The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-09-07

II he ever wakes upl The thcI..n nds
OF men at for the life you want him TO
lead aren't it to do much with the
life he ought to lead. Bllndly. he's
been fighting for the chance to lead
lt-he's obeying something that begs
to stay alive within him; and. bllndly,
he knows you'll crush II out You've
set your will to do It, Let me tell you
something mors, You're half mad with
consuming fury against the very
self OF the law-the law that took Jim
from you. The very self of the law
took Roscoe from you and gave Edith
the certainty OF beating you: and the
very self OF the law makes Bibbs deny
you tonight The law beats ron. Hut
you've set yourself against It. to bend
II to your own ends. TO WELD II aud
twist it"
The voice broke from sherldan's
heavlng chest In a shout. "Yesl And
by God. willv'
$50 Ajax defed the lightning" said
Gurney.
i've heard that dam'-fool story.
too" sheridan retorted. 6xedly. DE
fed the lightning did he. the Jackassl
II he'd been half man he'd "a got
away with II. We don't go shown or
defyin' the lightnlng--we hitch It up
and make II work for us like a black
steerv'
well. what about Blbbs?" said Cur
ney. "Will you be a really big man
now and"
"Gurney, you know a lot about big
ness" sheridan began to walk to and
fro again. and the doctor returned
gloomily to his chair. He had shot his
bolt the moment be judged Its chance
TO strike center was best. but the tar
get seemed unaware OF the marks
man.
I'm tryln' to make a big man out o.
that poor truck yonder." Sheridan went
on, land you step In. beggin me to let
him be Lord knows what don't! |
i suppose you figure II out that now I
| got a son-in-law, mlghtn't need sonl
| Yes. got son-in.aw nova
4 spenderr'
N "oh, put your hand back!" said Cur
\ ney, wearily.
II There was a bronze lnkstand 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
destroying black tail Mrs. Sheridan
shrleked and sprang toward It.
| LET II layw he shouted, fercely.
Let It layw And. weeping. she
j obeyed. "Yes, sir" he went on. In a
I voice the more ominous for the sudden
hush he put upon II. 81 got a spender
for a son-in-law! It's wonderful
! where property goes. sometimes. There
was ole man Tracy-you remembef
|, 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
to edge. that bank? II was diamond
r. edged? He used to eat bag o. pea.
nuts and an apple for lunch: but be
d wasn't stingy-he was Just livln' In bis
en- business. He didn't care for pie OF
IN automoblles-he had his bank. II was
ig an institution. and II come pretty neal
d. bein' the beatln' heart o. this town In
We Its time. Well. that ole man used "a
pass one o. these here turned-up- nose
ly and turned-up-ponts cigarette boys or
;" the streets. Never spoke TO him
n. Tracy didn't. Speak to hlml God
of he wouldn't "a coughed on hint III,
,y wouldn't "a let him clean the cuspi
dors at the bank! Why. II he'd "a Jus
ha seen him standin' I'm front the banI
90 he'd "a had him run OF the street. And
q, yet all Tracy was doln' every day o.
To his life was workin' for that cigarett,
od boy Tracy thought he was givin
cL his life and his llfe-blood and tn,
., blood of his brain for the bank, bu
an he wasn't. 1t was every bit--fron
80 the time he went In at seventeen I'll
40 he died In harness at eighty-three-
~ II was every last lick OF II Jus
or slavln' for n turned-up-nose. turned
40 up-pants cigarette boy. And Trac.
ov didn't even know bis name! He diet
~, not ever havin' heard II, though h
~, chased him of the front steps OF hi
-, house once. The day after Tracy die,
Va his old-maid daughter married tn
on cigarette-and there amt any Trac
i'm bank any more! And now"-hls volc
,at rose again-"and now got clgarett
-, son-ln-lawv'
,III Gurney pointed to the nouishin
40 right hand without speaking, and sheri
,ut dan once more returned II to the sling
Did "My sonin-law likes Florida thl
ial winter" Sheridan went on. THAT
his good, and my son-in-law better enjo
It, because don't think he'll be ther
3D. next winter. They got twelve thou
sand dollars to spend, and | hear
So. can be done In Florida by rich sons-ir
-. law. When Roscoe's woman got ME
o,o spend that much on a porch for thei
~. new house, Edith wouldn't give me
. minutes rest till turned over th
same to her. And she's got II. beside
what gave her to go east on. II
int be gone long before this time mex
III ~ ..yhn oha hAuna N