Unsolicited Writings

That was the introduction of Sibyl Carter towhat was then Langholm society.
Sam followed her; but he went slowly; and she was no longer in theroom she had entered.
Ive asked the Beattys and Dr Fry to join us atluncheon.
Hewas, at the Flour Building, to give his name as Mr Walters who hadprivate business
with Mr Clark. What I cant remember is whether youwere present. Ive asked the
Beattys and Dr Fry to join us atluncheon.
How Sibyl took his refusal was hard to say.
I suppose so, said Dick without enthusiasm. Now Maud was exceedingly vital; she was
a woman who opened up in acrowd.
Dick is famous, ofcourse, for taking to the kid kind.
Soon his controlwas so overwhelming that no minor shareholder would have cared
tooppose him. They stepped over the sill, into the river-bed now floored withsnow.
Sibyl was slowly picking her way over the icy floor with her toescarefully pointed.
A young woman left much alone by herhusband transformed the manners and morals of
the town. He had come throughunscathed; but for days he had hung over an abyss. The
question was, Youll double the capacity, wont you?
The many responsibilitieswhich his fathers death had placed on his shoulders
absorbed him.
And Maud expressed the desire to join them. Six people to wait on a woman who had no
children andwhose husband was rarely at home!
Abruptly, without disguising his contempt, he turnedon his heels and walked off.
Thus his father forced him into thevery paths he himself had followed. The addition
in courseof construction numbered over a hundred units.
Thus had he imagined his father to have been disturbed . When your wire arrived, we
decided to take it here. Well, Sam said unsmilingly, Id never have thought it.