Evening journal., 1922-03-29

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the. hrm OF Fortune East and Sabre, I
a church and school supply house. The |
Arm IL dominated by Rev. Sebastian /
Fortune, chief shareholder.
Sabre had been promised FUN /
partnership by Mr. Fortune. He de-
sired II very greatly. The sppor-
tionment OF duties in the establish !
ment was that Sabre managed the
publishing department. Twyning
supervised the factory and work
shops wherein the ecciesisssicsl and
scholastic furniture was produced,
and Fortune supervised his two prin-
cipais and every least employe and
smallest detail Of all the business.
In 1912 Sabre felt that he had now
brought the publishing into line
with the established departments.
He had emphasized the firms repu-
tation in this activity by the con-
siderable success that attended two
textbooks bearing Zone in coilabora-
uon) his own name. Sabre and
owens Elementary Mathematics"
and "sabre's Modern History.
This tributes with which this slim
history primer OF one hundred and
fifty pages for eighteen pence had
been greeted inspired Sabre towards
a much holder work. on which he
found himself able 10 pour in Eur-
prising volume thoughts and feel
ngs which he had scarcely known 20
be his until the pen and the paper
began 20 attract them. The title ne
had conceived alone stirred them in
his mind and drew them from II as
a magnet stirs and draws iron filings.
England" Just England"
CHAPTER VI
Mabel called sabre's school text
books "those lesson books" After
she had thus referred 10 them two or
three times he gave up trying 10 in
terest her in them. The expression
hurt him, but when he thought upon
II he reasoned with himself that ne
had no cause 10 be hurt.
Later ne never mentioned Eng
land" 10 her. But he most desper-
ately wanted TO talk about Il TO
someone.
He was not actively aware Of Il.
but what IN those years. he came 10
crave for az a starved child Graves
food was sympathy OF mind.
He found II. In Penny Green. with
what Mabel called the most extra
ordinary people" What you can
find in that Mr. FarEus and that
young Perch and his everlasting
nonthr." she used TO say. II simply
cannot imagine.
II
Mr.. Farglis. who lived next door
iown the Green, was a gray little
nan with gray whiskers and always
IN gray suit. He had a large and
very red wife and six thin and rather
yeilowish daughters.
And there were the Perches-
Young Perch and that everlasting
old mother OF his" as Mabel called
them.
sabre always spoke Of them as
Young Rod, Pole or Perch" and
"Oid Mrs. Rod, Pole or Perch" This
was out Of what Mabel called his
childish and incomprehensible habit
Of giving nicknames-High Jinks
and Low links the outstanding and
neverforEotten example OF Il.
Mrs. Perch was fragile little
body whose life should have been
and could have been divided between
her bed and a bath chair.
She was intensely weak sighted.
hut she never could find her
glasses: and she kept locked every
thing that would lock, but she never
could And her KEYS. She held OF all
acquaintsnces by the rigid handle OF
that" before their names. but she
was very fond Of that Mr. Sabre"
and Sabre returned a great affection
for her.
Young Perch was a tall and slight
young man with a happy laugh and
an air which suggested 10 Sabre,
after puzzlement. that his spirit was
only allghted in his body as a bird
alights and swings upon a twig, not
engrossed in his body.
sabre was extraordinarily attract
ed by the devotion between the pair.
Their interests. their habits, their
thoughts were as widely sundered as
their years. vet each was wholly an
completely bound up In the other.
When Sabre sat and talked with
Young Perch Of an evening, old Mrs.
Perch would sit with them. next her
son. In an armchair asleep. At in
tervals she would start awake and
say querulously. Now 7 suppose I
must he driven on 10 bed"
Young Perch not pausinE In what
he might ~ saying. would stretch q
hand and lay II on his mothers.
Mrs. Perch. as though Freddie's
hand touched away enormous wearl-
ness and care, would sigh restfully
and sleep again.
II gave Sabre extraordinary SEN
sations.
n he had been asked to name his
particular friends these were the
friends he would have named. He
saw them constantly. Infrequently
he saw another. Quite suddenly she
came back into his life.
Mona returned into his life.
PART TWO
MONA
CHAPTER
sabre. ambling his bicycle along
the pleasant lanes towards Tidbor-
ough one fine morning in the early
prn,nner OF 1912 was met in his