Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-03-27
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To take Mark sabre at the e of
thlrty-four, and in the year 1912, n
attne place Penny Green Is to neces-
STATE ooking back a little towards the
time of his marriage in 1904, but hap
pens TO n him in good light for
observation. Encountering him here
abouts, one who had shared school
days with him at his preparatory
schoo so much as twenty-four years
Jack would have found matter for
recognition. /.
Hapgood, a solicitor, found much.
n 10 you think I met yester-
day? Old Sabre! You remember old
sabre at Old Wickmote's? Yes.
mats h chap. Used to all him
Puzzlehead remember? Because he
used to screw up his forehead over
things old Wickmete or any Of the
otner masters said and sort OF drawl
out, Well, l don't see that, sir. . .
Yes rather And then that other
expression of his. Just the opposite.
When old Wickamote or someone had
landed him, or all Of us, with some
dashed punishment, and we were gas
ing about it, used to screw his nut in
the same way and say, We'll, what
does he mean, You ASST and he'd start
casing some rot till omeone said,
'Good lord, fancy sticking up for q
master! And old Puzzlehead would
say, You. sickening fool, I'm not stick
ing 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 -. Yes, l met hin -.
Yes, in his office 1 saw him T.. .
He's in a good business down there at
Iidborough. Dashed good. Fortune,
East and Sabre . Never heard Of
them? All, well, hal shows you're
not q pillar of the church, old son.
II you o the faintest interest in
your particular place of worship, or
in any Anglican place Of worship.
you'd know that whenever you want
anything for the church from a hymn
book or a hassock or a pew to a pulpit
or a screen or a spire o go to For
tune, East and Sabre. Tdborough.
Similarly in the scholastic line, any
thing from a birch rod to a desk
Fortune, East and Sabre, by return
and the best. No, they're the great,
the great, church and scho%ol-furnish-
ing people.
Married? Oh, yes, he's married.
Has been some time, 1 believe, though
they've nc kids. l had lunch at his
place one time I was down Tidborough
way. Now there's a place o ought
to go to paint OF your pictures-wherc
he lives-Penny Green. Picturesque,
quaint II ever q place vas
Yes, o go down there and have
a look. with your. sketch-book. Old
Sabre'l love to see you His wife?
49,. Oh, very nice, distinctly nice.
Pretty woman, very. Somehow I
didn't think quite the sort of, woman
for old Puzzlehead. Didn't appear TO
have the remotest interest in any Of
fkn thivoc h4 rryo D~1~ .h~,,t o~l hA
seemed a bit fed with her sort Of
talk. Hers was all gossip-all about
the people there and what a rum
crowd they were. Devilish funny. I
thought, some Of her stories. But old
Sabre-well, l suppose he'd heard EN-
before. Still, there vas something
about the two of them. You know
that sort of-sort OF stifish 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-
t~ivities; the web and the. tangle and
the amenities of a minute fragment
OF human existence. Life. An odd
business. Into life we come, myster-
iously arrived. are set on our feet n
we go : functioning more or less in
effectively, passing through permuta-
tons and combinations; meeting the
successive events, SHOCKS, surprises
of hours, days years; becoming en-
quilted, submerged, foundered by
them; all of us on the same adven-
ture yet retaining nevertheless each
his own individuality, as swimmers
carrying each his understandable bur-