South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-27
IF Winter Comes
BY HUTCHINSON

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have a look. with your sketch-book.
old sabre'u love 20 see you--tiis
wife,. ..... on. very nice. distinctly
nice Pretty woman. verE. some
how I didn't think quite the sort Of
woman for old Puzzlehead. Didn't
appear 20 have the remotest inter
est i'm any of the things he was
keen about and he seemed a bit fed
with her sort Of talk. Hers was all
gossip-all about the people there
and what "a rum crowd they were
Devilish funny. I thought. some Of
her stories. But old Sabrc-well l
slpDose he'd heard 'em before. still
there was something-sOmething
about the two OF them You know
that sort of-sort Of stlfish feeling
YOU sometimes feel i'm the air with
two peorle who don't quite click.
CHAPTER III.
Thus. by easy means OF the gar-
rulous Hapgood. appear persons.
places. institutions; livtA homes.
activities. the web and the tanEle
and the amenities Of a minute frag-
ment OF human existence. Life. An
odd business. Into life we come.
mvsterlousiy arrived, are set on our
feet and on we go: functioninE more
or less ineffeCtively passing through
permutations and combinations;
meeting the successive events,
shocks. surprises of hours, DAYS,
wears: becoming enEulfed. sub
merged. foundered by them; all Of
us on the same adventure yet re-
tanning nevertheless each his own
individuality. as swimmers carrying
each his understandable burden
through dark. enormous and cavern
GUS seas. Mysterious journey, Tn
charted. unknown and fnally-but
there is no fnalty, Mysterious and
stunning sequel-not end-tO the
mysterious and tremendous adven-
ture, Finally. of this portion
death. disappearance gone As
founding development, odd affair.
Mysterious and baffIinE conundrum
to be mixed up in.... Life.......
Come to this rair Mark Sabre
and his wife Mabel at Penny Green
and have a look at them mixed uu
i'm this odd and mysterious business
Of life
Penny Green-''picturesque, quaint
/ if ever a place was in garrulous
+ Mr. Hapgood's words-lies i'm a
shallow depression. i'm shape like a
narrow meat dish 1t runs east and
west. and slightly tilted from north
/ to south. To the north The land
slopes pleasantly upward in pacture
and orchards and here was the site
Of the Penny Green Garden Home
/ Development Scheme. Beyond the
site considerable area stands
Northrepps. the seat of Lord Tybar
T Lord Tybar sold the Development
site to the developers, and. as me
/ signed the deed OF conveyance. re-
marked i'm his airy WAY. ooh. moth
( ing like exercise, gentlemen. That's
made every one of my ancestors
turn i'm his grave" The developers
Uttered respectfully as BELTS mer
who had landed "a good thing.
Westward of Penny Green i,
/ Chovensbury; behind TidborouSh
/ the sunrises.
Penny Green. like Rome. had not
| been built i'm a day The houses OF
I the Penny Green Garden Home. on
/ the other hand. were being run up
/ i'm as near TO a day as enthusiastic
+ developers. feverish contractor:
/ Cvying one with another) and i'm
patient tenants could encompass
Nor was Penny Green built for a
/ day The houses had been built
not only by people who intended tC
live i'm them. and proposed to be
roomy and we'll cupboarded and
stoutly beamed and hoored i'm them
/ but who. not foresecing restless and
railwayed generations, built them
to endure for the children of their
/ children's children and for children
grey stone and it presented over
/ the doorway the date of 1867.
Nearly two hundred and fifty
years" Mabel had once said.
And I bet" Sabre had replied
/ cts never been better kept or run
! than you run il now. Mabel
The tribute was well deserved
\ Mabel. who was i'm many ways a
model woman. was Tre-eminontly a
model housewife "Crawshaws' was
| spouessly kept and perfectly adj
/ ministered.
The only room in the house which
/ "a bre did not like was the sittine
room on the ground floor and il
was his own room furnished and
/ decorated by Mabel for his own
particular use and comfort. Bu
she called il his den" and Sabre
I loathed and detested the word der
as applied to room man special
I ~ inhabits II implied to him a
1 masculine untidinoss, and he wa:
/ intensely orderly and hated untidi-
/ ness. tt implied customs and man
ners of what he called "boarding-
/ house ideas '-the idea that man
must have an untidily comfortable
apartment into which he can retire
and envelop himself in tobacco
smoke and where ne "can have his
/ own things around him and "have
/ his pipes and his pictures about
him." and where he can wear can
old shooting jacket and slippers
/ and he loathed and dotested al
these phrases and the ideas they
/ connoted He had no old shoot
| ing jacket" and he would have
given 1t TO the gardener If ne had,
and ne detested wearing slippers
/ and never did wear slippers: il was
his habit to put on his boots after
his hath and TO keep them on tin he