The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-03-29

Sabre has 9 comfortable position
In the firm 81 Fortune. East and
Sabre, a church and school supply
house The firm Is dominated by
Rev sehastianEFortune chief share
holder.
60 ON With THE STORY.
III,
Sabre had been promised fill
partnership by Mr.: Fortune. He de.
sired very greatly. The appor.
tionnient pf duties In the establish.
ment was that Sabre managed the
publishing department. Twynlng su.
peryised the factory and workshops
wherein the ecclesiastical and scho-
lettlc furniture was produced, and
Fortune supervised his two prInci.
pals and every least employe and
smallest detftlt OF all the business.
IN iat2Asabre felt that he had now
brought the publishing into line
With the established departments.
He had emphasized the FIRMS repu-
talon In this activity by the con.
siderahls success that attended two
textbooks bearing Zone In collab.
otattonD his own name. Sabre ant
owens Elementary Mathematics
and gsabre's Modern History"
Tine tributes with which this slim
history primer of one hundred and.
fifty pages for eighteen pence had
been greeted inspired Sabre towards
q mich holder work. on which the
early summer OF 1912 saw him be.
ginning and into which-he found
himself able to pour in surprising
vollmethoughts and feelings which
he had scarcely known TO. be his
until the pen and the paper began
to attract them, The title he had
conceiyedsa alone stirred them In his
mind and drew them from it as a
magnett stirs and draws iron fllings.
eEngiahd.g Just England"
CHAPTER vi.
/.
Mabel called Sabre's school text.
hooks sthose lesson books" After
she had thus referred TO them two.
or three times he gave up trying
to interest her in them. The ex
preston hurt him, but when he
thought upon It he reasoned with
himself that he had no cause to be
hurt
Later he never mentioned ENG.
iandp TO her. But he most desper-
ately wanted to talk about It to
someone.
he was not actively aware OF It,,
hut what, in those years, he came to.
crave for as a starved child Graves
food was sympathy Of mind.
He found 1t, in Penny Green, with
what Mabel called "the most extra
ordinary people" What You can
find In that Mr.. Fargus and that
young Perch and his everlasting
mother she used to say, Il simply
cannot imagine"
II.
Nj. Fargus, who lived next door
down the Green, was a gray little
man. with gray whiskers and always
in gray suit. He had a large and
Very red wife and six thin and rath.
q yellowish daughters.
And there were the Perches-
sYoung Perch and that everlasting
old mother OF his" as Mabel called
them!
Sabre always spoke OF them as
Young Rod, Pole or Perch" ant
old Mrs. Rod, Pole or Perch" This
was ont OF what Mabel called his
childish and incomprehensIble habit
OF giving nicknames-High links
md Low links the outstanding ard
neyer.forgotten example OF It..
Mrs! Perch was a fragile little
body whose life should have been
ana.couid have been divided be.
tween her bed and a bath chair.
She was intensely weak.slghtad.
but she never could find her
classes; and she kept locked every
thing that would lock, but she never
could find her keys. She held OF
al acquaintances by the rigid han
he Of that" before their names,
hut she was very fond OF !"that Mr.,
SABRE and Sabre returned Il great
sftecdon for her.
Young Perch was a tall and slight
young man with q happy laugn and
m air which suggested to Sabre,
after puzzlement that his spirit was
only atghted in his body rs & bird
alIghts and swings upon a twig, not
engrossed In his body.
Sabre was extraordinarily attract
ed by the devotion between the pair.
Their interests. their habits, their
thoughts were as widely suniercd
NJ their years, vet each vas wholly
ard completely bound up in the
other When Sabre sat and talked
with Young Perch OF an evening, old
Mrs Perch would sit VITA them,
ne&t her son,sin IN armchair asleep.
AZ intervals she would start awake
and say ENORMOUSLY, Now I snp-
pose ! must be driven on to bed"
Young Perch, not pauslng IN
what he might, be saying. would
stretch q hand and lay It on niS
mothers. Mrs. Perch, az though
Freddfess hand touched away enor.
NOUS WEAKNESS and care. would
sigh restfully and sleep again,
gave Sabre extraordinary sen.
sations.
II heghad been asked to name his
pattjcnlar friends these were the
frietds4 he would have named. He
say them constantly, Iutrequcntlv
hesBaw another. Quite suddenly she
camesback into his life.
Mona returned into his life.
PART TWo
Fra MONA