The Bismarck tribune., 1922-04-03

CHAPTER, 4 ssr
TO take Mark Sabre at the age of
'thirty-four, and in the year 1912, and
at the place Penny Green is to neces-
state looking back s, little towards
the time of; his marriage in 1904, but
happens o,find him in tgood light for
observation Enc c6untering him here
abouts, one,i9who had'fsl1ared school
days with him attfhis preparatory
school SC. much as twenty-four years
back would have found matter for rec
ognition.f6 '2BT3"dS adt ~. "f
A usefully tgarrulous person, one
Hapgood, aNsolicitor; found much
Whom .do9you think Iomet yester-
day? Old,Sa'bre!1 You remember old
Sabre at old tWickamote's? -. Yes,
that's the chap. Used to call him
Puzzlehead, remember Because he
used to screw up his forehead over
things old Wickamote or any of the
other masters said and sort of drawl
out, We'll, I don't see that, sir :. !.
Yes, rather! .. And then that
other expression of his. Just the
opposite. When old Wickamote or
some one had landed him, or all OF
us, with some dashed punishment,
and we were gassing about it, used
to screw up his nut in the same way
and say, Well, what does he mean.
you ass?' and he'd start gassing some
rot till someone said, Good lord.
fancy sticking up for master! And
old Puzzlehead would say, You
sickening fool, I'm mot sticking up
for him. I'm only saying he's right
from how he looks at it and it's no
good saying he's wrong. =. !. Ha!
Funny days .s. Yes, l. met
Eyes, in his office I saw him {. >.
He's in good business down there at
Tidborough Dashed good. Fortune,
East and Sabre ;. Never heard
of them? All, we'll, that shows you're
not a pillar of the Church, old son.
II you took the faintest interest in
your particular place Of worship, o.,
in any Anglican place of worship,
you'd know that whenever you want
anything for the Church from hymn
book or a hassock or pew r.
a pulpit or screen or spire you &C
to Fortune, East and Sabre, It'd
borough Similarly in the scholastic
line, anything from birch rod to {
desk-Fortune, East and Sabre, by
return and the best. No, they're tho
great, the great, church and school
furnishing people.
Married? Oh, yes, he's married
Has been some time, believe, though
they've no kids. l had lunch at his
place one time l was down Tid-
borough way. Now there's a place
you ought to go to paint one of you'
pictures Where he lives-Penny
Green. Picturesque, quaint if ever a
Eyes, you go down there and have
a lock, with your sketch-book. Old
Sabrell love to see you !. His
wife? ... Oh, very nice, distinctly
nice. Pretty woman, very. Some
how l didn't think quite the sort o
woman for old Puzzlehead. Didn't
appear to have the'remotcst interest
in any of the things he was keen
about and he seemed bit fed with
her sort Of talk. Hers was all gossip
all about the people there and what
a rum crowd they were. Devifish
funny, l thought, some OF her stories.
But old Sabre-well, suppose he'd
heard 'em before Still, there was
something about the two
of them. You know that sort of-sort
of stiffish feeling you sometimes feel
in the air with two people who don't
quite click"
CHAPTER II
Thus, by easy means OF the gar
rulous Hapgood, appear persons,
places, institutions; lives, homes. ac-
tivities; the web and the tangle and
the amenities of minute fragment OF