Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-09-01

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will make him success in anything
if he ever wakes up! The thousands
/ of men fit for the life you want him TO
lead aren't fit to do much with the
! life he ought to lead. Blindly, he's
been fighting for the chance to lead
it-hes obeying something that begs
to stay alive within him; and, blindly,
he knows you'll crush it out You've
set your will to do it. Let me tell you
something more. You're half mad with
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 WELD it and
twist it"
The voice broke from Sheridan's
heaving chest in a shout. "Yesl And
by God, l willv'
so Ajax defied the lightning" said
Quincy.
Eve heard that dam'-fool story.
too" Sheridan retorted, fxedly. "sDe-
fed the lightning did he, the jackassI
If he'd been half a man he'd "a got
away with it. We don't go shown OF
defyin' the lightning-we hitch it up
and make it work for us like black
steerY'
well, what about BibbsY' said Cur
ney. "Will you be a really big man
now and"
"Gurney, you know a lot about big
ness!' Sheridan began to walk to and
fro again, and the doctor returned
gloomily to his chair. He had shot his
bolt the moment he judged it's chance
to strike center was best. but the tar
get seemed unaware of the marks
man.
''I'm tryin' to make big man out o.
that poor truck yonder," Sheridan went
on, ''and you step in, begin me to let
him be Lord knows what don't! I
suppose you figure it out that now /
got q son-in-law, mightn't need sOnl
Yes, got a son-in-law nova
spenderY'
"Oh, put your hand back!" said Cur
ney, YEARLY.
There was a bronze inkstand upon
the table, Sheridan put his right hand
in the sling, but with his left he swept
the inkstand from the table and half
way across the roon--a comet with q
destroying black tail. Mrs. Sheridan
shrieked and sprang toward it.
"Let it lay!' he shouted, fiercely.
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obeyed. Eyes, SIR he went on. in a
voice the more ominous for the sudden
hush he put upon it. II got sloender
for a son-in-law! It's wonderful
where property goes, sometimes. There
was ole man Tracy-you remember
him Doc. r. Tracy, solid banker.
He went into the bank as messenger,
seventeen years old; he was president
at forty three, and he built that bank
with his life for forty years more. Gin
, edge, that bank? 1t 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 Twin in his
business. He didn't care for pie or
autOmobiles-heh had his bank It was
an institution, and 1t come pretty near
bein' the beatin' heart o. this town in
. its time. Well, that ole man used to
pass one o. these here turned-up-nose
and turned-up-pants cigarette boys on
the 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
doris at the bank! Why, if he'd "a just
seen him standin' in front the bank
he'd "a had him run off the street. And
, yet all Tracy was dom every day OF
his life was workin' for that cigarette
boy! Tracy thought he was givin
his life and his life-blood and the
blood OF his brain for the bank, but
he wasn't It was every bit-from
the time he went in at seventeen till
he died in harness at eighty three
! it was every last lick of it just
slavin' for a turned-up-nos turned
up-pants cigarette boy. And Tracy
didn't even know his name! He died
not ever havin' heard it, though he
chased him off the front steps of his
house once The day after Tracy died
his ol6-maid daughter married the
cigarette and there amt any Tracy
bank any more! And now"-his voice
rose again-"and now got cigarette
son-in-law!'
Quincy pointed to the fourishing
right hand without speaking, and Sheri-
dan once more returned 1t to the sling.
"My son-in-law likes Florida this
winter" Sheridan went on. That's
good, and my son-in-laW better enjoy
it, because don't think he'll be there
next winter. They got twelve thou
sand dollars to spend, and hear II
can be done in Florida by rich sons-in-
law. When Roscoe's woman got me to
spend that much on a porch for theiT
new house, Edith wouldn't give me q
minutes rest till turned over the
same to her, And she's got it, besides
what l gave her to go east on. It'll