Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1924-11-14

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you before I'll listen to you
I'll stop you i"
| ooh, no, Gibbsy" she half-sobbed,
from the landing, seeing the threaten
| ing gesture. In the same instant the
old man CROPPED blindly for an ivory
scimitar that lay on the hall table,
beautiful thing supposedly book
knife, but measuring some two feet in
length. and very heavy.
Then suddenly it was all over 81
lence fell in the hall, and cutting
through it Ellen heard the gasp of a
maid. Torrens and some of the girls
| had come running in.
Gibbs, with an ugly sneering smile
on his lips, stumbled back, clearing
with his hand flowing skin-wound in
! his forehead His face, under the
trickling red, was CHASTITY. The old
man, steadying himself with one hand
on the table, stood painting and star
ing wildly at him.
by Cd, you ought to be killed
my mothers name fight like
thisr Gibbs spoke thickly, his breast
heaving. IF any other man had said
| that
You get out of my housel" the old
man answered, in a quivering whisper.
Get out of my house-do you hear?"
"I'll get out oflyour house," his son
answered bitterly. AS he strobe to-
ward the big closet the maids MUIR
INJURED and drew back from him. "I'll
4 nd %oly ,x,ifo or child
tomorrow" he said, surlily
"Gibbs, dearl" Ellen had run down
the stairs. and was clinging to his
arm. Gibbs, dear, it's your father!
Don't speak sol"
He took her hand from his arm, but
not roughly, and for a moment looked
at her vaguely. He had taken an
cap in his hand.
Gibbs, you'll come back !" she
begged urgently as he turned toward
the door, when you're cooler, Gibbs
You mustn't quarrel with your ia
ther-"
She saw that in the whirl of his pas
| sion he could not hear her, or could
not understand her. But at the door
he seemed suddenly to notice Torrens,
and he turned back
Here's your chauffeur" he said,
bitingly, to his father. "Why don't
you ask him where your wife was that
night? Why don't you ask him
whether she took a train for the city?
You remember the night Of the storm,
Torrens: where did you leave Mrs.
Josselyn that night?"
II took her to Mrs. Peppers house
in Great Neck, SIR the man said,
eager and uneasy. Before we laid the
car up, we went there, sir"
Gibbs gave one last look at his IA
Their, shrugged his shoulders, and was
gone. The noise of the slamming
I heavy door died away, and there was
silence. The maids stood grouped to-
gether at the dining room door, their
eyes terrified. Josselyn, Senior, was
still keeping one fine old hand on the
table for support, his eyes fixed I'M
seeingly upon spot on the floor few
feet away, his head hanging.
Ellen was the first to move. She
| gave the maids quick look that dis
missed them, and went 70 put her arm
about the old mans shoulders.
Come into the study" she COM
manded him, as if he had been Tom
my. She was trembling herself and
her heart was beating violently. This
burst of primitive fury, this rending
of all The careful structure of years,
had left her shaken and shocked
"Sp3iles and politeness and explana-
tions for years." thought Ellen, land
then suddenly-thlsl
The old man sank into chair by
the fire and leaned YEARLY back with
closed eyes. For while they were
silent: Ellen, watching her father-in,
law anxiously, saw that he was breath
ing more evenly, and gradually re-
| gaining his self-control.
Il struck him, Ellen struck him !"
i he said suddenly, resting his head in
I his hands, and his elbows ON his knees.
He looked old, and strangely broken
II saw 1t in that accursed paper" he
| WcArL Ol tlIdt l1tuuodJ ACppCA anu
his mother had gotten back yesterday
| from visiting the sister in Montreal.
And it all came over me in Hash /
thought he and Lillian had made the
lie up between them"
But you remember that Torrens,
that very morning in the studio, said
that he had just come in from Great
Neck" she said soothingly.
"rd forgotten it," he answered,
stricken.
II know how Gibbs feels about LII
iian," Ellen said gravely, in low
tone. But Gibbs wouldn't do that !
Oh, no, he wouldn'tl" she added, half
to herself. And as he gave her mis-
cradle look, everything that was sane
and motherly in her came to the sur
face Nov, let's nat worry about it, /"
she said, cheerfully "GibbS was too