that be did bear—
Just that way. Don't yoa think so,
father Sberldan
He merely grunted In reply, and sat
rubbing the thick hair on tbe top of bis
bead with bla left hand and looktag at
tbe Are. He bad given no sign of be
ing Impressed In any manner by ber
exposure of Mary Vertrees' character;
but bis impssslvity did not dismay
Blbyl—lt was Bibbs whom she desired
to impress, and she was content In that
matter.
"I'm sure it waa all for the best," she
said. "It's over now, and be knows
whst she is. In one way 1 tblnk It was
lucky, because. Just bearing a thing
that way, a person can tell It'a so—
and be knows I haven't got any ax to
grind except bla own good and the
good of the family.'*
lira. Sheridan went nervously to tbe
door and stood there, looking toward
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, OCIOBEK 5, 1916
the stairway. "I wish—l wish 1 knew
what be was doln'," she said. "He did
look terrible bad. It was like some
thing bad been done to him that waa—
I don't know what I never saw any
body look like be did. He looked—so
queer. It was like you'd—" Bhe called
down the ball, "George!"
"Yes'mr
"Were you up In Mr. Bibbs' room
Just ndw?"
"Yes'm. He ring bell; tole me make
-I'll Tako the Offered Me."
him flab In hla grate. I done ball* him
nice flab. I reckon be aln' feelln' *o
well. Yea'm." He departed.
"What do jon expect he wanta a flre
for?" she asked, turning toward her
huaband. "The house la warm aa can
be. Ido wlah I—"
"Oh, quit frettinT' said Sheridan.
"Well, I—l kind o' wish yon hadn't
■aid anything, Sibyl. I know yon
meant it for the best and all, bnt I
don't believe It would been so much
harm if—"
"Mother Sheridan, yon don't mean
you want that kind of a girl In the
family? Why she—"
"I don't know, I don't know," the
troubled woman quavered. "If he liked
ber It seems kind of a pity to spoil It
He's so queer, and be basn't ever taken
much enjoyment And besides, I be
lieve the way It was, there was more
chance of him beln* willln' to do what
papa wants blm to. If abft wants to
marry him—"
Sheridan Interrupted ber with a hoot
ing laugb. "Bhe don't!" be said.
"You're barkln' np the wrong tree,
Sibyl. She ain't that kind of a girl."
"But father Sheridan, didn't she—"
He cut ber abort. "That's enough.
You may mean all right but you guess
wrong. So do you, mamma."
Sibyl cried out "Obt But Just look
how she ran after Jim —"
, "She did not" he said, cnrtly. "She
wouldn't take Jim. She turned blm
down cold."
"But that's Impossl—"
"It's not. I know sbe did."
Sibyl looked flatly Incredulous.* ■
"And yon needn't worry," he said,
turning to bis wife. "This won't have
any effect on your Idea, because there
wasn't any sense to It, anyhow. D'
you think she'd be very likely to take
Bibbs—after she wouldn't take Jim?
She's a good-hearted girl, and sho lets
Bibbs come to see ber, but If she'ever
given him one sign of encouragement
the way you women think, be wouldn't
of acted the stubborn fool ho has—he'd
'a' been at me long ago, bcgglu' me for
some kind of a Job bo could support a
wife on. There's notliln' In It—and
I've got the same old light with tilm on
my hands I've had all his life—and
the Lord know* what he won't do to
balk me! Whafs happened now 'II
probably only make blm twice as stub
born, but—"
'"Sbl" Mrs. Sheridan, ■till ID the
doorway, lifted her hand. "That's hla
itep—he's cotnln' downstairs." She
shrank away from the door as If she
feared to have Bibbs see her. "I—l
wonder—" she said, almost In a whis
per—"l wonder what he's goln'—to
do?"
Her timorousness bad lta effect upon
tbe others. Sheridan rose, frowning,
but remained standing beside his chair;
and Hoscoe moved toward Blbyl, who
stared uneasily at tbe open doorway.
