Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-03-27
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den through dark, enormous and ca
vernous seas. Mysterious journey!
uncharted, unknown and finally-but
there is no inality! Mysterious and
stunning sequel not end to the mys-
FERROUS and tremendous adventure!
Finally, of this portion, death, disap-
pearance-gone! Astounding devel-
opment! Odd affair! Mysterious and
battling conundrumSto be mixed up in!
-. IAfel
Come to this pair, Mark Sabre and
have a look at them mixed up in this
odd and mysterious business of life.
Penny acknowledgements, quaint
If ever a place was" in %garrulous Mr..
Hopgoods s words-lics in the shallow
depression, in shape like a narrow
meat dish. 1t runs East and West,
and slightly tilted from north to south.
TO the north the land slopes pleasant
and here was the site Of the Penny
Green Garden Home Development
Scheme. Beyond the site, u consid-
cradle area, stands Northrepps, the
seat Of Lord Tybar. Lord Tybar sold
The o~eve.opmenC site to the develop
ers, and. as he signed the deed of con-
Veyauce, remarked in his airy way,
All, nothing like exercise, gentlemen.
That's made everyone OF my ancestors
turn, in his grave" The developers
Uttered respectfully as BELTS men who
had landed a good thing.
Westward OF Penny green is Cho-
~vensbury; behind Tidborough the sun
rises.
Penny Green, like Rome, had not
been built in a day. The houses Of
the Penny Green Garden Home, on
h other hand, were being run up
ri as .t@tAr 20 a day as enthusiastic
developers, feyerish contractors IVY
ing one with anothcr) and impatient
tenants could encompass. Nor was
Penny Green built for O day., The
houses had been built not only by
people who intended to live in them,
and proposed to be roonly and we'll
cupboarded and stoutly beamed and
foored in them, but who, not fore
seeing restless and railwayed genera
tons, built them to endure for the
children Of their children's children
and for children yet beyond, Sabre's
house was Of grey stone and it pre-
sented over the doorway the date Of
1857.
Nearly two hundred and fifty
years. Mabel had once said.
And 1 bet" Sabre had replied, Its
neve been better kept or run than
you run it now, Mabel"
The tribute was we'll deserved. Ma
bel. who was in many ways Il model
woman, was pre-ein4nently a model
housewife. '"Crawshaws'.. was spot
lessly kept and perfectly administered.
h only room in the house which
Sabre did not like was the sitting
his own room, furnished and deco
rated by Mabel for his own particu-
lar use and comfort. But she called
it his "den," and Sabre loathed and
detested the word den as applied to
a room a man specially inhabits. 1t
implied to him q masculine untidi-
ness, and he. was intensely orderly
and hated untidness. 1t implied Gus
toms and of what he called
"boardtng-house. ides'-the idea that
a man must have an untidily comfort
able apartment into which he can re-
tire and envelop himself in tobacco
smoke, and where he can have his
WI things around him and .have
his pipes and his pictures about him ;"
and where he can wear IAN old shoot
ing jacket and slippers'-and he
loathed n detested all these phrases
and the ideas they connoted. He had
no "old shooting jacket" and he would
have given it to the gardener il he
had; and he detested wearing slippers
and never lid slippers; it was
his habit to put on his boots after his
bath and to keep them on till he put
on shoes when changing for dinner.
Above all, he loathed and detested
the vision which the word "den" al
ways conjured up to him. This was
q vision of the DOR of the typical den
being opened by a wife, and of the
wife saying in a mincing voice, This
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