The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-07-06
He Felt That Something Inevitable
Was Happening.

He Felt That Something Inevitable |
Was Happening.
and every evening when he left Mary |
he would write a little; and he would |
write on holidays and on Sundays-on
Sundays in the afternoon In a lodging
house, at least, he wouldn't be inter
ruI 81 by his sister-n-law's choosing
the immediate vicinity of his door for
conversations evidently important TO
herself, but merely disturbing to him
He frowned paintively, wishing he
could think of one polite way of asking
her to go away. But as she went on,
he started violently dropping manu-
script and pencil upon the floor.
81 don't know whether you heard it,
mother Sheridan" she said, "but this
old Vertrees house, next door, has
been sold on foreclosure, and all they
got out of it was an agreement that
lets 'em live there a little longer. Ros-
coe told me, and he says he heard Mr..
Vertrees has been up and down the
streets more n two years, tryin' to get
a job he could call position and
couldn't land it. You heard anything
about it, mother Sheridan?"
well, did know they been dom
their own housework a good while
back" said Mrs. Sheridan. And now
they're doin' the cookin' too.
Sibyl sent forth a little litter with
sharp edge. 81 hope they find some
thing to cook! She sold her piano
mighty quick after Jim diedP'
Ribbs jumped up. He was trembling
from head to foot and he was dizzy
of all the real things be could never
have dreamed in his dream the last
would have been what he heard now
He felt that something incredible was
happening, and that he was powerless
to stop it. 1t seemed to him that heavy
blows were falling upon his head and
upon Mary's; it seemed to him that he
and Mary were being struck and beat
en- physicaly-and that something
hideous impended He wanted to
shout to Sibyl to be silent, but he could
not; he could only stand swallowing
and trembling.
what | think the whole family
ought to understand is just this" said
Sibyl sharply Those people were so
hard up that this Miss Vertrees start
ed after Bibbs before they knew
whether he was insane or not! They'd
got a notion he might be, from his be-
ing in a sanitarium, and Mrs. Vertrees
asked me if he was insane, the very
first day Bibbs took the daughter out
auto ridingw She paused a moment
looking at Mrs. Sheridan, but listening
mtently. There was no sound from
within the room.
MOP exclaimed Mrs. Sheridan.
IT'S the TRUTH" Sibyl declared, loud
ly. "Oh, of course we were all crazy
about that girl at first. We were pretty
green when we moved up here, and we
thought she'd get us in-but it didn't
take me long to read herl Her family
were down and out when it came to
money-and they had to go after it,
one way or another, somehow So she
started for Roscoe; but she found out
pretty quick he was married, and she
urned right around to Jim-and she
landed himl There's no doubt about
[, she had Jim, and if he'd lived you'd
had another daughter-in-law before
his, as sure as | stand here telling you
the Gods truth about it, Well-when
lin was left in the cemetery she was
waiting out there to drive home with
I5ibbsl Jim wasn't cold-and she
lfdnft lxpovu xuhatbor Rihhe Voc incopa
)r not, but he was the only one of the
Itch Sheridan boys left. She had to
get him"
The texture of what was the truth
made an even fabric with what was
lot. in Sibyl's mind she believed every
word that she uttered, and she spoke
With the rapidity and vehemence of
ierce conviction.
What ! feel about 1t is" she said,
it oughtn't to be allowed to go on.
is too meant like poor Bibbs, and
don't want to see him made such
'ool Of, and | don't want to see the
family made such a fool of like
poor Bibbs, but If he'd only stop to
hink a minute himself he'd have to
.ealze he isn't the kind of a man any
girl would be apt to fall In love with.
He's better looking lately. maybe, but
Tou know how he was-just kind OF a
ong white rag in good clothes. And
girls like men with some go to EN-
some sort of dashingness anyhow No
body ever looked at Door Bihbs be-