Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-04-03
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After eight years of married life.
MARK SABRE m to realize that
he is neither understood by his
prosaic and snobbish wife,
MABEL, o by his colleagues in
the firm of Fortune, East and
Sabre. A promised partnership
in the business has been denied
him and promised to
TWYNING, a~>5ealous associate.
Suddenly an old sweetheart,
MONA, now the wife of the dashing
lLORD TYBAR, returns after two
years of travel. Mabel becomes
Jealous of Mona who visits Sabre
at his office. Something makes
Sabre suspect that Mona is not
happily married. She says she is
Just drifting. folsom"
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She said swiftly. as though she
were stirred, "oh. Mako. yes. that's
mysterious. Do you know some
times I've seen drift like that, and
live felt-oh, l don't know. But I've
put out a stick and drawn in a piece
of wood just as the stuff was moving
off just to save 1t being carried away
into-well. into that. you know" F..
Have you, Nona?"
She answered, DO you think
that's what life Ii. Marko?"
Its not unlike" he said. And he
added, Except about someone COM
ing along with q stick and drawing
bit into safety. I'm not sure about
that. Perhaps that's what we're all
looking for"
He suddenly realized that he was
back precisely at the thoughts his
mind had taken up on the morning
he had met her. But with a degree
more Of illumination. Two feelings
came into his mind. the second hard
upon the other and overriding 1t, as
a fierce horseman might catch and
override one pursued. He said, Its
rather jolly to have someone that
can see ideas Hike that" And then
the overriding, and he said with
astonishing roughness, But you
you aren't fotsam! How can you be
1otsam-the life you've-taken?"
And, 10, If he had struck her, and
she been bound, defenseless. and
with her eyes ~entreating not to be
struck again, she could not deeper
have entreated him than in the
glance she fieeted from her eyes. the
quiver Of her lids that first released,
then yelled 1t.
1t stopped his words. 1t caught
his throat.
He got up quickly. "I say. Mona,
never mind about thinking. I'll tell
you what's been doing. Rotten. Hap
pened just after / met you the other
day."
THE dust on these roads!" she
said. She touched her eyes with her
handkerchief. f'What, Marko?"
We'll, old Fortune promised to
take me into partnership about ar
age ago." :.
"Marko, he ought to have done II
an age ago. What's there rotten
about that?" Her voice and her all
were as gay as when she had
entered.
'"Tbe rotten thing is that he's
turned it down. At least practically
has. He" He told her OF the
Twyning and Fortune incident.
Pretty rotten Of old Fortune, don't
"old fend!" said Mona. "old
Sabre laughed. Good work, trout.
1.-The men here all say he's like a
whale. They call him JONAH" and
he told her why.
She laughed gaily. "Marko! How
disguised you are! But I'm sorry. ]
am. Poor old Mako . . . OF
course It doesn't matter horse
radish what an old trout like that
thinks about your work, but 1t does
matter, doesn't it? I know how you
feel.
She was at the shelves. scanning
the books. Her fond, her almost
tender sympathy made him. too, feel
that it was rather fine. Her light
words in her high, clear tone voiced
exactly his feelings towards the
i books. Talking with her vas in the
reception and return of his thoughts.
nearer to reading a book that de-
lighted him than to anything else
with which he could compare 1t.
was the same Interchange OF
Ideas, not necessarily expressed; the
same creation and play Oh rancy'
imagined, not stated.
She sat briskiy forward in h big
larmchair in which she faced him,
making of the motion a movement
as though throwing aside a turn the
conversation had taken. Well, go
on. Mako. I'm not going to let you
stop talking yet. 1 love h a about
lhow people get success nowadays.
It's Jolly true. / thought OF II
before. Yes, you're still a terribly
thinky person, Mako. Go or. Think
some more. Out loud"
Caressing-drawing him on-Just
as of old.
He said thoughtfully, 81 tell you a
thing I often think a lot about, Mona.
You being here like this puts 1t In
my mind. Conventions"
She smiled teasingly. "Ah, poor
Marko. I knew you'd simply hate
il. my coming like this. Does 1t
seem terribly unconventional, i'm
proper. to you shut up with me IN
your Officer"
He shook his head. 1T seems very
nice. That's all 1t seems. LOOK mere,
Mona, this really Is rather interest
ing"
lust SO he used to bring ideas TO
her; Just so, with "Yes-yes," she
used to receive them.
But he went on. why, conven-
ton, you know, it's the most mysteri-
Gus, extraordinary thing. It's a
code society has built up to protect
itself and to govern itself, and when
Iyou go into it it's the most marvel
Gus code that ever was invented. All
sorts of things that the aw doesn't
give, and couldn't give, our conven-
lions shove in on US in the most
way. And all probably orig
MATED by a lot of Mother Grundy-isf
old women, that's what's SO extraor-
binary. You know. IL all the great
est legal minds of all h ages had
laid themselves out TO make q social
code they could never have got any
where near the rules the people ave
built up for themselves n that's
what / like, Nona-that's what i