The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1916-08-31

Sibyl was altogether taken aback.
do you suppose it's true? Do you
suppose she wouldn't?"
HE didn't look exactly like a young
man that had just got things fixed up
fine with his girl" said Sheridan. Not
to me. he didn't"
But why would"
81 told you" he interrupted. angrily,
"she amt that kind of q girl! II you
got to have proof. well. I'll tell you and
get 1t over with, though I'd pretty near
just as soon not have to talk a whole
lot about my dead boys private at
fairs. She wrote to Jim she couldn't
take him. and it was a good, straight
letter. too. 1t came to Jim's office; he
never saw it. She wrote it the after
noon he was hurt"
II remember I saw her put a letter
In the mail box that afternoon" said
Roscoe. Don't you remember, Sibyl?
told you about i'll was waiting for
you while you were in there so long
talking to her mother. 1t was just be-
fore we saw that something was wrong
over here, and Edith came and called
me-"
Sibyl shook her head, but she re-
membered. And she was NOT cast down.
for. although some remnants Of per-
plexity were left in her eyes, they were
dimmed by ar increasing glow Of
triumph: and she departed-after some
further fragmentary discOurse-visibly
elated. After all, the guilty had not
been exalted; and she perceived vague
ly, but none the less surely, that her
injury had been copiously avenged. She
bestowed a contented glance upon the
old house with the cupola, as she ami
Roscoe crossed the street.
When they had gone, Mrs. Sheridan
INDUCED in ~reverie, but after a while
she said. uneasi!y, Papa, you think 1t
would be any use to tell Bibbs about
that letter."
Il don't know" he answered, walk-
ing moodily to the window. 81 been
thinkin' about it," He came to a de-
cision. II reckon / will" And he went
up to Bibbs' room.
we'll, you SOiu DdCh OH NHdL yOu
said?" he inquired, b~rusqueiy, as he
opened the door. You goin' to take
1t back and lay down on me againY"
NO" said Bibbs.
"WeIl, perhaps | didn't have any cal!
to accuse you Of that. l don't know
you said. exactly, though the Lord
knows you've laid down on me enough.
You certainly have!- Sheridan was
bafied. This was not what he wished
to say. but his words were unmanage-
able; he found himself unable to eoD-
troll them. and his querulous abuse
went on in spite Of him. 81 can't say
l expect much Of you-not from the
way you always been, up to now-un-
less you turn over a new leaf. and l
don't see any encouragement to think
you're goin' to do that! If you go down
there and show a spark O. real git-ap, /
reckon the whole office III fall in a
faint. But If you're ever goin' to
show any you better begin right at
the beginning and begin to show 1t to-
morrow"
"YeS-IIl try"
"You better. if it's in you!" Shert
dan was sheerly nonplused. He had
always been able to say whatever he
wished to say. but his tongue seemed
bewitehed. He had come to tell Bibbs
about Mary's letter. and to his own
angry establishment he found it i'm
possible to do anything except to scold
like a drudge-driver. you better
come down there with your mind made
up to hustle harder than the hardest
workin' man that's under you, or you'll
not get on very good with me. l tell
you! The way TO get ahead-and yon
better set 1t down in your books-the