Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-04-25
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TURMOIL
A Novel By
BOOTH TARKINoroN
Author Il
= Monsieur Beaucaire, = s1he
Conquest Of Canaan, =
Penrod, !" etc.
CHAPTER XVII.

ID N - CHAPTER XVII.
At seven O'Clock on the last morn
Ing Of that month, Sheridan, passing
through the upper hall, found cou-
pie Of scribbled sheets Of note paper
lying on the floor. He recognized the
handwriting and put the sheets in his
coat pocket, intending to give them
to George or Jackson for return to the
owner. but he forgot and carried them
downtown with him. At noon he
found himself alone in his Office, and.
having a little leisure, remembered the
bits OF manuscript, took them out, and
glanced at them. Having satisfied
himself that Bibbs' scribblings were
only sample of the kind Of writing
his son preferred to the machine shop,
he decided, innocently enough, that he
would be justified in reading them.
II appears that lady will nod pleas
antly upon some windy generalization OF
companion. and win wear the most
agreeabls suppression Of accepting 1t. a.
the law. and them days afterward. when
the thing u Q mummy to its promulgator
--she will inquire out OF . clear sky:
.sWhy ala YOU say that the people down
town have nothing In life that q chicken
hasn't! What did you mean And she
may say in . manner that makes
sensible reply very dimcult-you will be
so full OF wonder that she remembered
20 seriously.
Yet what does the rooster lack? He
has food and shelter; he II warm In win
ter: his wives raise not one fine family
for him., but dozens. He has clear sky
over him; he breathes sweet air; he wnlks
in his April orchard under . roof Of now-
quickly. Il Midas cancer a better way?
The ROSTERS wives and children must die.
Are those Of Midas immortal? His life Is
shorter than the life of Midas, but Midas
life Il only q sixth ~ long as that OF the
Galapagos tortoise. 80
The rooster 10 q dependent; he depends
upon the farmer and the weather. Midas
Ii dependent: he depends upon the
farmer and the weather. The rooster
thinks only Of the moment; Midas pro-
vides for tomorrow. What does he pro-
vide for tomorrow Nothing that tho
rooster viii not have without providing.
The rooster and the prosperous worker:
they are born. they grub. they love; they
grub and love grubbing; they grub and
they die. Neither knows beauty: neither
knows knowledge. And after all. whom
Midas and the rooster dies. there ID one
thing Midas has had and rooster has; not.
Midas has had the excitement Of accumu-
lating what he has grubbed. and that has
been his life and his love and his god. He
cannot take that god with him when he
dies. wonder II the worthy gods are
those We can take with N. t''. :
Midas must teach all to be Is Midas:
the young must % raised in his religion
The manuscript ended there. and
Sheridan was not anxious for more. He
crumpled the sheets into a ball, depos-
iting It with vigor) M q swastebasket
beside him; then. rising, he consulted q
Cyclopedia Of Names, which book
agent had somehow sold to him years
before; q volume now first put to use
for the location Of Midas" Having
read the legend, Sheridan walked up
and down the spa cious Office, exhalng
the breath OF contempt. Dam foolT'
he mumhled. I'll d -,.9sii s. (.
He felt very lonely, and this was,
daily, his hardest hour. For long
time he and Jim had lunched together
habitually at small restaurant near
the Sheridan building, where they
spent twenty minutes in the consump-
tion OF food, and twenty In talk, with
cigars. But now Sheridan remained
alone in his ONCE; he had not gone out
to lunch since Jim's death, nor did he
have anything sent to him-he tasted
until evening. .s,s Ia. -.
SIT was the time he missed Jim per-
sonally the most-the voice and eyes
and handshake. all brisk and alert, all
businesslika. But Sheridan's sense Of
loss went far deeper. Jim was the one
who would have been surest to keep
the great property growing greater,
year by rear. Sheridan had fallen
asleep, eight after night, pictur1ng
what the growth would be under Jim.
He had believed that Jim was abso-
lutely certain to be one of the biggest
men in the country. Well, 1t was all
mp to Roscoe now!
That reminded him OF a question he
had in mind to ask Roscoe. It was q
anestion Sheridan considered Of no
present Importance. but his wife had
suggested Though vagueiy-and he
had meant to speak to Roscoe about It
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