Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-06-18
SYNOPSIS.


ends in Bibbs going to a sanitarium,
nervous wreck.
CHAPTER Ion his return Bibbs
Edith.
CHAPTER lI1-He finds himself
an inconsiderable and unconsidered
figure in the New House" of the Sher-
idans. He sees Mary Vertrees looking
at him from summer house next
door.
CHAPTER IV-The Vertreeses, old
town family and impoverished, call
on the Sheridans, newly-rich, and aft
erward discuss them. Mary puts into
words her parents unspoken wish
that she marry one of the Sheridan
boys.
CHAPTER Vat the Sheridan
hOuse-Warming banquet Sheridan
spreads himself. Mary frankly en-
Courages Jim Sheridan's attention.
and Bibbs hears he is to be sent back
to the machine shop.
CHAPTER Vl-Mary tells her
mother about the banquet and shocks
her mother by talking of Jim as a
matrimonial possibility.
CHAPTER Within tells = Mary
'Bibbs is not lunatic-"just queer"
He proposes to Mary, who half &C.
cepts him.
CHAPTER VIII-Sheridan tells
Bibbs he must go back to the machine
shop as soon as he is strong enough,
in spite of Bibbs' plea to be allowed
to write.
CHAPTER '1X-iEdith and Sibyl,
Roscoe Sherdan's wife, quarrel over
Bobby Lamhorn; Sybil goes to Mary
for help to keep Lamhorn from mar
rying Edith, and Mary leaves her in
the room alone. ..-s
CHAPTER X-Bibbs has to break
to his father the news of Jim's sudden
death.
CHAPTER Kali the rest of the
family helpless in their grief, Bibbs
becomes temporary master of the
house. At the funeral he meets Mary
ard rides home with her. ,s4
CHAPTER XII-Mrs. Sheridan
pleads with Bibbs to return to the
machine shop for his fathers sake,
and he consents. ......
CHAPTER XII-Bibbs purposely in.
terrupts a tete-a-tete between Edith
and Lamhorn. He tells Edith that he
overheard LamhOrn making love to
Roscoe's wife,
CHAPTER XlV-Mutual love of
music arOuses an intimate friendship
between Bibbs and Mary.
CHAPTER XV-Mary sells her
piano to help out the finances of the
Vertrees family.
CHAPTER XVI-Roscoe and his
wife quarrel over Lamhorn.
CHAPTER XVII Sheridan finds
Roscoe in an intoxicated condition
during Office hours and takes him
home.
CHAPTER XVIII-Friendship be-
tween Gibbs and Mary ripens into
more intimate relation, and under
Mary's influence Bibbs decides to re.
turn to the machine shop.
CHAPTER XIX-Sheridan finds his
son Roscoe's affairs in muddled con-
dition, owing to his Incorporate hab-
it's.
CHAPTEDXX-Bibbs under the in
SEPARATION of Mary's friendship, makes
good in the machine shop. Sheridan is
injured while attempting to show the
boy how to do his work.
CHAPTER XXI-Sibyl, insanely
jealous over Lamhorn's attentions to
Edith, makes a scene in the Sheridan
home, and Lamhorn is ordered out Of
the house by Sheridan.
81 can't stand any more" Sheridan
burst out. III it's come to Bibbs ad.
visin' me how to run this house l bet.
ter resign. Mamma, where's that mig
ger George? Maybe he's got some plan
how l better manage my family.
Bibbs, for Gods sake go and lay down!
Let her see him all she wants.! Oh.
Lord! Here's wisdom; here's"
"Bibbs," said Mrs. Sheridan, IF you
haven't got anything to do, you might
step over and take Siby's wraps
home-she left 'em in the hall. don't
think you seem to quiet your poor ia
Their very much just now"
"All right" And Bibbs bore siby's
wraps across the street and delivered
them to Roscoe, who met him at the
door. Bibbs said only, "Forgot these"
and, "Good night, Roscoe" cordially
and cheerfully, and returned to the
new house. His mother and father
were still talking in the library, but
with discretion he passed rapidly on
and upward to his own room, and there
he proceeded to write in his notebook.
There seems to be another curious thine
about love Gibbs wrote). Love Is DINO
while it lives and only opens Its eyes ana
becomes very wide awake when 1t dies.
Let it alone until then.
You cannot reason with love or with
any other passion. The wise will not wish
for love-nor for ambition. These are pas
sions and bring others in their train
hatreds and jealousies-all blind. Friend
ship and quiet heart for the wise.
What turbulence II love! 1t Is dam
gerous for blind thing to be turbulent;
there are precipices in life One would not
cros a mountain-pass with a thick cloth
over his eyes. Lovers do. Friendship
walks gently and with open eyes.
To walk to church with a friend! TO
sit beside her there! To rise when she
rises. and to touch with ones thumb and
fingers the other half Of the hymn book
hat size holds. What. lover. with his