The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-21
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,.s,,asc and came forward "EhS
So. I'm afraid wasn't listening"
.n,r excellent sabre has offered
s,,u.ea for enlistment and been 70
jscsed
-uxninx said "HaVe you. by Jove'
~, scoa. What bad luck being
armed down. What was IT,
sabre moved across TO his room.
-HcArs.-
WAS II. rcaiiy' Ry Jovc, and YOU
,..s M enough. too. old man. Fancy
-, Fancy-Joliy sporting Of you
r.nrv-Oh, / say, old man. do let's
~, a hook at your paper II you've
q, on you. want TO see one %
,Acse things
sabre was at his door. What pa
rrf-
N, never seen enc. only II you've
rcs Il on you"
4 haven't 60, one"
No, got onel You must have, cid
nan
well. haven't. l was seen pri.
~,atsly. I'm rather friendly with
,hem Up at the barracks"
oh. YES. Of course. Wonder they
ssnr give you a paper. tho"
Wen. they didn't"
quite SO. old man. Quite so. Fun
NJ. that's all"
ssbrc paused on the threshold lie
r.rfectly well understood the villain.
aus implcAtion. Vile. intolerahlei
m, Of What service TO take IL upr-
70 hear Twynlng's laugh and his
nv dear old chap. as II should
,hlnk such thing He passed into
~ room. The thought he had had
wAleh rad arrested his anger at MFR.
rersunes hints. revealing this Incl
ant IN another light. was They
vans to get rid % me-
v
IN August. the anniversary month
the war. he again offered himself
tr enlistment and was again reject,
a but this time after a longer
sutiny: the standard was not at its
frst height Of perfection. Earnshaw.
felonel RAttray. all the remnant OF
i fcrmer friends. were gone to the
tont. sabre submitted himself thru
ns oratnary channels and this time
rceived what Twyning had called
Is paper" He did not show IL 20
rwynsng. nor mention either TO him
= 10 Mr. Fortune that he had tried
.rain. Again most creditahie OF
5ou. my dear sabre" Again. have
goa. thof BY love. that's sporting
A. yca. Did they give you r paper
4 us time. old MANI No. Not
rach. Feeling as he felt about tho
szr. acuteiy aware as he was % the
rar,ners' interest in the matter. that.
b. fsit. could not be borne
Bat on this occasion he told Mabel
IRE war had not altered his rela
tors with Mabel He had had the
ts-lns that if ought to bring them
sinser together. 10 make her more
Susceptible to his attempts 20 do the
rxht thing by her. But Il did not
wing them closer together. the Ac-
ssnulating months. the impercept.
niy Increasing stranxeneSs and ten
snn and high pitch OF the war at
rosphere Increased. rather. her sus-
nptibility 10 those characteristics %
- which were most impossible to
Der he felt things with draught too
deep and with burth-n too cnpacious
for he navtxabEilty Of her mind; and
here vas an ever present thing. this
Dn her phrasel most unsrstlfng war.
shieh must be taken tin her view
e. a high. brisk note that was as
impossible 10 him as was his own at.
tfuds towards the war 10 her, The
tfsect Of the war. tn this result. was
~ 70 sunder them on a new dimen-
nor; whereas formerly he had
barnsd not 10 Join with her on sub
tsefs his feelings about which he had
been taught to shrink from expos
fnz before her. now the world con-
t1insd but one subject. there was no
enoice and there was no upshot but
clash Of incompstlbility His feelings
we're daily forced TO the ordeal. his
tsas daily exasperated her. The
path ne had set himself was not 70
mind her abuse Of his feelings. and
he tried with some success not TO
End: but On his own expression.
hruoding in his minds soIltudsl they
Red her and he had nothing else to
effer her; they riled her and he had
~ himself not 10 riIe her. II was
Ne desiring 10 ease a queruIous In
valid and having in the dispensary