Yet, look at the way he did when Jim--when Jim got
hurt. He took right hold o' things. 'Course he'd been sick himself
so much and all--and the rest of us never had, much, and we were kind
o' green about what to do in that kind o' trouble--still, he did take
hold, and everything went off all right; you'll have to say that much,
papa. And Dr. Gurney says he's got brains, and you can't deny but
what the doctor's right considerable of a man. He acts sleepy, but
that's only because he's got such a large practice--he's a pretty
wide-awake kind of a man some ways. Well, what he says last night
about Bibbs himself bein' asleep, and how much he'd amount to if he
ever woke up--that's what I got to thinkin' about. You heard him,
papa; he says, 'Bibbs'll be a bigger business man than what Jim and
Roscoe was put together--if he ever wakes up,' he says. Wasn't that
exactly what he says?"
"I suppose so," said Sheridan, without exhibiting any interest.
"Gurney's crazier'n Bibbs, but if he wasn't--if what he says was
true--what of it?"
"Listen, papa. Just suppose Bibbs took it into his mind to get
married. You know where he goes all the time--"
"Oh, Lord, yes!" Sheridan turned over in the bed, his face to the
wall, leaving visible of himself only the thick grizzle of his hair.
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