He wanted to shout
to Sibyl to be silent, but he could not; he could only stand,
swallowing and trembling.
"What I think the whole family ought to understand is just this," said
Sibyl, sharply. "Those people were so hard up that this Miss Vertrees
started after Bibbs before they knew whether he was INSANE or not!
They'd got a notion he might be, from his being in a sanitarium, and
Mrs. Vertrees ASKED me if he was insane, the very first day Bibbs took
the daughter out auto-riding!" She paused a moment, looking at Mrs.
Sheridan, but listening intently. There was no sound from within the
room.
"No!" exclaimed Mrs. Sheridan.
"It's the truth," Sibyl declared, loudly. "Oh, of course we were all
crazy about that girl at first. We were pretty green when we moved up
here, and we thought she'd get us IN--but it didn't take ME long to
read her! Her family were down and out when it came to money--and
they had to go after it, one way or another, SOMEHOW! So she started
for Roscoe; but she found out pretty quick he was married, and she
turned right around to Jim--and she landed him! There's no doubt
about it, she had Jim, and if he'd lived you'd had another daughter-
in-law before this, as sure as I stand here telling you the God's
truth about it! Well--when Jim was left in the cemetery she was
waiting out there to drive home with Bibbs! Jim wasn't COLD--and she
didn't know whether Bibbs was insane or not, but he was the only one
of the rich Sheridan boys left.
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