Bisbee daily review., 1922-03-30


 MABEL fail to understand on an otEer. After eight years of mar ried life he knows that his de- lights in poetry, in whimsical hu- nor and in democratic ideals are not shared by the prosaic and snobbish Mabel.
 in the firm Of Fortune, East and Sabre, a church and school supply house. The firm is dominated by Rev. Sebastian Fortune, chief share holder.
 Sabre has been promised full part nership by MT. Fortune He desired it very greatly. The apportionment of duties in the establishment was that Sabre managed the publishing department. Twyning supervised the factory and workshops wherein the ecclestical and scholastic furniture was produced, and Fortune supervised his two principals and every least employe and smallest detail of all the business.
 In 1912 Sabre felt that he had now brought the publishing into line with the established departments. He had | emphasized the firms reputation lns this activity by the considerable su cess that attended two textbooks bearing lone in collaboration his own name, Sabre and Owens Elemen- tary Mathmatics" and "Sabre's Mod ern History
 The tributes with which this sli history primer of one hundred and fifty pages for eighteen pence had been greeted inspired Sabre towards much bolder work, on which the early summer of 1912 saw him be- ! ginning and ito which he found him self able to pour in surprising volume thoughts and feelings which he had scarcely known to be his until the pen and the paper began to attract them. The title he had conceived alone stirred them in his mind and drew them from it as a magnet stirs and draws iron filings. England Just England"
 CHAPTER VI
 Mabel called Sabres school text books those lesson books" After she had thus referred to them two or three times he gave up trying to i'm terest her in them. The expression hurt him, but when he thought upon it he reasoned with himsel' that he had no cause to be hurt.
 Later he never mentioned Eng land' to her. But he most desper- ately wanted to talk about it to some cne
 He was not actively aware of it, but what, in those years, he came to crave for as a starved child craves food was sympathy of mind.
 He found it, in Penny Green, with what Mabel called "the most extraor- dinary people, What you can find in that MT. Fargus and that young Perch and his everlasting mother she used to say q simply cannot m agine."
 MT. Fargue who lived next door down the Green was a gray little man with gray whiskers and always in gray suit. He had a large and very red wife and six thin and rather yellowish daughters.
 And there were the Percnes- Young Perch and that everlasting old mother of his," as Mabel called them.
 Sabre always spoke of them as q Young Rod, Pole or Perch" and "Old Mrs. Rod, Pole or Perch" This was out of what Mabel called his childish and incomprehensible habit of giving nicknames, High links and Low Jinks the outstanding and never-forgotten example of it.
 Mrs Perch was a fragile little body whose, life should have been and could have been divided between her bed and bath chair.
 She was intensely weak-sighted, but she never could find her glasses; rh 1a.lvaI |, f,,r ,at would lock, but she never could fir her keys She held off all acquain- tances by rigid handle of "tSat" be- fore their names, but she was very fond of that Mir Sabre" and Sabre returned great affection for her
 Young Perch was tall and slight young man with happy laugh and an air which suggested to Sabre, afte puzzlement, that his spirit was only alighted in his body as bird alights and swings upon twig, not engrossed in his body.
 Sabre was extraordinary attracted by the devotion between the pair, Their interests, their habits, their thoughts were as widely sundered as their years, yet each was wholly and completely bound up in the other. When Sabre sat and talked with young Perch of an evening, cid M Perch would sit with them, next her son, ill an armchair asleeq. At inter- vals she would start awake and say querulously, Now l suppose l mus be driven off to bed"
 Young Perch, not pausing in what he might be saying, would stretch hand and lay it ol his mothers. Mrs. Perch, as though Fredde's hand touched away enormous weariness sleep again
 It gave Sabre extraordinary sensa- tions.
 If he had been asked 10 name his particular friends these were the friends he would have named. He saw them constantly. Infrequently he saw another. Quite suddenly she l.....l.