Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-27

to neceSsitate looking back a little
towards the time of his marriage in
1904. but happens to find him in
| good light for observation. Encoun-
| tering him hereabouts, n who had
shared school days with him at his
preparatory school so much as
twenty-four years back would have
found matter for recognition.
A usefully garrulous person, n
Hapgood, a solicitor, found much.
whom do you think I met yes
terday? Old Sabre! You remember
old Sabre at old Wickamote's?
Yes, that's the chap. Used to call
him Puzzlehead, remember? Be-
| cause he used to screw up his fore
| head over things old Wickamote or
any of the other masters said and
| sort of drawl out, Well. l don't see
that, SIR . = = Yes. rather! ' y And
| then that other expression of his.
| Just the opposite. When old Wick
| amote or some one had landed him.,
or all of us. with some dashed pun
| ishment, and we were casing about
it. used to screw up his nut in the
! same way and say, We'll, what does
| he mean, you ass?' and he'd start
casing some rot till someone said,
Good lord, fancy sticking up for a
master! And old Puzzlhead would
say, You sickening fool, I'm not
sticking up for him. I'm only say
ing he's wrong = - Ha! Funny
DAYS = = = Yes, I met him
"Yes in his Office I saw him
He's in a good business down there
at T~idborough. Dashed good. FOR
tune East and Sabre never
heard of them? All, well, that shows
you're not u pillar of the Church,
To .,o, fAnE thn faintagt
interest in your particular place OF
worship. or in any Anglican place OF
worship, you'd know that whenever
YOU want anything for the Church
from q hymn book or a hassock or a
pew to a pulpit or a screen or a splre
Won go to Fortune, East n 81
marlborough. Similarly in h scho-
lastic line, anything from a plrch
rod to a desk-Fortune, East and
Sabre. by return and the best. NO
they're the great, the great. church
and school-furnishing people.
Married? Oh, yes, he's married
Has been some time, l belleVei
though they'veNn no kids. 1 had lunch
at his place one time 1 was down
Marlborough way Now there's 9
place you ought to sc to paint ONT
of your pictures-where he lives
Penny Green. Picturesque, duain'
if ever a place was
Eyes, you so down there nave
n look. with your sketch-book. Olo
Sabre'u love to see you = y His
wife? Oh, very nice. distinctls
nice. Pretty woman, very. some
how I didn't think quite the sort o
woman for old Puzzlehead. Didn'
appear to have the remotest interes'
in any of the things he was keei
about and he seemed a bit led VIII
her sort of talk. Hers was all gossip
all, about the people there and
what a rum crowd they were. Devii-
ish funny, I thought, some OK mel
stories. But old Sabre-well, l sup
pose he'd heard 'em before. stu
there was OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
about the two of them. You kno"
that sort of--sort of stiffish feeins
Won sometimes feel in the air with
two people who don't quite click
CHAPTER II
Thus. by easy means of the gar
rulous Hopgood, appear persons
Mace. institutions; lives, homes
Activities: the web and the tanglt
and the amenities of a minute frag'
ment of human existence. Lie. Al
odd business. Into life we come
mysteriously arrived are set on oul
feet and on we go: functioning NOR
or less ~ineffectively. passing through
p~ermutations and combinations
meeting the successive events
shocks. surprises of hours, days
wears: becoming engulfed, SUD
merged, foundered by them; all o.
us ON the same adventure yet retalii'
ing nevertheless each his own lndi'
yiduality as swimmers carrying eacn
his undetachable burden hroug
dark, enormous and cavernous seas
Mysterious journey. Unchartere.
unknown and flnally-but there Is ny
fnality! Mysterious ana stuiilne
seouel-not end--to the nfysterlCu
and tremendous adventure! Finally
of this portion, death, disappear
ance-gone, Astounding develop,
ment, Odd affair! Mysterious ant
battling conundrum to be mixed III
in! = = = Life!
Come to this pair, Mark SABRE
and his wife Mable. at Penny Green
and have u look. at them mixed W
in this odd and mysterious business
Of life.
Penny Green - picturesque
lauaint il ever a place was" in gar
rulous Mr.. Hapgood's words-ie'
in a shallow depression, in shape
like a narrow meat dish. 1t runs
EAST and vast, and slightly tiltec
from north to south. To the nortf
the land slopes pleasantly upward
in pasture and orchards. and here
was the site of the Penny Greer
Garden Home Development Scheme
Beyond the site, a considerable area
stands Northrepps, the seat of Lore
Tybar. Lord Tybar sold the Dew
opment site to the developers and
as he signed the deed OF convey
ance, remarked in his airy way. "Ah
nothing like exercise, gentlemen
That's made every one CT my an
cestors turn in his grave" The de
velopers Uttered respectfully as be.
fits men who had landed a good
thing. =.
Westward of Penny Green !
Chovensbury; behind Tidborougi
the sun rises.
Penny Green, like Rome, had no
been built in a day. Thu houses O.
the Penny Green Garden Home, oil
the other hand, were being run III
in as rear to a day as enthusiasm
developers, feverish contractors Ivy
ing one with another) and impatien
tenants could encompass. MOI wa
Penny Green built for a day. Tit
! houses had been built not only b.
people who intended to live in then
and proposed to be roomy and wei
?. cupboarded and stoutly beamed an&
foored in them, but who. not fore
. seeing q restless and xailwayed gen
Grafton, built them to endure for tn,
children of heir chi1dren's children