They listened aa the slow steps de
scended- tbe stairs and came toward
the library.
Bibbs stepped upon the threshold,
and with sick and haggard eyes looked
slowly from one io the other until at
last bis gaze rested upon hla father.
Then be came and stood before blin.
"I'm sorry you've bad so much trou
ble with me." be said, gently. "You
won't, any more. I'll take tbe Job you
offered me."
Sheridan did not ipoak—he (tared,
astounded and Incredulotia; and Hlbba
had left the room before any of Ita oc
cupants uttered a Hound, though he
went a* slowly AS be came. Mrs. Sheri
dan was the first to move. 1 Khe went
nervously back to the doorway, and
then out Into the ball, filbbs bad gone
from the bouse.
Btbbs' mother bad a feeling about
htm then that abe had never known
before; It was Indefinite and vague,
but very poignant—something In ber
mourned for him uncornprebendlngly.
Bhe felt that an awful thing had been,
done to him, though she did not know
what It was. Bhe went up to bla room.
T6e Are Oeorga had built for him
was almost smothered under thick,
charred ashes of paper. The lid of his
trunk stood open, and the large upper
tray, which she remembered to bave
seen full of papers snd notebooks, was
empty. And somehow she understood
that Bibbs hsd given up the mysteri
ous vocation be had hoped to follow —
and that he had given It up for ever.
Bhe thought It waa the wisest thing be
could have done—and yet, for an un
known reason, abe aat upon the bed
and wept a little before abe went down
stair*.
*" £• "■ '
So Sheridan had his way with Bibbs,
all through.
CHAPTER XXIX.
As Bibbs came out of tbe new boase,
a Sunday trio was In course of psssage
upon the sidewalk: An ample young
woman, placid of face; a black-clad,
thin young man, whose expression was
one of habitual anxiety, habitual wari
ness and habitual eagerness. He pro
pelled a perambulator containing the
third—and all three were newly
cleaned, Sundayfled, and made flt to
dine with the wife's relatives.
"How'd you like for me to be that
young fella, mamma?" the husband
whispered. "He's one of the sons, and
there ain't but two left now."
The wife stared curiously at Blbba.
"Well, I don't know," she returned.
"He looks to me like he bad bis own
troubles."
"1 expect he has, like anybody else,"
said the young husband, "but I guess
we could stnud a good deal If we bad
his money."
"Well, maybe, If you keep on tbe
way you been, baby 'II be as well fixed
as the Sberidans. You can't tell." She
glanced back at Bibbs, who had turned
north. "He walks kind of slow and
stooped over, like."
"So much money in his pockets It
makes blm sag, I guess," said the
young husband, with bitter admira
tion. .
Mary, happening to glance from a
window, saw Bibbs earning, and she
started, clasping ber bands together
In a sudden alarm. She met him at
the door.
"• "Bibbs!" she cried. "What Is the
matter? I saw something was terribly
wrong when I— You look—" She
paused, and he came In, not lifting bis
eyes to bers. Always when be crossed
that threshold be had come with his
bead up and his wistful gaze seeking
hers. "Ah, poor boy I" she said, with a
gesture of understanding and pity, "I
know what It is!"
He followed her Into the room where
they n I ways sat, and sank loto a chair.
"You needn't tell me," she said.
"They've made you give up. Your fa
ther's won —you're going to go what
be wants. You've given up."
Still without looking at her, he in
clined bis head In affirmation.
She gave a little cry of compassion,
and came and sat near him. "Bibbs,"
she said, "I can be glad of one thing,
though it's selfish. I can be glad yod
came straight to me. It's more to me
than even It you'd come because you
were happy." She did not speak again
for a little while; then she said:
"Bibbs—dear —could you tell me about
It? Do you want to?"
Still be did not look up, but In a
voice, shaken and husky, he asked her
a question so grotesque that at first sho
thought she hud misunderstood his
words.
"Mary," be said, "could you marry
me?"
