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The Turmoil

CHAPTER XXVI
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There are thousands of men fit for the life you want him to lead--and so is he.

It wouldn't take half of Bibbs's brains to be twice as good a business man as Jim and Roscoe put together." "WHAT!" Sheridan goggled at him like a zany.
"Your son Bibbs," said the doctor, composedly, "Bibbs Sheridan has the kind and quantity of 'gray matter' that will make him a success in anything--if he ever wakes up! Personally I should prefer him to remain asleep.

I like him that way.

But the thousands of men fit for the life you want him to lead aren't fit to do much with the life he OUGHT to lead.

Blindly, he's been fighting for the chance to lead it--he's obeying something that begs to stay alive within him; and, blindly, he knows you'll crush it out.


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