Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-04-05

what. in those years. he came to crave
for as a starved child Graves food was
sympathy Of mind.
He found IT, In Penny Green, with
what Mabel called THE most extraOrdi-
nary people" What you can find In
ythat Mr.. Fargus and that young Perch
and his everlasting mother" she used to
say, 4 simply cannot imagine"
II.
Mr.. Fargus. who lived next door down
the Green. was a gray little man with
gray whiskers and always in a gray
suit. He had a large and very red wife
and six thin and rather yellowish daugh-
ters.
And there were the Perches-"Young
Perch and that everlasting old mother OF
his" as Mabel called them.
Sabre always spoke of them as Young
Rod, Pole or Perch" and "Old Mrs Rod.
Pole or Perch" This was out Of what
Mabel called his childish and incompre-
heDsible habit Of giving nicknames-
High links and Low Jinks the Outstand-
ing 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 q
bath chair
She was intensely weak sighted, but
she never could find her glasses; and she
kept locked everything that would lock,
but she never could find her keys. She
held off all acquaintance by the rigid
handle Of that" before their names but
she was very fond Of that Mr.. Sabre"
and Sabre returned a great affection for
her.
Young Perch was a tall and slight
young man with a happy laugh and an
air which suggested to Sabre after puzzle
ment. that his spirit was only alghted
in his body as a bird alights and swings
upon n twig. not engrossed in his body.
Sabre was extraordinarily attracted by
the devotion between the pair Their
interest, their habits, their thoughts were
as widely sundered as their years. yet
each was wholly and completely bound
mp in the other. When Sabre sat and
talked with Young Perch of an evening,
old Mrs. Perch would sit with them,
next her son, In an armchair asleep. At
intervals she would start awake and
say querulously: Now I suppose
must be driven of 10 bed7"
Young Perch, not pausing in what
he might be saying. would stretch a
hand and lay 1t on his mothers Mrs
Perch, as though Freddie's hand touched
away enormous WEAKNESS and care,
-
1t gave Sable extraordinary sensations
If he had been asked to name his par
ticular friends these were the friends
he would have named. He saw them
constantly. Infrequently he saw an
other. Quite suddenly she came back
into his life.
Mona returned into his life.
PART TWO
MONA.
CHAPTER l.
l.
Sabre. ambling his bicycle along the
pleasant lanes toward Tidborough one
fine morning in the early summer Of
1912 was met in his thoughts by OBJ
servation, as he topped a rise, Of the
galloping progress of the light railway
that was tO>1ink up the Penny Green
Garden Home with Tidborough and Cho-
vensbury.
Here was a subject that interested him
and that intensely Interested Mabel, and
yet it could never be mentioned between
them without Only that very
morning at breakfast And June
he always remembered twas the an
niversary month of their wedding I"
Eight years ago Eight years
II.
A genial shouting and the clatter of
agitated boots. jerked Sabre from his
thoughts.
"Hullo Hi! Help! Out collisionmats
Stop the cab Look out, Sabre! Sabre!"
He suddenly became aware-and he
jammed on his brakes and dismounted
by straddling a leg to the ground