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family from being made q fodi OF.
don't want to see the family just made
nse OF and twisted around her onger
by somebody that's got no more henrt
than so much Ice. and Just Ms sure TO
bring troubles In the long run as--as
Edith's mistake is. Well then. this IL
the way II Is. I'll just tell you how 1t
looks to me and see II 1t don't strike
you the same way"
Within the room. B!bbs. much nn-
noyed. tapped his ear with his pencil.
He wished they wouldn't stand talking
near his door when he was trying to
write. lie had just taken from his
trunk the manuscript Of poem be-
gun the preceding Sunday afternoon.
and he had some ideas he wanted to
nx upon paper before they mdliciously
seized the first opportunity to vanish.
for they were but gossamer. Bibbs
was pleased with the beginnings or his
poem, and II he could carry II through
he meant TO dare greatly with 1.-The
would venture II upon an editor. For
he had his plan of life now: his day
would be OF manual labor and think
iur-he could think OF his friend and
he could think in cndences for poems,
to the crashing OF the strong MACHINES
and II his father turned him out OF
home and out OF the works. he would
work elsewhere and live elsewhere His
father had the right. and II mattered
very little to Bibbs-hc faced the pros
pect OF n working nuns lodging house
without trepidation. He could find a
wnshstand to write upon. he thought;
and every evening when he left Mary
he would write n little: and he would
write on holidays and on Sundnys-on
Sundays In the afternoon. In lodging
house. at least. he wouldn't be Inter-
rupted by his sistcr-in.law's choosing
the Immediate vicinity Of his door for
Conversa tons evidently important to
herself, but merely disturbing to him.
He frowned plaIniively, 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 II.
mother Sheridan" she said. but this
old Ncrtrces house. next door, has
been sold on foreclosure. and all they
got out OF II was an agreement that
lets 'em i've there a little longer. Ros.
coe told me. and he says he heard MI
Vertrees has been up and down the
streets more n two years, tryin' to get
Job he could call position and
couldn't land II. You heard anything
about 1t. mother SheridanT'
"Well. | did know they been doin'
their own housework good while
back" said Mrs. Sheridan. And now
they're doin' the cookin'. too"
Sibyl sent forth a little litter with
sharp edge. Il hope they find some
thing to cook! She sold her plano
mighty quick after Jim died."
Bibbs jumped up. He was trembling
from head to foot aud he was dizzy
OF all the real things he 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 poweriess
to stop 1t. 1t seemed to him that heavy
blows were falling upon his head and
upon Mary's: II seemed to him that he
and Mary were being struck and beat
en- physicnlly-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" snid
Sibyl. sharply. Those people were 30
hard up that this Miss Vertrees start.
ed after Bibbs before they knew