The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-09-03


ing her. Il can't make h plain" said
nibos, Il never dreamed I could do
anything for you, I knew you never
thought Of me except generously-to
give"
We were poor. and think I did
mean to marry your brother. But
something stopped me from such q
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, MaryY
''Oh, 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,
neverw
He returned in time to tell his sis.
ter-in-law In the presence of the fam.
lily: Il proved what you said TO me.
and disproved what you said of Miss
Vertrees. l 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 its political influence, and began
70 buy Intertraction shares where the
'ertrees' fortune had vanished.
soon the Vertrees We're able to nav
the butcher, hire cook. and follow
the brokers' advice to keep the bal
ance OF their stock. Sheridan boosted
that his plan for Bibbs was working
out all right. Still there was some.
thing wrong and the doctor and Sheri.
Dan agreed that 1t might be a good
thing II Miss Vertrees would permit
BiDbs to see her-sometimes.
Il had to make Bibbs 20 NV wav"
sheridan explained to Miss verttees.
out 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 for. Can't you let him
come back?"
When Mary responded: 81 can'tl
DE was only sorry for me-: the truth
was out. "Don't-don't--" she cried.
"You mustn't"
II won't tell him. I won't tell anv.
body anything" said Sheridan.
On a crowded downtown thorough.
fare Mary saw Sheridan, at the risk
Of his life, spring before 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.
Blbbs 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 shadowing
Of something enormous, indomitable,
lawless, irresistible and blindly noble
He looked out into the vast foggy
heart Of the smoke.
The roar Of the city beat upon Bibbs'
ear until he began to distinguish a pul.
sation; the voice Of the god, Bigness.
Come and work for me, all men! BY
your youth and your hope. summon
you! BY your age and your despair!
BY your love Of home and woman an6
children! You shall be blind slaves.
For reward you shall gaze only upon
my ugliness."
Then, the voice came as some mu-
sic struggling to be born of the Tur.
mol. ut is man who makes me ugly
by his worship Of me. If man would
let me serve him I should be beauti-
full"
From the vague contortions Of smoke
and fog, Bibbs sculptured gigantic
figure with feet pedestalled upon the
great buildings and shoulders disap-
pearing In the clouds, colossus of
steel, wholly blackened with SCOT. He
thought up over the clouds unseen
from below the giant labored with his
hands In the clean sunshine; and Bibbs
imaged what he made there-perhau
for fellowship Of the children of the
children that were children nova no
BILE and joyous city, unbelievably white.
The telephone fiercely summoned
him. A startlingly beautiful voice
caused him to trenble violently. Eyes,
Bibbs, I was near the accident. They
said you hadn't been hurt, but I want
ed to know"
"Mary-would you-would you have
minded?" There was long pause and
soft, EYES,"
'Then why, oh. why, won't you let
me see your I've been like q man
chained In a cave"
2But, Bibbs dear, you don't under.
stand why"
"'Mary." he called, even more tremu.
lous than before, "you can't mean It
was because-you care. II you meant
that you would let me see you,
wouldn't your"
And now the voice was so lou he
couldn't be sure 1t spoke at all. and
If 1t did, the words were. Eyes, Bibbs
dear"
But the voice was not in the instru.