Bisbee daily review., 1922-03-28
CHAPTER I

To take Mark Sabre at the age of th.rty-four, and in the year 1a1c. and at the place Penny Green is to neces- sitate looking back q little towards the time of his marriage in 1904, but happens to find him in good light for observation. Encountering him here- atouts, ono who had shared school days with him at his preparatory school so much as twenty-four years back would have found matter for recognition.
 A usefully garrulous person, one t Hapgood, solicitor, found much.
 Whom do you think I met yester- day? Old Sabre! You remember old Sabre at old Wiekamote's? Yes, that's the chap. Used to call him Puzzlehead, remember? Because he used to screw up his forehead over things old Wickamote or any of the other masters said and sort of drawl out, Well, l don't see that, sir Yes, rather! And then that. other expression of his. Just the op- posite. When old Wickamote or some one had landed him, or all of us, with some dashed punishment, and we were gassing about it, used to screw up his nut in the same way ! and say, Well, what does he mean, you ass?' and he'd start gassing some rot till someone said, Good lord, l fancy sticking up for a master!' And old Puzzlehead would say. You sick ening fool, Pm not sticking up for him. I'm only saying he's right from l how he looks at it and it's no good saying he's wrong Ha! Funny days ' ," Yes, met him
 "Yes, in his office saw him %* ' | He's in a good business down there at Marlborough. Dashed good. For | tune. East and Sabre Never heard of them? An, well, that shows you're not pillar of the Church, old son. If you took the faintest interest in your particular place of worship, or in any Anglican place of worship, | you'd know that whenever you want anything for the Church from hymn ! book or hassock or a pew to pull pit or a screen or spire you go to Fortune, East and Sabre, Tidborougn. Similarly in the scholastic line, any thing from birch rod to a desk Fortune, East and Sabre, by return and the best No, they're the great, the great, church and school-furnish- ing people.
 Married? Oh, yes, he's married. 1 Has been some time. believe, though l they've no kids. I had lunch at his place one time l was down Tidbor- Il ough way Now there's a place you II ought to go to paint one of your pic tures-where he liVes-Penny Green. Picturesque, quaint, if ever place I was
 "Yes, you go down there and have a look, with your sketch-book. Old Sabrell love to see you His wife? " * Oh, very nice, distinctly nice. Pretty woman, very. Some how I didn't think quite the sort oi woman for old Puzzlehead. Didnt appear to have the remotest interest , in any of the things he was keen about and he seemed a bit fed with her sort of talk. Hers was all gossiT all about the people there and what
 a rum crowd they were. Devilish fur ny, I thought, some of her stories. But old Sabre-well, I suppose he'd heard
 lem before. Still there was some
 thing-sOmething about the two O. them. You know that sort of-sort O.
 stiffish feeling you sometimes feel II ! the air with two people who don' , quite click"
 CHAPTER II
 
 D Thus, by easy means of the garru
 lous Hapgood, appear persons, placei Q institutions. lives. homes, activities the web and the tangle and the amen ities of minute, fragment of humal . existence. Life. An odd business
 Into life we come, mysteriously al
 rived, are set on our feet and on VI al go; functioning more or less inefteci A lively, passing through perturbation
 and combinations; meeting the suC 1. ceSsive events, shocks, surprises Q |, hours. days, years; becoming engul
 ed. submerged, foundered by them
 all of us on the same adventure ye
 retaining nevertheless each his ow
 individuality, as swimmers carryin
 each his understandable burde Al through dark, enormous and caverl
 ous seas Mysterious journey! UI e charted, unknown and finally - bu
 there IS no finality! Mysterious an
 etunning sequel-not end--to the my 7, terious and tremendous adventure
 Finally, of this portion, death, di
 appearance-gone! Astounding d' e velopment! Odd affair! Mysteriou
 and baffling conundrum to be nike m in! Life!
 h II
 Penny picturesque. quaif
 if ever a place was5 in garrulous M
 Hapgood's words-lies in q shallo
 depression, in shape like a narro
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