Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-04-14
Synopsis.

In the summer of 1914 Mark Sabre
finds that he is estranged from human
sympathy and understanding with the
OLD sweetheart. now unhappily married,
Sabre's prosaict and, snobblsh wife, Ma
bel. fails to understand her husbands
business he is undermined BY jealous as:
sociates in the firm Of Fortune. East and
Sabre and a promised partnership is d.
yerted from him to Twyning: At this
able and she asks Sabre to take her
away. War is declared and sabre rushes
TO secure a commission: He speaks ia
Colonel Rattray OF the Pinks. Rejected
trouble Sabre finds a companion, one
Enie Bright. for the mother Of a friend
Of his who has Joined the army.
Sabre again offered himself for enlist
mcnt and was rejected. Writes Mona.
Mrs. Perch, the aged woman for whom
Sabre has secured E1ie as a companion,
dies.
Sabre is called for service. goes to
France. Mabel secures Enie as com
Mabel gets rid Of Enie. Sabre pack to
france and is injured. Discharged from
Enie, with her small baby is taken
into the Sabre house by Mark. Mabel
leaves the house. "
Continued From Our Last Issue.
to. Sabre said the letter was the
most frightfully pathetic document
Smudged, he said, and stained and
badly expressed as If the writer-this
Effie Bright-was crying and inco-
herent with distress when she wrote
it. She said she'd got into terrible
trouble. She'd got q little baby, Sabre
said it was awful to him the way sh-
kept on in every sentence calling it
a little baby'-never a child, or just
a baby. but always a little baby my
little baby He said it was awful. She
said it was born in December-you
vious March she'd got the sack from
them-and that she'd been living in
lodgings with it, and that now he was
well enough to move, and had come
to the absolute end of her money, she
was being turned out and was at her
Wits end with despair and nearly out
Of her mind to know what to do and
all that kind Of thing. She said her
father wouldn't have anything to do
with her, and no would have any
thing to do With her-so long as she
plight; M n would have. anything to
do with her while she had the baby.
Her father was willing to take her
home. and some kind people, had Of.
fer9d to take her into service, but
only. all Of them, IL she would ri.
up the baby and put it out to nurse
somewhere; and she said, and under
lined it about fourteen times, Sabre
said. and cried over 1t 50 you could
hardly read it about fourteen. times,
Sabre said. and cried over it so you
could hardly read 1t, she said; And.
Oh. Mrs. Sabre, I can't, I can't. ] sim
ply cannot give up my little baby.
. He's mine she aaid. He loo},
at me, and knows me. and stretches
out his tiny little hands to me, and I
can't give him up. I can't let my lit
tie baby 80. Whatever I've done. I'm
his mother and he's my little baby
and I cant let him co.
Sabre said It vas awful. I can
believe 1t was. ia seer the girl, a.
"a seen her stopping over baby and
for 1t. Poor soul.
And then she Aid-I can remem-
ber this bit-then she mid And so,
in my terrible distress, dear Mrs
Sabre, I am throwing myself on your
mercy, and begging you, impfortng
you, for the love OF God to take in me-
and my little baby and let me work
for 0 and do anything for you and
bless you and ask Gods pleasing for
ever upon you and teach nv i..A,e
baby to pray for You as something
or other I fcrket.. And then Fl"
said a lot Of hysterical things about
working her fingers to the bone for
Mrs. Sabre. and knowing she was a
wicked sirlt and not fit to be spoken
to BY anyone, and was willing to syeep
In Q shed In the garden and never u
open her month. and all that sort o.
thing; q Al the way through my