Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-04-10

cabinet without speaking.
Mr.. Fortune cleared his throat.
"Ah, Sabre. 1--WE were Just saying
what a very deeply unfortunate thing
IL is that none of us principals are
of an age to do the right thing by
the firm by joining the army"
Yes. it's a pity" Sabre said.
81 am glad you agree. / knew you
would. For myself, of course, I'm
out of the question. Twyning here is
getting on for forty and of course
he's given his son to the war. You
of course, you're married, too. and
there we arei 1t does, as you say.
seem a great pity"
Sabre spoke very slowly. Most
furious anger was about to burst
when there had suddenly come to its
control the thought, These two
aren't getting at you for any love of
England, for any patriotic S
Theirs is another reason" He said
very slowly. 81 never told you per-
haps l ought to nave told you at the
time. that / was refused for the
army some while ago."
Twyning spun around from the
bookcase. Really? By Jove, and you
look fit enough, too, old man. Fancy
Jolly sporting of you. Fancy-Oh,
I say, old man, do let's have a look
at your paper II you've got it on
you"
Sabre was at his door. what pa
PERI"
"Your rejection paper. old a
I've never seen one"
II haven't got one"
Not got one! You must have, old
man."
well. I haven't. 1 was seen pri-
vately. I'm rather friendly with
them up at the barracks"
"Oh. yes, of course. Wonder they
didn't give you a paper, though"
Sabre paused on the threshold. He
perfectly well understood the viii
famous implication. Vile, intolera-
BILE! But of what service to take 1t
up?
In August, the anniversary month
of the war, he again offered himself
for enlistment and was again re-
jected, but this time after a longer
scrutiny: the standard was not at
its first height of perfection.
He was enormously cast down by
his rejection. When he got back
that night he went straight in to
her. 81 say. they've rejected me
They won't have me-" His face was
working. IT'S that cursed heart"
She slightly puckered her brows.
"Oh-d' you know. for the minute ]
couldn't think what on earth you
were talking about. Were you re-
jected? Well. / must say I'm glad"
He said fatty. "Why are your"
well. do just imagine what you'd
look like in private soldiers cloth
ing!" She laughed very heartily
again.
He turned away.
CHAPTER vi
Up in his room he began a long
letter to Mona, pouring out to her
all his feelings about this second re-
lection. He was writing to her
and hearing from her-regularly
and frequently now. 1t was his
only vent in the oppression of these
frightful days. She said that 1t was
hers. too.
In her letters she always men
toned Tony. She wrote to Tony
every day, she told him; and there
were few of her letters but men
toned a parcel of some kind sent to
her husband. Tony never wrote.
She once or twice said, without
any comment, But he is writing
often to Mrs. Stanley and Lady
Grace Heddon and Sophie Basildon
and l hear bits of him from them
and know he is keeping well. OF
course l pretend TO them that their
news is stale to me. l feel most
frightfully that the best thing every
woman can do in this frightful time
is to do all she can for her man out
there; and Tony's mine. When this
is all over-oh, Marko, is it ever
going to be over?-things will hurt
again; but while he's out there the
old things are dead and Tony's mine
and England's-my man for Eng
land: that is my thought; that is my
pride: that is my prayer"
And a few lines farther on, And
he's so splendid. OF course you can
imagine hsSg utterly splendid he is.
Lady Warner, his colonePs
wife, told me yesterday her husband
sans he's brave beyond anything she
could imagine. He said-she's given
me his letter-the man have picked
up from home this story about II
gels at Mons and are beginning to
believe they saw them. Tybar says
he hopes the angels were near him,
because he thought he was in hell.
the particular bit he got into, and
he thinks it must be good for angels,
charging for their minds, to know
what hell is like! AS a matter of
fact, Tybar himself is nearer to the
superhuman than anything / saw
knocking about at Mons. His daring
and his GOODNESS and his example
are a byword in a battalion COM
posed, my dear. with the solitary
exception of the writer. entirely OF
heroes. In sticky places Tybar rs
the most wonderful thing that ever
happened
Cant you imagine him. Marko?'
On the following day Tid~borough.
opening its newspapers, shook hands
with itself in all its houses, shops
and Offices on its own special and
most glorious v. Cord Tybar.
Tybar's v. C. was the first thing
Sabre spoke of to Mona when. a
fortnight later, she came down and
he went up to her at Northrepps in
the afternoon. Its brilliant gallantry.
rendered so vivid to him by the In
timacy with which he could see that
thrice attractive figure engaged in
its performance. stirred him most
deeply. He had by heart every line
of its official record in the restrained
language of the Gazette.
The left flank OF the posi- |
ton was insecure, and the post.
when taken over, was i'll prepared
for defense When the bat
was suffering very heavy
casualties from a 77mm. field gun
at very close range, Captain Lord
rushed forward under intense
machine u fire and succeeded in