The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-06-29

took Roscoe from you and gave Edltn
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 1t, to bend
it to your own ends, to WELD it and
twist it"
The voice broke from Sheridan's
heaving chest in a shout. Eyes! And
by God, willr'
$50 Ajax deied the lightning" said
Quincy.
1--WE heard that dam'-fool story,
too" Sheridan retorted, fxedly. De
fed the lightning did he, the jackass!
If he'd been half a man he'd "a got
away with it, We don't go shown' off
defyin' the lightning-we hitch it up
and make it work for us like black
steer!
well. what about Bibbs?" said Cur
ney. "Will you be a really big man
now and"
Quincy, you know a lot about big
nessw 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 its chance
to strike center was best. but the tar
get seemed unaware of the marks
man.
I'm tryin' to make q big man out o
that poor truck yonder," Sheridan went
on, "and you step in, beggin' me to let
him be Lord knows what dontl |
suppose you figure it out that now /
got son-in-law. mightn't need a SOM
Yes. got a son-in-law nova
spenderr'
"Oh, put your hand backv' 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 room-a comet with a
destroying black tail. Mrs. Sheridan
shrieked and sprang toward 1t.
Let it lay" he shouted, fiercely.
LET 1t layw And, weeping, she
Obeyed. Eyes. SIR" he went on. in a
voice the more ominous for the sudden
hush he put upon 1t. 81 got a spender
for a son-in-lawl 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. Gilt
edge, that bank7 1t was diamond
edged? He used to eat q bag O. pea
nuts and an apple for lunch; but he
wasn't stingy-he was just livin' in his
business. He didn't care for pie or
automoblles-he had his bank. 1t was
an institution, and it 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? Godl
he wouldn't "a coughed on himl He
wouldn't "a let him clean the cuspi-
doris at the bankl 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. 1t was every bit-from
the time he went in at seventeen till
he died in harness at eighty-three-
1t was every last lick of it just
slavin' for a turned-up-nose, turned
up-pants cigarette boy. And Tracy
didn't even know his nameI 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 old-maid daughter married the
cigarette-and there amt any Tracy
bank any morel And now''-his voice
rose again-'and now l got a cigarette
son-in-laww
Quincy pointed to the fiourishing
right hand without speaking, and Sheri-
dan once more returned it to the sling.
"My son-in-law likes Florida this
winter" Sheridan went on. "That's
good, and my son-in-law better enjoy
1t, because l don't think he'll be there
next winter They got twelve thou
sand dollars to spend, and l hear it
can be done in Florida by rich sons-in-
law. When ROscoes woman got me to
spend that much on a porch for their
new house. Edith wouldn't give me a
minutes rest till l turned over the
same to her. And she's got it, besides
what I gave her to go east on. It'll
be gone long before this time next
year. and when she comes home and
leaves the cigarette behind-for good
she'll get some more. My name ain't
Tracy, and there amt goin' to be any
Tracy business in the Sheridan family
And there amt goin' to be any college
foundin' and endOwin' and trusteein'
nor God-knows-what to keep my prop
erty alive when I'm gone! Edith
be back, and she'll get a girls share
, when she's through with that cigarette
but"
. by the way" interposed Quincy
. didn't Mrs Sheridan tell me tina