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

And T tell you, you can shake this
thing off. All you need is little get.
up and little gumption. Men don't
90 away for years and then come back
into moving businesses like Ours-they
lose the strings. And II you could,
won't let you-if you lay down on me
now, | won't-and that's because II
you lay down you prove you amt the
man | thought you We're" He cleared
his throat and finished quietly: "Ros'
coe, will you take months vacation
and come back and 60 to it?"
NO. said Roscoe, listlessly. I'm
through" .-
"All right" said Sheridan. He picked
up the evening paper from table,
went to chair by the fire and sal
down, his back to his son. "Goodby.".
Roscoe rose, his head hanging, but.
there was dull relief in his eyesl
"Best I can do" he muttered, seeminG}
about to depart, yet lingering. II fg!
ure it out a good deal like this" hey
said. 81 didn't know my job was anyI
strain, and l managed all right, but
from what Gur-frOm what hear, ]
was just up to the limit Of my nerves
from overwOrk, and the-the trouble
at home was the extra strain that's
fixed me the way l am. tried to
brace, so l could stand the work and
the trouble too, on whisly-and thai
put the finish to me! I'm not hit
ting it as hard as was for while
and l reckon pretty soon if l can gel
to feeling little more energy, betteI
try to quit entirely-I don't know.
I'm all Inland the doctor says so.
thought l was running along fine up
to few months ago, but all the time
l was ready to bust. and didn't know
it. Now, then, don't want you tC
blame Sibyl. and if I were you J
wouldn't speak Of her as that WON
an because she's your daughter-in.
law and going.to stay that way. She
didn't do anything wicked. 1t was s
shock to me, and l don't deny it, tc
find what she had done-encouragin9
that fellow to hang around her after
he began trying to tiirt with her, and
losing her head over him the way she
did. ! don't deny it was shock anC
that it'll always be a hurt inside of me
I'll never get over. But it was my
fault: | didn't understand woman''
nature" Poor Roscoe spoke in thu
most profound and desolate earnest
"a woman Graves society, and gayety
and meeting attractive people, and
travelling. Well, / can't give her thu
other things, but l can give her ths
traveing-real travelling. not just go
ing to Atlantic City or New Orleans
the way she has, two, three times. 4
woman has to have something in he'
life besides business man. And that's
all was. I never understood till
heard her talking when she was 81
sick. and I believe If you'd heard he,
then you wouldn't speak so hard
heartedly about her; 1 believe yOL
might have forgiven her like have
That's all l never cared anything TO,
any girl but her in my life but [ was
so busy with business I put it ahead
of her. | never thought about her. ,
was so busy thinking business. Well
this is where it's brought us to-anG
now when you talk about business
to me feel the way you do when any
body talks about Quincy to you. The
word business makes me dizzy-f
makes be honestly sick at the stomach
7 believe if had to go downtown and
step inside that office door I'd fall
down on the floor, deathly sick. You
talk about months vacation'-and !
get just as sick. I'm rattled-I CAM
expain-I haven't got any plans-canj
make any. except to take my girl and
get just as far away from that office
as l can-and stay We're going II
Japan first, and if we"
ITO be COntinued)