The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-09-14

cided that n walk would make them
as good. IL was a windless winter
morning, with an inch OF crisp snow
over the ground. SO they walked. and
for the most part they were silent, but
on their way home, after they had
turned back at noon, they began TO be
talkatiye again.
MARY" said Bibbs, after q time,
'am l a sleep-walkerT
She laughed little, then looked
grave. Does your father say you
are?'
"Yes-when he's in mood to fatter
me. Other times, other names. He
has quite list"
"You mustn't mind" she said, gently.
Hes been getting some pretty severe
shocks. What you've told me makes
me pretty sorry for him, Bibbs. I've
always been sure he's very big"
Yes. Big and-blind. He's like a
Hercules without eyes and without any
consciousness except that OF his
strength and OF his purpose to grow
stronger. Stronger for what? Fol-
nothing"
"Are you sure. Blbbs' It can't be
for nothing; 1t must be stronger for
something, even though he doesn't
know what II is. Perhaps what he
and his kind are struggling for is some
thing so great they couldn't see it
so great none of us could see it,"
"No, he's just like some blind. un-
conscious thing beaving under.
ground"
IT'LL he breaks through and leaps
out into the daylight" she finished for
him, cheerily.
Into the smoke" said Bibbs. "Look
at the powder OF coaI-dust already dir
tying the decent snow, even though
it's Sunday. That's from the little
pigs; the big ones aren't so bad. on
Sunday! There's a fleck of SCOT on
your cheek. Some pig sent IL out into
the air; he might as well have thrown
1t on you. 1t would have been braver.
for then he'd have taken his chance
of my whipping him for 1t II could.
as there SCOT on my cheek, Bibbs 7
Is there"
''Is there1 There are SCOT on your
cheeks, Mary-a fieck on each. One
landed since l mentioned the first"
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 1t.
An elderly couple, II chanced, had
been walking behind Blbbs and Mary
for the last block or so, and passed
ahead during the removal of the SCOT
"Therev' 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 could see that"
IL wish I knew who threw that soot
on you," said Bibbs, looking up at tn,
neighborlng chimneys, as they wen
on. "They arrest children for throw
ing snowballs at the street cars, but
But they don't arrest street cars FOL
shaking all the pictures In the houses
crooked every time they go by. Nol
for the uproar they make. wonder
what's the cost In nerves for the nols'
of the city each year. Yes, we pay
the price for living in growing
town whether we have money to pay
or none"
"Who is 1t gets the pay?" said Bibbs
"Not r. she laughed.
Nobody gets 1t. There isn't an!
pay; there's only money. And onl!
some of the men down town get mucl
of that. That's what my father want
me to get"
= YES" she said, smiling to him, ant
nodding. And you don't want it. AM
r you don't need It,"
But you don't think I'm sleep
I walker, MaryT He had told her OF hl
fathers new plans for him, though h
had not described the vigor and pic
turesqueness of their setting forth
"You think I'm right?"
"A thousand timesw she cried
"There aren't so many happy people i
this world, / think-and you sa
you've found what makes you happy
u If it's a dream-keep it!'
= "The thought of going down there
into the money shuffie-I hate It as
$ never hated the shopw he said. e
d hate I'll And the city itself, the cit
that the money shuttle has made-Jus
$ look at It! And the dirt and the ugl
! ness and the rush and the noise aren
: the worst of It; It's what the dirt an
ugliness and rush and noise mean
,. that's the worst! The outward thing
are lnsufferable, but they're only III
expression OF splrit-a blind embry
d Of a spirit, not yet soul-oh, jul
h greedl And this 'go- ahead nonsens'
=. Oughtn't 1t all to be a fellowshipf
It shouldn't want to get ahead II | coul
d I'D want TO help the other fellow
d keep up with me-"
e IT read something the other day an
l. remembered 1t for you," said Mar
e 'Tt was something Burne-Jones said (
r, Picture he was going to paint: 4
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