The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-05-01
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ser} q myself. The plot thickenss' II
hid alanr say n, l can promise you
thought e. ala. And n proceeded
be>r1 % eurdie The door that had
81 slammed opened and presently In
II comes sabre with tho sirL And the
O. s.ri with the baby In her arms. Sabre
= e sAsa In his ordinary. easy voiee--he's
rot particularly nice voice. has cid
n 2 eahre--This II a very retiring young
- person. HapEood. Had 20 be- dragged
los,& m, Miss Bright. Her fathers In the
N ~ office. Perhaps you've met him. have
; rs4 your
well. I don't know what I said.
sd cla man know what thought
Isl 4 thought just precisely what you're
81 >xhinking. Yes. ! had q furiously
~ Txid shot OF recollection OF old
pa& Bright as Id seen him couple OF
u hours before. OF hts blazing hook. Of
. 81 his gesture Of wanting 10 hurl the
: ~ Tables OF Ssene AT me. and OF his
iosI extraordinary remark about sabre
~ had that and I did what you're
h~]4 doing: l put two and two together
4 ~ and found the obvious answer ssame
as youl and l Jolly near fell down
. p dead. l did. Jolly near.
~ ~But Sabre was going on. pleasant
ur~I and natural as you please. Miss
~ Bright was here as companion TO my
NJ wife while l was IN France. Now
she's staying here a bit. Put the
q II baby on tho sofa. Effie. and let's get
n 10 work. Id like you two TO be
- friends. Hapgood and I were az
y, 81 school together. you know. about a
n thousand years ago. They used TO
!. ~ call him Porksr because he was so
v~s1 thin
- The girl smiled family. put up
-~.,l an hystericai sort Of squeak. and we
- eat down The meal wasn't precisely
banquet. We helped ourselves and
stacked up the soiled plates as We
used them. No servants. d'you see ?
D That was pretty clear BY now. No
III wife, no servants. no wedding ring.
- nothing but old Brighrs daughter
: n and old Brieht's daughters baby
e ~ and--and--SAbre.
Aco> Il suppose l talked. ! heard my
- ice sometimes The easy flow
pre- had started with didn't last
Al *. The glri hardly spoke I
watched her lot liked the look
bel1& 81 her She must have been uncom-
,~~>i monty pretty In vivacious sort %
.ifv. 4 way befor. she ran up against her
NJ trouble whatever II WAS say What.
I'm y ever q was. I'd no real reason to
i'm n suppose l knew. tho mind you. was
opnj guessing pretty shrewdly II was ~
Ing there on the soft wrapped w in
what d'you call 'ems-swaddiing
= clothes. Yes. uncommonly pretty.
= but now sad-sad as a young widow
IL 1T the funeral. that sort OF look. n
- was her eyes that especially showed
dsas H. Extraordinary eyes. Like two
cur14 great pools In a shadow. IL may
end quote poetry at you.
HA "Hsr eyes were deeper than the
depth
liiss OF waters stfiied at evsn--
And all the sorrow In them OF al the
women since Mary Aiagdalen. All
'.~I the time but onc~ once IN. baby
whimpercd. and she got up and went
20 II and stopped over Il the other
side OF the sofa from me. 30 could
see her face. BIZ cad. II you could
have seen her eyes then. Mother
hood. Lucky you weren't there. be-
| cause IL you've any idea Of ever
N | painting a picture called Motherhood.
l you'd ha' gone straight out and cut
- your throat on the mat in despair.
II You certainly would
We'll. anyway, the banquet got
more and more awkward TO endure
Il a. It dragged on. and mighty glad /
/ was when at last the girl got up
WITHOUT a word-and picked up the
Mhxby and left US. Left VS.. We were
no more chatty for being alone. I
can promise you. absolutely could
not think Of word to say. and any
Internal thing that old sabre man
CT i aged TO rake up seemed complete and
d5ne 10 death the minute he'd said II.
Then all OF sudden he began. He
i fIshed out some cignrefs and chueked
4 u me one aud We smoked Ike couple
~ Of exhaust valves for about two min
- utes and then he said. 'Hapgood. why
u on earth should have 20 explain ali
this 10 your Why should IL
Il said. a tiny bit sharply was
getting a bit on edge, you know
said. Well. who's asked you tot I
haven't asked any questions. have IT
Sabre said. No. know you
haven't asked any, and I'm Internal
~ grateful to you You're the first
person across this threshold I'm
months that hasn't But | know
you're thinking theni-hard. And I
T. know I've got to answer them. And
IL want 20. want TO most fright
= / fully. But what beats me f. this
~ Internal feeling that I must explain
% you. 70 you and 70 everybody.
whether want TO or not. Why
- should II It's my own house. I