Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-04-07
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In the summer OF 1914
MARK SABRE finds that he is es-
tranged from human sympathy
and understanding with the sole
exception of
LADY MONA TYBAR, an old sweet
heart, now ~unhappily married.
Sabre's prosaic and snobbish wife.
MABEL. fails to understand her
husbands poetic and whimsical
temperament. In business he is
undermined by Jealous associates
in the firm Of Fortune. East and
Sabre and a promised partnership
is diverted from him to
TWYNING. At this point Nona'5
life with Tybar is intolerable and
she asks Sabre TO take her away.
War is declared and Sabre rushes
to inform his wife.
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She echoed the word. War;"
Eyes, declared war;
He was b~reathless, painting. She
said, Good graciousl Whatever will
happen? Have you brought ar even
Ing paper? Do you know the pa
pers didn't come this morning till
He could not hear her out. mo. /
didn't wait. l simply rushed away
He was close to her. He took her
A8uQ6. say NAdDcif It's wal. his
emotions were tumultuous and ex-
traordinary. He wanted to draw her
to him and kiss her. They had not
kissed for longer than he could have
remembered; but nov he held her
hands hard and desired TO kiss her.
II say, it's war"
She gave her sudden burst OF
laughter. you are excited. I've
W seen you so excited. Your col
lars undone."
He dropped her hands. He said
rather stupidity, We'll. it's war, you
know" and stood there.
She turned to her dressing table.
well, I do wish you'd stayed for a
paper"
Lying awake. he thought of Mona.
He had not written the letter to her.
The appointed day was past and he
had not written He would have
said, during that unutterable dark
ness in which he had awaited it.
that not the turning of the world
upside down would have prevented
him writing; but the world had
turned upside down. 1t was not a
board Pixies men had swung around
in that appalling moment when he
had watched them appear on the
balcony. 1t was the accustomed and
imponderable world, awfully unbal-
anced. Mona would understand.
Mona always understood everything.
He wondered how she had main
tanned this terrific day. He was as
sured that he knew. She would
have felt just as he had felt. He
thought, with a most passionate
longing for her, that he would have
given anything to have been able to
turn to Their when he had exclaimedi
My God, war" and to have caught
her hands and looked into her beau
tiful face. Tomorrow he would send
the letter. Tomorrow? Why. yes,
today, like all todays in. the removed
-aa Ehe-A Hight Of all tomorrow's,
would be shown needlessly hectic.
Ten to one something would have
happened in the night to make to-
day look foolish.
III
When he went down into Tidbor-
ough in the morning it was to know
at n c that this tomorrow gave no
lie to its precedent day. 1t intensified
it. The previous day foreshadowed
war. The new day presented it.
He went into the office. The after
DON post had brought letters to his
desk. He turned them over without
interest, then caught up one-from
Mona.
Mako, this frightful wari I have
thanked God on my knees 70 you
rat last week you prevented me. II
] had done 1t with this! Tony has
rsyolned the Guards, he was in the
Reserve of Officers. And you see
that whatever has been, and is, dtar,
he's my man to stand by in this.
Mako, it would have been too awful
IL I couldn't, and / thank God for
YOU, again and again and again
Mona.
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The enormous and imponderable
world awfully unbalanced. Upside
down. Extraordinarily unreal. Fur
iously real.
Life, which had been a thing of
events in which there was no time.
only events.
Things began one day very shortly
after the declaration of war when,
passing the barracks on his way
home, Sabre was accosted and taken
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