Evening journal., 1922-03-27
CHAPTER I.

and at the place Penny Green Is 70
necessitate looking back little to-
wards the time OF his marriage in
1904. but happens TO find him in
good light for observation. En-
countering him hereabouts. one who
had shared school days with him al
his preparatory school so much as
twenty-four years back would have
found matter for recognition.
A usefully garrulous person. one
Hapgood. a solicitor, found much.
Whom do you think / met yes
.terday? Old Ssbrei You remember
old Sabre at old Wickamote's?
Yes. that's the chap. Used TO call
him Puzzlehead remember? Be
|cause he used 10 screw up his fore
head over things old Wickamote or
|any OF the other masters said and
sort OF drawl out. Well. don't see
That, sir Yes, ratherl And
Then that other expression OF his.
Just the opposite. When old Wicka-
4 'mote or some one had landed him,
i or all OF us. with some dashed pun
shment. and we were gassing about
II. used 10 screw up his nut in the
same way and say. Well. what does
be mean. you ass?' and he'd start
passing some rot until some one said,
Good lord fancy sticking up for a
4nasterr And old Puzzlehead would
d hay. You slckening foot. I'm not
f Fticking up for him. I'm only say
q ng he's right from how he looks At
i and It's no good saying he's
Wrong Yes. 7 met him
i Yes. in his ONCE I saw him
3He's IN a good business down there
s *at Tdborough. Dashed good For
&une. Fast and Sabre Never
&hesrd of them? All. we'll That shows
2 you're not a pillar Of the Church.
& old son. II you took the faintest in
g crest In your particular place OF
worship. or in any Anglican place OF
4 Worship. you'd know that whenever
"A ou want anything for the Church
Il. rom a hymn book OF a hassock or
81 pew 70 = pulpit or a screen or a
n pire you go 20 Fortune. East and
abre. Tidborough. Similarly In the
ri cholastic line. anything from a
81 irch rod 20 a desk-Fortune East
81 nd sabre. by return and the best
10. they're the great. the great
M hurch and school-furnishing people
Married. Oh, yes he's married
las been some time. believe
hough they've no kids. had lunch
I! his place one time was down
7t t'idborough way. Now there's a place
IS. Oh ought 10 20 70 paint one oi
our pictures-where ne lives-Pen-
><2 y Green. Picturesque. quaint Il
~ YER a place was
*.E Yes. you go down there and have
~ look. with your sketch-book. Old
f sbre1l love 20 see you &C. Hi'
81 life? Oh. very nice, distinctly
so Ice. Pretty woman, very. Somehow
didn't think quite the sort OF wo
# ran for old Puzzlehead. Didn't ap
ear to have the remotest interes
any of the things he was keeT
3 bout and ne seemed a bit fed with
~; or sort ~ talk. Hers was all Eos
p-all about the people there and
|I5 hat a rum crowd they were. Devil
n funny. 7 thought. some of ne
-! ories. Rut old Sabre-well I sup
~ ose he'd heard 'em before. Still
lere was something-somethini
bout the two Of them. You know
&. hat sort of-sort OF stifish feelini
' 'pu sometimes feel IN the air will
no people who don't quite click"
CHAPTER IT
Thus. by easy means N the gar
ious Hapgood, appear personi
M aces. institutions; lives. homes
tivities: the web and the tangle an
TT . amenities OF minute fragmen
human existence. Life. An Cd
siness. Into life We come. mys
81 riously arrived. are set on our fee
d we 20: functioning more or les
Effectively. passing throuEh parmu
ions and combinations; meetn
o successive events shocks, sur
ises OF hours. days. years; becom
enruifed. submerged, foundere
them: all Of us on the same ad
slsI nture yet retaining neNerthele'
<'>s.< ch his own individuality, as awin
||;Z,| PRS carrying each his undetaef
4< . burden through dark. enormot
<<< cavernous seas Mysterior
irneyi Uncharted. unknown an
. ally-but there r. no hnality. N.Y.
<< ious and stunning sequel-not en-
10 the mysterious and tremendoi
venturei Finally. N this PORTO
ath. disappearance - gonei A
indine development Odd anal
,sterious and battling conundru
I& he mixed up In. Lie!
al ca = y
E; wife Mabel. at Penny Green, AT
M We a look al them mixed up
odd and mysterious business
Penny picturesque. quai
ever a place was" in garrulo
Hapgood's words-lies in
allow depression, in shape ike
M rrow meat dish. II runs east al
<< ST. and slightly tilted from nor
south. To the north the Lar
nes pleasantly upward in pactu
orchards. and here was the sl
the Penny Green Garden Hon
velopment Scheme. Beyond q
considerable area, stan
rthrepps. the seat OF Lord Tyb'
rd Tybar sold the Developme
10 the developers. and as
ned the deed OF conveyance 7
rkd in his airy way. "Ah' not
ike exercise. gentlemen. Tha
de every one Of my ancestors ia
MS grave" The developers liter
pectfuliy as behts men who h
ded a good thing.
Westward OF Penny Green