"What did yon sny, Bibbs?" sho
asked, quietly.
His tone and attltnde did not'change.
"Ttill you marry me?"
Both ber hands leaped to ber cheeks
—she grew red and then white. She
rose slowly and moved backward from
blm, staring at him, at first Incred
ulously, then with an Intense perplex
ity more and more luminous In her
wide eyes; it was like a spoken ques
tion. The room filled with strange
ness In the long silence—the two wero
so strange to each other. At last she
said:
"What made yon say that?"
He did not answer.
"Bibbs, look at me!" Her voice was
loud and clear. "What made you say
that? Look at me!"
He could not l>{ok at ber. and be
could not speak.
"What was It that made you?" she
said. "I want you to tell me."
Sho went closer to him, ber eyes
ever brighter and wider with that in
tensity of wonder. "You've given up
—to your father," she said, slowly,
"and then you come to ask me—" She
broke off. "Bibbs, do you wunt me to
niurry you?"
"Yes," ho said. Just audibly.
"No!" she cried. "You do not Then
what made you ask me? What is It
that's happened?"
"Nothing."
"Walt," she said. "Let mo think.
It's something that happened since our
walk tills morning—yes, since you left
me at noon. Something happened
that —" She stopped abruptly, with a
tremulous murmur of amazement and
dawning comprehension. She remem
bered that Sibyl bad goue to tho new
bouse.
Bibb* swallowed painfully and con
trived to «ay, "I do—l do want you to
—marry me, if—lf—you could."
Bbe looked at him, and alowly shook
her bead. "Bibbs, do you—'' Her
rolce was a* unsteady a* hla—little
more than a whisper. "Ho you think
I'gi—in love with your'
"No." be said.
Somewhere In the still air of the
room there was a whispered word; It
did not seem to come from Mary's
psrted lips, bat ha wss sware of It
"Whyt"
"I're bad nothing but dreams,"
Bibbs ssld, desolately, "hut they
weren't like this. Bib/1 said no girl
cotild care shoot me." He smiled
fslntly, though still be did not look at
Mary. "And when I first came home
Edith told me Blbyl was so anxious to
marry that she'd have married roe. She
meant It to express Sibyl's extremity,
you see. But I hardly needed either
of them to tell me. I badn't thought
of myself aa—well, not as particularly
captivating!"
Oddly enough, Mary's pallor changed
to an angry flush. "Those two!" she
exclaimed, sharply; and then, with
thoroughgoing contempt: "Lamhorn!
That's like them!" She turned away,
went to tbe bare little black mantel,
and stood leaning upon It. Presently
she ssked: "When did Mrs. Boecoe
Sheridan say that 'no girl' could care
about you 7"
"Today."
Mary drew a deep breath. "I think
I'm beginning to understand—a little."
She bit her Hp; there waa anger In
good truth In her eyes and In her rolce.
"Answer me once more," she said.
"Bibbs, do you know now why I
stopped wearing my furs?"
"Yea."
"Mary, Mary I" He Cried Helplessly.
"I thought BO! Your sister-in-law
told you, didn't she?"
"I— I beard her nay—"
"I think I know what happened,
nflw." Mary's breath came fast and
her voice shook, but she spoke rapidly.
"You 'beard her say' more than that
You 'heard ber say' that we were bit
terly poor, and on that account I tried
first to marry your brother—and
then—" But now she faltered, and It
was only after a convulsive effort that
she was able to go on. "And then—
that I tried to marry—you! You 'heard
her say' that —and you believe that I
don't care for you and that 'no girl'
could care for you—but you think I
am In such an 'extremity,' as Sibyl was
—that you— And so, not wanting me,
and believing thut I could not want
you—except for my 'extremity'—you
took your father's offer and then came
to ask me—to marry you! What had I
shown you of myself that could make
you—"
Suddenly she sank dowo, kneeling,
with ber fuco buried in ber arms upon
the lap of a chair, tears overwhelming
ber.
