Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-03-29

uiilCA CiiNSo VI loSlS nav SH5o~SN
TO
MARK SABRE that he and his wife
MABEL fail to understand one an
other. After eight years of mar
ried life he knows that his de-
lights in poetry, in whimsical hu-
NOR and in democratic ideals are
not shared by the prosaic n
snobbish Mabel.
Sabre has q comfortable position
I'm the firm of Fortune, East and
Sabre, a church and school supply
house. The firm is dominated by
Rev. Sebastian Fortune. chief share
holder.
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Sabre had beer promised full part
nership by Mr.. Fortune. He desired
1t very greatly. The apportionment
of duties in the establishment was
that Sabre managed the publishing
department. Twyning supervised the
factory and workshops wherein the
ecclesiastical and scholastic furni-
ture was produced, and Fortune
supervised his two principals and
every least employe and smallest
detail of all the business.
In 1912 Sabre felt that he had now
brought the publishing into line
with the established departments.
He had emphasized the firms repu-
tation in this activity by the consid-
cradle. success that attended two
textbooks bearing Cone in %collabor-
ation) his own name. sabre and
Owens Elementary Mathematics
and "Sabre's Modern History"
The tribute with which this slim
history primer of one hundred and
fifty pages for eighteen pence had
been greeted inspired Sabre towards
a much holder work, on which the
early summer of 1912 saw him be-
ginning and into which he found
himself able to pour in surprising
volume thoughts and feelings which
he had scarcely known to be ms
until the pen and the paper began
to attract them. The title he had
conceived alone stirred them IN ms
mind and drew them from it as a
magnet stirs and draws iron filings
"England." Just England
CHAPTER VI
III Mabel called Sabre's school text
u hooks those lesson books. Alter
she had thus referred to them two
or three times he gave up trying 10
interest her in them. h express
Nor 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
land to her. But he most desper-
ately wanted to talk about 1t u
someone.
He was moi actively aware. of It,
but what, in those years, he came to
1900 Sow, &c "a starving child xclHNeS
food was sympathy of mind. 80,
He found it, in Penny Green, with
vhat Mabel called 1.-THE most extra
ordinary people, What you can
md in that Mr.. Fargus and that
: 09nmSsTefTh and his everlasting
mother" she used to say, II simply
cannot imagine
Mr. Fargus, who lived next door
down the Green, was a gray llttle
man with gray whiskers ana alWass
In ! gray suit. He had a large ana
very red wife and six thin and rather
vellowish daughters.
nj there were the Perches-
"Young Perch and that everlasting
old mother Of his as Mabel calied
them.
Sabre always spoke of them as
.youne Rod, Pole or Perch ana
aOld Mrs. Rod, Pole or Perch" rms
was o,lt Of what Mabel called ms
childish and incomprehensible habit
of giving nicknames-High Jlnks
and Low Jinks the outstanding ana
never-forgotten example OF II. -
Mrs. Perch was a fragile httie
| hodv whose life should have peeh
and rould have beer divided between
her bed and a bath chair.
She was intensely we~ak-sighted'
Int she never could ind hef
glasses: and she kept locked every
thing that would Jock, but she never
could find her keys. She held OIL
all acauaintances by the rigid IAN
die of that before their names
but she was very fond of "that MI;
Sabre" and Sabre returned a great
affection for her.
GUN Perch was a tall and slight
young man with a happy laugh anu
an air which suggested TO oapre'
after puzzlement, that his spirit was
only alighted in his body as a pro
alights and swings upon a tWls' ho'
~engrossed in his body.
Sabre was extraordinarily attract
: al nv the devotion between the pair
Their interests, their habits. their
thoughts were as widely sundered
AS their years. yet each was. WhoIy
and completely bound up IN the
afher. When Sabre sat and talked
with Young Perch of an evening, old
Mrs. Perch would sit with him, Mex
her son, in an armchair asleep. a,
intervals she would start awake ana
say ENORMOUSLY, "Now l suppose L
must be driven off to bed :.
young Perch, not pauslng III
what he might be saying, wouio
stretch "a hand and lay it on ms
mothers. Mrs. Perch, as though
Freddie's hand touched away enor-
nous WEAKNESS and care, would sign
resbfuIly and sleep again.
It gave Sabre extraordinary sensa-
tions. his
If he had been asked to name ms
Harticular friends these were IIe
hnds he would nave named re
them constantly. lnfrequentis
" saw another. Quite suddenly she
cXtne back into his life.
YNona returned into his HE.