"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.

She had to get him." The texture of what was the truth made an even fabric with what was not, in Sibyl's mind; she believed every word that she uttered, and she spoke with the rapidity and vehemence of fierce conviction.
"What I feel about it is," she said, "it oughtn't to be allowed to go on.