"Mary, Mary!" he cried, helplessly.
"Oh no—you—you don't understand."
"I do, though!" she sobbed. "1 do!"
lie came and stood beside ber. "Yon
kill me!" be said. "I can't make it
plain. Krom the first of your loveli
ness to me, I was all self. It was al
ways you that gave and I that took. I
was the dependent—l did nothing but
lean on you. We always talked of me,
not of you. It was all about my Idiotic
distresses and trouble*. I thought of
you as a kind of wonderful being that
had no mortal or human suffering ex
cept by sympathy. You seemed to lean
down—out of a rosy cloud—to be kind
to me. I never dreamed 1 could do
anything for you! I never dreuined
you could need anything to lie done
for you by anybody. And today 1 beard
that—that you—"
"You beard that I needed to marry
—someone —anybody—with money,"
sbe sobbed. "And you thought we
wero so —so desperate—you believed
that I had—"
"No!" he sold, quickly. "I didn't be
lieve you'd done one kind thing for mo
—for that. No, no, not I knew you'd
never thought of me except generously
—to give. I said I couldn't make it
plain!" be cried, despairingly.
"Waitl" She lifted her head and ex
tended her hands to lilm unconscious
ly, like n child. "Help mo up, ItlbbjL"
Then,'when »he wm once more iijiofr
her feet, she wiped her eye* mid
mulled Upon him ruefully, and faintly,
hut reassuringly, I'« If to tell lilm, In
that way, that ahe knew ho hud not
meant to hurt her. And that auille of
hera, no lamentable hut ao fulthfully
friendly, tula ted hla own eyea, for Ida
•liamefncedness lowered them no more.
"Let me tell you what you want to
tell me." ahe wild. "You can't, bvcuuse
you can't put It Into worda—they are
too humiliating for me and you're too
gentle to nay them. Tell me, though,
lan't It true? Vou didn't believe that
I'd tried to make you fall In love with
me—"t
"Never! Never for an Imdant!"
"You didn't believe I'd tried to make
you want to marry mo—"
"No, no, noP'
"I believe It. Blbha. Yon thought
that 1 waa fond of you; you knew I
cared fur you—but you dldu't think I
might he—ln love with yon. But yon
thought that I might marry you with
out being In love with you because you
did believe I had tried to marry your
brother, and—."
"Mary, I only knew—for tbe first
time— that you—that you were—"
"Were desperately poor," she said.
"You can't even say that! Bibbs, it
waa true: I did try to make Jim want
to marry me. I did!" And she sank
down Into the chair, weeping bitterly
again. Bllibs was agonized.
"Mary," be groaned, "I didn't know
you could cry!"
"Listen," ahe said. "Llaten till 1 get
through—l want you to understand.
Wo were poor, and we weren't fitted to
be. We never had been, and we didn't
know what to do. We'd been almost
rich; there waa plenty, but my father
wanted to take advantage of tbe
growth of the town; be wanted to be
richer, but Instead—well. Just about
the time your father finished building
next door we found we hadn't any
thing. I'eople say that, sometime*,
meaning that they haven't anything In
comparison with other people of their
own kind, but we' ,really hadn't any
thing—we hadn't anything at all.
Bibbs! And we couldn't do anything.
Yoa might wonder why 1 dldu't 'try to
be a stenographer'—and I wonder my
self why, when a family loses its
money, people always say the daugh
ters 'ought to go and be stenographers.'
It's curious! —as If a wave of the hand
made you Into a stenographer. No, I'd
been raised to be either married com
fortably or a well-to-do old maid, if I
chose not t> ©arty. The poverty camp
rr
Bibbs had forgotten himself long
ago; bli heart broke for her. "Couldn't
you— Isn't there— Won't yon—" be
stammered. "Mary, I'm going with fa
ther. Isn't there sotne way yon could
use the money without—without—"
She gave a choked llttls laugh.
"You gave me something to live for,"
he said. "You kept me alive. I think—
and I've hurt you like this!"
