The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-28
CONTINUED From Yesterday
PART FOUR
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
CHAPTER 1

said HapgOoa-that garrliious Hap
eo,d. solicitor. who first IN this book
spoke o. sabre TO a mutual friend
said Hapgood. seated IN the com.
Portable study Of his flat. 70 that
same friend. staying the night;
We'll. now. cid man. about sabre.
wen. tell you rs a funny business
IA dashed funny business. the posi-
ton old puEziehead SABRE has got
himself into. OF course YOU. with
,.sour coarse and sordid instincts. viii
ESay IT'S just what u appears 20 he
md a very cid story at that. Whereas
IL me. with my csqul=itely delicate
Isusccptlbnities. Ne. don't throw
that. old man. Sorry III be seft
Gus What / want Just TO kick OF
With Is that you know as well as I
% that I've never been the sort OF
chap who wept he knows not why:
i've never nursed a tame gaxelle or
any % that sort Of stuff In fact.
i've got about as much sentiment I'm
me as there Is IN pound OF lard
But when l see this poor beggar
(4NIF - ItE - AAWNs AAA1 WIN 4 NEsE
hisn talk as he talked 20 me about
his position last week. and whom
see how grey and N he looks. hob
bling about on hts old stick. we'll,
tel you. old man. get-weii. look
here. here II Is from the Let Go.
Look here, this Is April. April.
1915 BY all that's fiunnlsh--dashed
nearly four years OF this Internal
var. Wei. Old Sabre got Knocked
out in France just about five months
ago. hack In November lie eopped
il twice shoulder and knee. shoui.
DIR nothing much knee pretty bad.
Thought they'd have 90 take his leg
OF. one time. Thought better OF II.
thanks BE-: patched him up di-.
charged him from tho Army. and
sent him home--very groswy. only
knss able TO put the bad leg TO the
u -ound. erufches. and going 20 Be
rick and bit % limp all his life
poor old Puzziehead Think yourself
lucky you were Conscientious OBJ.
iector. old man. on. damn you.
that hurt
VERY we'll That's a. he was
when first saw him again. Just
making first attempts In the stick
and limp stage. poor begEar. That
was back In February. Early tn Feb.
rusry. Mark the date. a. they say
IN the detective stories. can't re.
member what the date was. bu,
never you mind You just mark IT,
Early In February. two months ago.
There was good old me down In lid
nerough on business-good Old mo
* the heavy London solicitor IN
~ weeial town--they always put
down x.sd carpet for me at the sta
ton. yc<sknow. rather decent. don't
YOU think7-and remembering about
old Sabre having been wounded and
discharged. blew into Fortune. Eas,
and Sabrc's business waSn't with
them this tinnel for new. Of him
-'Cf course he wasn't there saw
cid Fortune and the man Twynlnx
and found them in reTnrd 20 sabr.
as a maiden aunt over a married sis
tsr's new dress Old Fortune booking
Ike a walking pulpit in a thunder.
etoud--f should say he'd make about
four % me round the equator: and
mind you. a chap stopped me in the
street the other day and offered me
job AZ Beefeater outside a moving.
picture show. yes. fact. was wretch
ediy annoyed about it--and the man
.Twyuing with a lean and hungry
Took like cassius. or was Il Judas Is
eariotY Wen. like Cassius out Of
lob or Judas Tscariot in the middle Of
one. anyway. That's Twyning's sort.
Chap never cottoned onto a bit
They'd precious little 90 say about
Sabre. Sort OF handed out the Inn.
preston that he'd been out OF the
business 20 long that really they
weren't much In touch with his do
'ngs. Rather rotten. thought II.
seeing that the poor beggar had done
his bit IN the war and done II pretty
thoroly too. They said that really
they hardly knew when he'd be fit
20 get back 20 work again: no; just
yet awhile. anyway. And. yes, he
was at home over az Penny Green.
SO far az they knew--in the Kind Of
tone that they didn't know much and
cared less: AZ least. that was the i'm.
preston they gave me. only my
fancy. daresay. a. the girl said
when she thought the soldier sat
bif too close 70 her In the tram.
Wei. I'd nothing 10 do tn my
train pulled out In the afternoon. so
hoped It over TO Penny Green Car
den Home on the railway and walked
down 10 old Sabre's 10 scoop n free
lunch of him. Found him a bit