The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-18
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It's opening sentence. This England
you live In IN yours had arisen
out Of his passionate love for all that
England meant to him. In all shake.
speare there Was no passage that
moved him In quito thu same way
whenever he recalled " as Richard
the Seconds
Dear earth. do salute thee with
WY hand
Mock not my senseieas eonJuration.
lords
This earth shall have a feeling -
STOPPING and touching the soil OF
England as one might bend and
touch beloved face. THAT Was what
England for yeArs had meant 10 him.
And now :. II VAS upon these rmo-
tlons. vaguely. IN case" that he
had gone TO Doctor Anderson on the
morning % the frightful news. An.
derson had told him he couldn't pos
sihly he passed for the Army. but
at the moment the idea of ever want
ing To 50 into the Army had only
been an almost rtdiculnusly remote
contingency. and what did Anderson
know about the Army standard. any.
, way.
He said nothing TO Mabel % his
intcntion- II was Just precisely the
sort 81 thing he could not possibly
discuss with Mabel. Mabel would
say, ''whyevcr should YOU" ana Of
all Imaginable orisals the idea of OK.
posing before Mabel his feeling about
England he would tell her when
u was done. u II came of. lie could
say then. Ia what he knew to be tho
clumsy way IN which he had learned
to hide hts IDEAS from her. be could
say. well. | had to-
And his thought was. when a few
hours LATER he Was walking slowly
away from hls interview with Major
E,srnshaw, the doctor at the barracks,
Thank God. never aala anything
to Mabel about IT,"
The very few officers ieft behind
at the depot were at breakfast when
he arrived TO keep Colonel Rsffr2y
10 his word. Major Esrnshaw had
very PLEASANTLY got up from the tabi,
20 put him out Of hls misery" there
and then without formality and had
had a SO 81 this heart u yours In
the billiard room. Withdrawn HE
Ststho@cops and shaken his head. IL
Was mo go absolutely none. Sabre. .
Well. but that's for a commission.
IN go into the ranks. fsn't that any
differfntf-
No different You can't possibly
so In AZ you sre-aow. In tune. II
probably be reduced. But they'll have
70 be reduced a soodish long way
before you'n set In. dca't mind tell.
ing you
sabre wheeled his bicycle slowly
away across the barrack square.
Thank goodness. I never said any.
thing TO Mabel about it." A cluster
Of young msn OF various degrees Of
life wers waiting outside tho door OF
tho recruiting office. The rush Of
the first few days Was thinning down
but recruits wer. stlll pouring In.
They were all laughing and talking
uolsily. HE had the ~ish that he
could take the thing In that spirit
Why couldn't hcy After all. what
did Il really matter that he was not
able TO get -in tt's Even " he had
been accepted u would only have
been pretending. lie never would
have go, really I'm IT,. none of those
chaps would every one knew the var
couldn't last long; " would be over
long before any Of these recruits
could be trained.
VII
This common ssnse. Argument
carried him thru following days; then
came another OF tho frsghffui undo
inss OF his emotions; and just as tho
war definitely began for him with the
glimpse Of the beginnings Of that
'jamborino- In the Mess. 30 from
this new OCCASION began. uneeaslns.
~ and Increasingly, and with shock.
ing esfect upon his constituencies. a
dreadful oppression by the war and.
adding to Il. darkness. a Enawing
and unreasonable self accusation that
he was not in It,"
The occasion was that OF his meet
: ing vsth Hardness outside the coun-
1 " Times office. Hardness was a
captain OF the battalion that had
gone out who had been left behind
owing to some Illness. The British
Expeditionary Force had been In ac.
tion. There had baen scraps OF news
Of some heavy fighting. Hardness
said duly, 'Hullo. Sabre. I've Just
been IN TO see that chap Pike 10 see
IL he'd got anything. We've had
some news. you know" Jie stopped.
His face was twitching.
Sabre said, "Nsws7 Anything
about the Pinks7"
Hardness nodded. He seemed 70
be swallowing. Then he said. Yes.
! the regiment. Pretty bad"
Sabre said. "Anyone--2' and also
stopped.
Hardness looked. not at Sabre. but
straight across the top Of his head
and began an appalling. and az !;
seemed TO Sabre, an endless r-cita-
tive. THE colonefs killed. Bruce
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