"Not you—oh no!"
• ,r You could forgive me, Mary?"
"Oh, a thousand times!" Her right
band went out In a faltering gesture,
and Just touched his own for an In
stant "But there's nothing to for
give."
"And*you can't—yon can't—"
"Can't what, Bibbs?"
"You couldn't —"
"Marry you?" she said for him.
"Yes."
"No, no, no!" She sprang up, facing
him, and, without knowing what she
11(1, she net her hands upon his breast,
pushing hi in back from her a little. "1
can't, 1 can't! Don't you see?"
"Mary—"
"No, uo! And ypu must go now,
.Bibbs; I can't bear any more—
please—"
"Mary—"
"Never, never, never!" she cried, In
a passion of tenrs. "You mustn't con*?
any more. I can't sec you, dear) Never,
never,- never!"
Somehow, In bolpless,, stumbling obe
dience-to her beseeching gesture, he
got himself to the iloor and out of the
bouse.
H« Felt That Something Inevitable
Was Happening,
on slowly, Bllibs.liat at Inst It Was a'.l
there—and *1 didn't know how ts» be a
stenographer. I dldu't know
be anything except a well-to-do old
maid or somebody's wife—and.A
couldn't bo a well-to-do old maid.
Then, Bibbs, I did what I'd been raised
to know bow to do. I went out to bo
fascinating and be married. I did H
openly, at least, and with a kind of de
cent honesty. I told your brother I
bad meant to fascinate biro and that 1
was not In love with him, but I let blm
think that perhaps I meant to marry
him. I think I did mean to marry him.
I had never cared for anybody, and 1
thought It might l>e there really wasn't
anything more than a kind of excised
fondness. I can't !K> sure, but I think
that though I did mcun to marry blm
I never should have done*lt, because
that sort of a marriage Is—lt's sacri
lege—something would have stopped
inc. Roinetlilng did stop me; It wnj
your slster-ln-law, Hlbyl. Rlio meant
no harm—but she was horrible, and
she put what I was doing Into such
horrible words—and tbey wero the
truth—oh! I saw myself! Hhe was
proponing a mlserablo compact with
me—and I couldn't breathe the air of
the samo room with her, though I'd so
cheapened myself she had a right to
assume that 1 would, llut I couldn't!
I left her, and 1 wrote to your brother
—Just a quick scrawl. I told blm Just
what I'd done; I asked his pardon, and
I said I would not marry hint. I post
ed the letter, but be never got It. That
was the afternoon bo was killed. That's
all, llitihs. Now you know what 1 did
—and you know —me!" She pressed
her clenched hands tightly against her
eyes, leaning far forward, her head
bowed before him.
TO BR CONTINUED
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children
In Use For Over 30 Years
Sheriff's Notice lo Owner of Captured
Automobile to Come Forward
and Claim Same.
Notice is hereby givfru that the
undersigned, Sher IT A Alamance
county, on 2.'ird >lny of August, l!) 16,
seized a quantity of spirit nous liquors
and at the same time captured an
automobile used in conveying said
liquors, said automobile being de
scribed as follows : Ono • r »-paoßengei'
Ford automobile.
Pursuant to Chap. 197, See. 2,
Pub. IAWH, 11)1 a, tlus owner of said
automobile is hereby requested to
come forward and institute proper
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said automobile, otherwise same will
be advertised and Bold according to
law. This Sept. 23, 1910.
U. N. COOK, Shoriff.
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Mortgagee's Sale of Real ;
Estate.
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Hie lut day of Octuber, iWI4, by Alex Isley
«nid hi* wife, Maggie laley, to the Alamance j
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' 1-urj.ofio of h> curing the payment of a certain
n iu«l of even date therewith, due and pay
-1 nole October Ist, ltflfi, default having been
u.ade in the payment of Maid bond, tlie undcr-
Mz tied Alamance lufcurunco and ileal K«tato "
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MONDAY, OCT. Q, 1016.
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