South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-04-12
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sabre did not know how over
wrought he was until ne was at
home again and come % Mabel seat
Cd az breakfast
Mabel looked up from her break
fast Well + do think"
This was the beginning Of g. lie
felt himself digging his nails into
the palms Of his hands. I've been
up with old Mrs Perch. 7 was with
her when she died It's upset me
Bit"
II don't wonder. II Won ask me. ]
think IT. was very extraordinary YOUR
being there II you ask me- I think
30 was very funny OF that Mss
Bright sending for you az that hour
Of the night Whyever should she
send for you OF all people ."
p was their greatest friend
yes. 7 know YOU always liked
them. But YOU couldn't be Of any
use ] must say Z do think people
are very funny sometimes II Miss
Bright had done the right thing. as
we are their nearest neighbors. she
would have sent and asked me IF I
could let one OF the maids go over
and be with her. Then you could
have gone up, too. IL you'd wished
and could have come back again. I
don't think she had any right 10
send for you"
He had sat down and was about TO
pour himself out some tea He put
down the teapot and got up. Look
here, do me a favor. They're dead,
both OF them. Don't say anything
more about them. Don't mention
the subject again. For Gods sake"
He went out OF the house and got
his bicycle and set out for the office.
Al the top Of the Green he passed
young Pinnock. the son OF Pinnock's
Stores. Some patch OF color about
young Pinnock caught his eye The
color was a vivid red crown on a
khaki brassard on the young mans
arm The badge Of the recruits en-
rolled under the Derby enlistment
scheme. He dismounted. "Hullo. Pin
mock How on earth did you get
that armIet? thought you'd been
rejected about 40 times?"
Young PinnOck grinned hugely.
Don't matter II you've got both feet
IN. or head and shoulders neither.
over at Chovensbury today, 1Ir
Sabre. There's such a rush OF chaps
20 get in before they make conscripts
or EN- they're fair letting anybody
through"
Sabre turned his front wheel 10
the Chovensbury road.
CHAPTER VIII
Life. when Il takes so giant a
hand IN its ruppet show as TO up
turn a cauIdron or world war upon
the puppets, may be imagined bit
ing its fingers in some chagrin at
the little result in particular in
stances. As vegetation beneath snow.
so individual development beneath
universal calamity. Nature persists:
Individual life persists.
Sabre was called up in his Derby
Glass within eight weeks OF his en-
rollment-at the end OF February.
1916. He was nearly two years in
the war: but his ultimate encounter
with life awaited him, and was met.
at Penny Green. II might have been
reached precisely as It was reached
without agency Of the war, Ger
tainly without participation fin t..
OF the interval only those few events
ultimately mattered which had con-
uection with his life at home They
seemed I'm the night Of the war tran
silent as falling stars; they proved
themselves lodestars Of his destiny
RE first went 10 France. in one Of
the long string or Service battalions
that had sprung out Of the Pinks.
In the June following his enlistment.
Mabel had decide 10 get a raid
compartment was rather lonely I'm
some ways-and she had arranged to
have "that girl. Miss Bright" sabre.
reading her letter. exclaimed aloud.
BY love that's good. 7 am glad "
Ard he thought. Jolly little Emei
That's splendid" He somehow liked
immensely the idea Of imagining
Bright Fife about the house. He
thought. ct wish she could have
been in long ago when 7 was there.
To would have made a difference.
Someone between us We used 20