The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-11-07

YOU before III listen to youi 4.
I'll stop you 4"
"Oh, no, Gibbs" she ~haif-sobbed.
from the landing. seeing the threaten
ing gesture. In the same instant The
old man CROPPED blindly for an ivory
scimitar that lay IN the hall table. a
beautiful thing supposedly a book
knife, but measuring some tw" feet In
length. and very heavy.
Then suddenly 1t was all over. 81
lence fell in the hall. and cutting
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 a flowing skin-wounc 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 a fight like
this !" Gibbs spoke thickly, his breast
heaving. IF any other man had said
that :"
You get out of my house I" the old
man answered, In a quiverlng whisper.
Get out of my house-do you hear?"
"Tll get out of your house. :" his son
answered bitterly. AS he STROBE to-
ward the big closet the maids muir
INJURED and drew bach from him. 'T1l
get out and I'll take my wife and child
tomorrow - he said, surlily.
Gibbs, dear !" Ellen had run down
the stairs. and was clinging to his
arm. Gibbs, dear, it's your fatherl
Don't speak so !"
He took her hard from his arm, but
not roughly, and for a moment looked
at her vaguely. He had taken an
overcoat from the closet, and had his
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
nc tChAt CiQuCull ~ uOllNt 4OilClcf
and he turned back.
Here's your chauffeur" he said,
bitlngly, to his father. "Why don't
you ask him where your wife was that
night? Why don't you ask him
whether he left her in Great Neck, or
whether she DOL a train for the city?
You remember the night of the storm,
frnrranc u.hara df1 ran laoro NTrc
Josselyn that night?"
81 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 fa-
Their, shrugged his shoulders, and was
gone. The noise of the slamming
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 an
seeingly upon a spot on the floor a few
feet away, his head hanging.
Ellen was the first to move. She
saw thC hidihc d VuANh iOOh Nndt us
missed them, and went to put her arm
about the old mans shoulders.
rCome 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,
haH loft hor CboIyon onl c1~DDIAd /
Smiles and %politeness and explana-
tons for years." thought Ellen. land
then suddenly-tlils !"
The old man sank into a chair by
the fire and leaned YEARLY back with
closed eyes. For a while they were
silent: Ellen, watching her father-in-
anxiously, saw that he was breath
ing more evenly. and gradually re-
gaining his self-control.
Il struck him. Ellen struck him !"
he said suddenly, resting his head In
his hands. and his elbows on his knees.
looked old. and strangely broken
saw 1t in that accursed paper" he
went on. that Lindsay Pepper and
his mother had gotten back yesterday
visiting the sister In Montreal.
And il all came over me in a flash
thought he and Lillian had made the
lie up between them"
but you remember that Torrens.
that very morning in the studio, said
hat he had Just come in from Great
she said soofhingly.
I'D forgotten it, he answered.
II know how Gibbs feels about Lii
Ellen said gravely. in a low
one. 'But Gibbs wouldn't do that
Oh. no. he wouldn't !" she added. half
herself. And as he gave her a mis-
look. everything that was sane
md inotherly in her came to the sur
ace Now. LET'S not worry about it,"
he said. cheerfully. Gibbs was toe
ingry TO- he reasonable. but | begged
lin to come hack. and | know that ms
Don as he's worn on some Of his ten
ne will. Then YOU can explaiu