Evening journal., 1922-04-22
Continued From Our last Issue.


He stopped his swinging arm.
holding his hand above the flames.
He that dwelleth in love dweneth
in God and God in him; for God is
love" He opened his fingers. and
the crumpled letter fell and was
consumed. He pushed himself up
from the mantelpiece and turned
and went over TO Twyning and stood
over him again. He patted Twyn-
ing's heaving shoulders. There,
there, Twyning. Bad luck. Bad
luck Hard. Hard. Bear up,
Twyning. Soldiers death.
Finest death Died for his
country Fine boy
Soldiers death Bad luck.
Bad luck. Twyning q"
: Twyning. inarticulate. pushed up
his hand and felt for sabre's hand
and clutched it and squeezed It con-
vulsively.
Sabre said again. There. there.
Twyning Hard. Hard. Fine death
Brave boy He
disengased his hand and turned and
walked very slowly from the room.
He went along the passage. past
Mr.. Fortunes door towards that
which had been his own. still walk
ing very slowly and with his hand
against the wall TO steady himself.
He felt deathiy III
He went into his own room. un-
entered by him for many months
now his own room no more. and
dropped heavily into the familiar
desk. He put his arms out along
the desk and laid his head upon
them. Oh. cumulative touchl He
began TO be shaken with onsets Of
emotion, az with sobs. Oh. cumula-
tive touch
The communicating door opened
and Mr.. Fortune appeared. He start
ed az Sabre in astounded indigna-
zion. "sabrel You herel must say
II must admit"
Sabre olutched up his dry and ter
rible sobbing. He turned swiftly TO
Mr.. Fortune and put his hands on
the arms OF the chair 20 rise.
A curious look came upon his face.
He said. II say. I'm sorry. I'm
sorry. IL can't get up"
Mr.. Fortune doomed. Cant get
up"
II say-No. I say. I think some
rhings happened to me. I can't get
mp"
The door opened. Hapsood came
IN, and Mona.
sabra said. II say. Hapgood-
Nona-Nonal I say Mona. 1 think
something's happened TO me. I can't
get up"
A change came over his face. He
collapsed back In the chair.
"Marko! Markoi"
She who thus cried ran forward
and threw herself on her knees be-
side him. her hands stretched up 70
him.
Hapgood turned furiously on Mt
Fortune. "Go for a doctori 60 Ike
hell! sabrel sabre. old man"
"Hemorrhage on the brain" said
the doctor. ". Well. II there's
no more effusion Of blood. You quite
understand me. I say II there ISM
Has he been through any
kind OF strain7"
Trouble" said Hapgood. "Straln.
He's been in hell-right in
When he was removed and they
had left him. Mona said to Hapgood
as thev came down the steps OF the
county Hospital. There was thing
ne was 80 fond or Mr.. Hapgood
o Wind.
II Winter comes. can Spring be far
=. ...,. ,,o,,- rbnre must
be n turning now. II ne dies
still. a turning"
CHAPTER VIII
Haugood across the coffee cups
the lioueur glasses and the cigarets
wapred n solemn head at that friend
of his. newly returned from a Ions
visit 10 America. He wagged a
solemn head:
shes got her divorce, that wife
Of his
"I've told YOU in my letters how
he went on after that collapse, thai
brain hemorrhage. told YOU we
got Ormond Give on 10 him. Give
was a friend Of that Lady Tybar
She was with Sabre all the time
Pretty we'll every day ia look In
Every day Ormond Give would
come. Time and again we'd stand
around the bed we three-watchlng
Impenctrahle and extraordinary bust
ness! There was his body. alive
breathing. His mind. his conscious
ness. his ego. his self. his whatever
YOU like 10 call it-not there
Away. Absent. Not in that place.
Yesterday Ormond Give said
Sabre might be cautiously approach
. ed about things. For three week.
past Gives not let us-me or tina
Lady Tybar-see him. YESTERDAY
we were permitted again; and
took steps TO be there first. 'Noi
know you're wife's divorced you
old man. He said painfully, Yes
] know. I remember that
"Of course Il will come back q
him I'm time that the business hadn'
happened before his illness. In tim
he'll begin TO grope after detailel
recollection. and he'll begin to real
ize that he never did go through
and that Il must have happene
p while he was n. There'u be an
other thing. too. He'll find his wifi
has married again Yes. facti
heard in a roundabout way tina
/ she's going 20 marry an old neigh
Dor Of theirs chap called Majo
Mnlet, Hopscotch Miuet. old Sabr
used 10 call him. However. that
not the thing-that will have hap