The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-03-29
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10 Fortune, East and Sabre, It'd
borough Similarly in the scholastic
line, anything from birch rod TO a
desk-Fortunate, 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, ! believe, though
they've no kids / had lunch at his
place one time | was down It'd
borough way. Now there's a place
you ought to 70 10 paint one OF
your pictures-where he lives-Penny
Green Picturesque, quaint, If ever
place was
"Yes, You 20 down there and have
look. with your sketch book. Old
Sabre'l love TO see you His
wife? $ Oh, very nice, distinctly
hice Pretty woman. very. Some.
now | didn't think quite the sort Of
woman for old Puzzlehead. Didn't
appear 10 have the remotest interest
in any of the things he was keen
about and ne seemed a bit fed with
her sort of talk. Hers was all gossip
all about the people there and
what rum crowd they We're. Devil
ish funny. ! thought, some of her
stories. But old Sabre-well, | sup
pose he'd heard em before. Still
there was something-something about
the two of them. You know that
sort of-sort of stiffish feeling you
sometimes feel in the air with two
people who don't quite click"
CHAPTER II.
Thus. By easy means Of the gar
rulous Hapgood, appear persons,
places, institutions; lives, homes, ac-
tivities; the web and the tangle and
the amenities Of a minute fragment
OF human existence. Life. An odd
business. Into life we come, myster-
iously arrived. are set on our feet
and on we go; functioning more or
less ineffectively, passing through
permutations and combinations; meet
ing the successive events. shocks.
surprises of hours, days, years; be-
coming engulfed. submerged. found
cred by them. all of us on the same
stuNtllult Ntk ifAsAliAilAE AiNN q NiNANs'
each his own individuality, as swim
mers carrying each his undetachable
burden through dark. enormous and
cavernous seas. Mysterious journey!
Uncharted. unknown and finally
but there f. no finality! Mysterious
and stunning sequel-not end-to the
mysterious end tremendous adventure.
Finally, of this portion, death. dis
arpearance-gone! Astounding devel'
opment. Odd affair! Mysterious and
battling conundrum 10 be mixed up
I'M Lifel
Come TO this pair, Mark Sabre and
his wife Mabel. at Penny Green, and
have look at them mixed UP in this
odd and mysterious business OF life.
II.
Penny picturesque. quaint
IL ever place was" In garrulous Mr..
Hapgood's words-lies In a shallow
depression, in shape like narrow
meat dish. II runs east and west,
and slightly Titled from north to
south. To the north the land slopes
pleasantly upward in pasture and
orchards, and here was the site Of
the Penny Green Garden Home De.
velopment Scheme. Beyond the site
a considerable area. stands North.
repps. the seat Of Lord Tybar. Lord
Tybar sold the Development site TO
the developers, and. as he signed the
deed of conveyance. remarked in his
airy way. "Ah. nothing like evercise,
gentlemen. That's made every one
Of my ancestors turn In his grave"
The developers Uttered respectfully
as beflts men who had landed a good
thing.
Westward OF Penny Green Is
Chovensbury: behind Tidborough the
sun rises.
Penny Green, like Rome. had not
been built In day. The houses Of
the Penny Green Garden Home. on
the other hand. were being run up In
as near to q day as enthusiastic de.
velopers. fe,erish contractors (yying
one with another) and impatient ten.
ants could encompass. Nor was
Penny Green built for day. The
houses had been built not only by
people who intended to live in them
and proposed TO be- roomy and well
cupboarded and stoutly beamed and
floorcd In them. but who. not fore
seeing restless and railwayed genera
tlons, built them TO endure Tor the
children OF their chidrens children and
for children yet beyond. Sabre's
house was OF grey stone and II pre-
scented over the doorway the date Of
1867.
Nearly two hundred and fit,
years" Mabie had once said.
And bet" Sabre had replied
"it's never been better kept or rur
than you run Il now. Mabel"
The tribute was we'll deserved
Mabel. who was In many ways 1
model woman, was pre.cmincntly I
model housewife. "Crawshaws" wa
spotlcssly kept and perfectly admin
istcred.
The only room In the house whlcl
Sabre did not like was the the sittlnl
room on the ground floor. and IL wa
his own room, furnished and deco
rated by Mabel for his own particu
ar use and comfort But she callc
II his den" and sabre loathcd an
dctcstcd the word den as applied &
a room man specially inhah.ts
implied to Linn q masculine untid
ness. and nc was intensely ordcrl