The Concordia sentinel. (Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La.) 1882-current, 1920-09-04

hard up that MISS FerueeS slaiUeu
after Bibbs before they knew whether
he was insane or not" "She had TO
get him." "If he'd stop to think, he'o
know he wasn't the kind of man any
girl would be apt to fall in love with
Bibbs quickly burned papers ana
notebooks, descended and told his IA
Their: 'Pll take the job you offered
me-" and went straight to Mary Yer
trees and said: "Will you marry
me?"
Mary drew II all out of Bibbs; then
sank down kneeling, tears overwheim-
ing her. 81 can't make 1t plain" said
Bibbs, ST never dreamed / could DO
anything for you'll ! knew you never
thought Of me except generously-to
give"
1--WE were poor, and / think / did
mean to marry your brother. BUT
something stopped me from such
sacrilege. l posted the letter, but he
never got It."
"You kept me alive and I've hurt
you like this" said Bibbs. Gould you
forgive me, Mary?"
"Oh, a thousand times! But there's
| nothing to forgive and you mustn't
come to see me any more" she cried
in a passion Of tears. "Never, never,
neverp
He returned in time to tell his sis
ter-in-law in the presence Of the fam
lily: II proved what you said to me,
and disproved what you said of Miss
Vertrees. / asked her to marry me
and she refused"
Bibbs went with his father and sat
in the porch of the temple with the
money-changers; worked and talked
of nothing but work.
He delved into the ways Of the city
and fits political influence, and began
to buy Intertraction shares where the
I Vertrees' fortune had vanished.
Soon the Vertrees were able to pay
the butcher, hire a cook, and follow
the brokers' advice to keep the bal
ance Of their stock. Sheridan bOasted
that his plan for Bibbs was working
out all right. Still there was some
thing wrong and the doctor and Sheri-
dan agreed that it might be a good
thing If Miss Vertrees would permit
Bibbs to see her-sometimes
81 had to make Bibbs go my way"
Sheridan explained to Miss Vertrees,
''but there isn't anything in 1t to him.
He gave up everything he wanted and
took the job he never would just for
you. There's only one girl he could
feel that sorry lvr. Can't you let him
come backT
When Mary responded: 81 can't /!
He was only sorry for me-: the truth
was out. "Don't-don't-" she cried.
"You mustn't"
81 won't tell him. I won't tell any
body anything" said Sheridan.
i On a crowded downtown thorough
fare Mary saw Sheridan, at the risk
Of his life, spring before a moving
trolley car and with the whole force
of his big body shunt BIbbs from i'm
pending danger. The crowd had Shrek
ed warnings, but Bibbs had looked the
wrong way.
High up in the Sheridan building
! Bibbs sat down, shaking and sore. He
realized that his father held his own
. life of no account compared to that OF
his son. Bibbs perceived what he had
, never perceived before-the shadowins
Of something enormous, indomitable
lawless, irresistible and blindly noble
|, He looked out into the vast fOggJ
heart of the smoke.
| The roar Of the city beat upon Bibbs
ear until he began to distinguish pull
sation; the voice Of the god, Bigness
@Come and work for me, all men! b.
: your youth and your hope, ! summon
youl By your age and your despair
BY your love Of home and woman and
childrenl You shall be blind slaves
For reward you shall gaze only upoI
! my ugiiness."
Then. the voice came as some mu
!. sic struggling to be born Of the Tur
mol. att is man who makes me ugi,
: by his worship Of me. If man woul'
let me serve him should be beauti
full"
From the vague contortions Of smok
} and fog, Bibbs sculptured q giganti
: figure with feet pedestalled upon tn
great buildings and shoulders disaT
pearing in the clouds, a colossus Q
steel, wholly blackened with SCOT 81
thought up over the clouds unsee
a from below. the giant labored with hi
hands In the clean sunshine; and BIB
y imaged what he made there-perhap
J, for a fellowship Of the children Of th
; children that were children nova M
a BILE and joyous city. unbeIievably white
4 The telephone fiercely summone
" him. A startlingly beautiful voic
q caused him to tremble violently. "Ye
!: iBIbbs, was near the accident. The
4 said you hadn't been hurt, but wan
|. ed to know"
q "Mary-would you-would you hav
mindedT" There was a long pause an
= soft, 'sYes."
: "Then why, oh. why, won't you Il
!. me see your I've been like a ma
!. chained In a cave"
: sBut, Bibbs dear, You don't unde
. stand why"
" ~Mary," he called, even more trent
lous than before, "you can't mean
q was becnuse--you care. II you meal
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