Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-08-10

shared room, but the architect had
chosen to separate them at the new,
and they had not known how 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 was
withdrawing her head from the aper-
ture when he spoke.
ooh, I'm awake! Come in. if you
want to, and shut the door,"
She came and sat by the bed. II
woke up thinkin' about it," she ex-
planned. "And the more l thought
right, and I knew you'd be tormentin'
yourself if you was awake, so-well,
you got plenty other troubles, but Pm
just sure you amt goin' to have the
worry with Bibbs it looks like"
'You bet 1 ain'tr' he grunted.
''Look how biddable he was about
goin' back to the works." she con-
tinued. Hes a right good-hearted boy,
really, and sometimes / honestly have
to say he seems right smart, too. Now
and then he'll say something sounds
right bright. Course, most always it
doesn't, and a good deal of the time,
when he says things, why, l have to
feel glad we haven't got company, be-
cause they'd think he didn't have any
gumption at all. Yet, look at the way
he did when Jim-when Jim got hurt.
He took right hold O. things. And Doc
tor Quincy says he's got brains, and
you can't deny but what the doctors
right considerable of a man. He acts
such a large practice-he's a pretty
wide-awake kind Of q man some ways.
WE'LL what he says last night about
Bibbs-that's what l got to thinkin'
about. You heard him, papa; he says,
'Bibbs III be a bigger business man
than what Jim and Roscoe was put
together-if he ever wakes up he
says. Wasn't that exactly what he
says?"
Il suppose So" said Sheridan, with
ouC uIy IlICICSC .
crazier N Bibbs, but if he wasn't-if
what he says was true-what of it?"
Listen, papa. Just suppose Bibbs
took it into his mind to get married.
You know where he goes all the
time"
ooh, Lord, yes.' Sheridan turned
over in the bed, his face to the wall,
leaving visible Of himself only the
thick grizzle Of his hair. you better
go back to sleep. He runs over there
every minute she'll let him, l sup
pose Go back to bed. There's nothin'
in it."
"Why amt there?" she urged. 81
know better-there is, too! You 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 / don't care who he is or
how sound asleep it looks like he is.
That's when he takes it into his head
to pick out some girl and settle down
and have a home and children Of his
own. Then, 1 guess, he'll go out after
the money! You'll see. Now, I don't
say that Bibbs has got the idea in his
head yet-'er else he wouldn't be
talkin' that fool-talk about nine dol
lars a week bein' good enough for him
to live on. But it's comm, papa, and
he'll jump for whatever you want to
hand him out. He will! And l can
tell you this much, too: he'll want all
the salary and stock he can get hold
of, and he'll hustle to keep gettin'
more. That girls the kind that a
young husband just goes crazy to give
things to! She's pretty and fine-lookin'
and things look nice on her, and l
guess she'd like to have 'em about as
we'll as the next. And ! guess she
isn't gettin' many these days, either,
and she'll be pretty ready for the
change l saw her with her sleeves
rolled up at the kitchen window the
other day, and Jackson told me yester-
day their cook left two weeks ago. and