Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1922-04-14
Continued From Our Las, IssueJ

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I, would have been uncommoniy jol.
~ 10 have had Bright I:ffic as compan.
ion ON the walks. and once or twice
lie did. But Mabel showed very clearly
that this was very far from having
hci approval aud on the second coca.
sion said 20. There was the slightest
possible little tlff about Il: and thence
lorward-the subject having been
'pcncd--therc were frequent little PAS
ages over Efflc. arising always cut
Of his doing what Mabel called for.
,yer sticking up Tor her" How fire.
duent they were. and how much thay
,nnoycd Mabel, he did not realize until,
in the last week OF his leave, and IA
he midst of sticking up for her scene.
Mabel surprisingly announced. well.
anyway. I'm sick and tired of the girl,
snd I'm sick and tired OF having you al.
Mays sticking up for her. and I'm 10.
10 get rid IT her-tUmorrow."
But. Mabel-what viii her people
Think
I'm sure don't care what thay
think. II you're ~ concerned about the |
precious girl. III tell her mother that
was going 10 make other arrange
u. onts Ia any cas- and that as this was
your last week we thought we'd like TO
bc alone together. WIN that satisfy
ycug"
Il hope II will satisfy them. And I |
hope very much indeed that you don't |
du H."
WI
But she did do II. ON the following
day Fife left. Sabre. pretending to
know nothing about IL. went Tor long
walk all day. When he returned Fife
Tas gone. he said nothing. Her name
vas not again mentioned between him
and Mabel. II happened that only the
reference to her sudden departure In
which he was concerned was with
Twyning.
Setting out on his return 90 France
iS orders were ~ Join fus.licr bat.
TALON. reporting TO 34th Diyision--he
'ound Twyning ON the platform at It'd.
'oiough station buying a paper.
"hullo. old man" said Twyning
Just Off ! say. old man, old man. old
Pright's very upset about Effle getting
the sack from your place like that.
How was IT,
Twyning was looking keenly al him.
But a bit sudden. wasn't IL, I mean
To say. ] thought you were ON such
''londly terms with the girl. Why. only
=. couple of DAYS before she left saw
you with her having tea In the Cloistcr
~ rooms'
Yes. I remember; We were waiting
| Cur my wife
oh. yes. waiting FOR Your wife, were
Iou7 Twyning appeared TO he thinking
Wen. that's what ! mean. old man.
she's seeing YOU of. I suppose"
NO. she's not. Sbc's not too well.
Got a rotten cold"
Twyning stared again. oh. I'm sor.
~, old man. Well. youIl want to be
getting In. I'll tell old Bright that
you say about Fife. quite under.
stand SEEMED bit funny at first.
that's all. Goodby. old man. jolly good
| luck"
lie put out his hand and squeezed
sabrc's IN his intensely friendly grip:
'ud destiny put out Its hand and add.
81 another and vital hour TO Sabre's
ultimate encounter with life.
VIII
His leave ended with the one thing
utterly unexpected and flagrsntly I'm.
possible.
Arriving in' London about nine. he
stood ON a street refuge 10 let by a
Sab coming out OF the station. As Il
! lasscd he saw IL communicative
women; and one saw him-Nona. OF all
Incredible things. Mona.
She stopped the cab and he hurried
after a.
"Nona'm
"Marko.
She said, Tin hurrying to Fusion TO
catch train. Tony's mother In with
me
How funny her voice was. Mona. you
look 81. You sound III. What's up? Is
inything wrong"
She said. oh. Marko. Tony's killed"
Mona
That came careening head.
long. n though malignity. bitter and
wanton. had looscd savage bolt.
On the following morning ne crossed
to France. there TO take up again that
strange identity IN whose OCCUPANCY
! his own self was held In abeyance,
waiting his return. Seven months
""ssed before he returned 10 that walt.
ing identity and he. resumed Il then
permanently-sionc with the war. The
tremendous fighting Of lgi5-his par.
tcipation In the war--his tenancy of
| the strange personality caught up IN
the enormous machinery of Il ALL
ended for him In the great break
through the Hindcnburg line In Novem.
Der. ON top of a recollection % sudden
hook. then of whirling giddiness, In
which be was conscious II some enor.
nous violence going ON but could not
leel it-like sss he afterwards Thought
beginning 10 come To In the middle OF
tooth extraction under gas--on the
top OF these and Of extraordinary things
and scenes and people he could not
OF all understand came someone saying:
Well. it's goodby to the war for you,
Old man"