New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 31, 1922, Page 9

Q1911 BEGIN HERE TODAY A serles of significant differences trivial events has convinced MARK SABRE, a well-educated English- man, that after olght years of married 1ife he 18 almost completely entranged from his prosalc and snobbish wife, MABEL. e secks refuge in the company of his eccentric neighbors, Mr. Fargus and “the Perches’— YOUNG { and hig invalild mother Saddenly an old friend returns to his lUte. The friend is NONA, an old sweetheart, of the dashing LORD TYBAR. Babre's inabllity to find sympathy &t home is duplicated In the oMce of Fortune, East and Sabre where he has chargo of the publishing department. 1o dreams of writing a history of England and has been over now the wifo promised full partnership in the firm. Sud- denly his hopes are blasted when TWYNING, a fealous colleage, Aannounces that he has been promised the partner- nership by Foartune, chief shareholder, GO ON WITH THE STORY Sabre uttered a single ‘Good." Twyning's face darkened again and darkened worse. He spoke also but a single word, "“Thanks!"” He turned sharply on his heel and went to the door. “I say, Twyning!" Sabre jumped to his feet and went to Twyning with outstretched hand. “T didn’t mean to take it like that. Don't think I'm not ~—I congratulate you. Jolly good. Splendid. I tell you what—I don't mind telling you—it was a hit of a smack in the eye for me for a mo- ment. You know I've rather sweated over this business,'—his glance indi- eated the stacked bookshelves, the firm’s publications, his publications « .. “See what I mean?" A certain movement in his throat and about his mouth indicated, more than his words, what he meant. A slight. Twyning took the hand and gripped it with a; firmness characteristic of his handshake. “Thanks, old man. Thanks awful- ly. Of course I know what you mean.” Outside the door he clenched his hands. He thought, “Smack in the eye for you was it? You'll get a damn sight worse smack in the cye one of these days. Dirty dog!" II Immediately the door was closed Sabre went what he would have call- ed “plug in” to Mr. Fortune; that is to say, without hesitation and without reflection. “I've just heard that you've told Tywning you're going to take him in- to partnership.” The whale-like front gave a sudden leap and quiver precisely as if it had been struck by a cricket ball. Mr. For- tune's voice hardened very remarka- bly. “And to that, I will permit myself two remarks. In the first place, I con- sider it highly reprehensible of Twyn- ing to have communicated this to you—"- Sabre broke in. “Well, he didn't I inferred it. It seems I inferred cor- rectly.” There flashed through Mr. For- tune’s mind a poignant regret that, this being the case, he had not de- nied it. He said, ‘T am exceedingly glad to hear it.” Sabre, despite his private feelings in the matter, characteristically fol- lowed this reasoning completely, and said so. “Yes, that's your way of looking at it, sir, and I don’t say it isn’t perfectly sound—from your point of view—" Mr. Fortune finclined his head solemnly: “T am obliged to you.” “—Only other people look at things on the face of them, just as they ap- pear. You know—it's dificult to ex- press {t—I’ve put my heart into those books, I can’t quite explain it but I felt that the slight, or what Jooks like 8 slight, is on them, not on me.” He put his hand to the back of his head, ® habit characteristic when he was embarrassed or perplexed, “’I'm afraid 1 can’t quite express it, but it's the Dbooks” “No, 1 confese that 1s a little beyond me,” sald Mr. Fortune, smoothing his word, Headache Neuralgia &, 2N Stiff Necke Qg vy PALACE—COMING E ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE” A Serjal for the Children ————e———e— AT AT BRING HOME THE OYSTERS FROM HONISS’S ALWAYS FRESH 20-30 State Street Hartford Telephone 3374—3375 ASMHiltchinson, ASMHUTCHINSON ~ tront; and they remained looking at one another. A sudden and sounded through the room. tune spun himself with his desk and applied his flexible speaking tube, Sabre roused himself and stood up abruptly. “Ah, well! All right sir."" 1 Arrived again in his room, Sabre dropped into his chair. In his eyes was the look that had been in them when he had tried to explain to Mr, Fortune about the bocks, what Mr. Fortune had confessed he found a little beyond him. He thought: “The books . . . Of course Fortune hasn't imagined them . .. seen them grow . But it hurts. Like hell it hurts .+ . And I can't explain to him how T feel about them ... I can't ex- plain to any one."” His thoughts moved on: “I've been twelve years with him. Twelve years we've been daily together, and when I said that about the books I sat there and he sat there—and just looked. Starred at each other like masks, Masks! T sit behind my mask and he sits behind his and that's all we see. Twelve mortal years! And there're thousands of people in thou- sands of offices . . . thousands of unearthly moan Mr. For- relief to lips to a THE WHALE - LIKE FRONT GAVE A SUDDEN QUIVER AND MR. FORTUNE'S VOICE HARD- ENED REMARKABLY. homes . . . just the same. All behind masks. Mysterious business. Extra- ordinary.” He thought: All looking for some- thing . . . You can see it in half the faces you see. Looking for what? Love? But lots have love. Happi- ness? But aren’t lots happy? But are they?"” Hda knitted his brows: *“It goes deeper than that. It's some universal thing that's wanting. It is something that religion ought to give, but doesn't Light? Some new light to give every one certainty in religion, in belief Light?” His thoughts went to Mabel. Upon a sudden impulse he looked at his watch. Only just after twelve. He could get back in time for lunch. Lonely for her, day after day, and left as he had' left her that mornins. They could have a jolly afternoon together, He could make it a jolly afternoon. Nona kept coming into his thoughts—and more so after this Twyning business. He would have Mabel in his thoughts. He went in and told Mr. Fortune he rather thought ot taking the afternoon off if he was not wanted. He mounted his blcycle and rode purposefully back to Mabel. i CHAPTER 111 I “Anything for me, Pirrip?" Sabre asked the postman ds he arrived at Penny Greens, “One, Mr, Sabre,” Sabre took the leiter and glanced at the handwriting, It was from Nona, Her small, neat, masculine script had once heen as familiar to him as his own, It was curiously like his own, $he had the same triek of not Jinking alj the Jetters in a word, He glanced at jt, regarded it for slightly Jonger than a glance, and with a 1ittle pueker of brows and lips, then made the action of putting ft, unopened, in his pocket, Then he rest- ed the bicycle against his hip and opencd her letter, “Northrepps, Tuesday,” She never dated her jetters, He used to be al- ways telling her about that, Tuesday wag yesterday, Dear Marko—We're baek, We've been from China to Peru—almost. Come up one day and be hored ahout it. How are you? Nona, He thought: “Iunny she didn’t mention she’d written just now, Per- haps she theught it was funny 1 didn’t say 1'd had it, 1 must tell her He retyrned her felter 1o its envel- ope and put the envelope in his pocket. Then he wheeled his bicycle inte his gate, He smiled. ‘Mabel will be surprised at me back like this* Mabhel was descending the stairs as he entered the hall, In the white dress she wore she made a pleasant pieture against the broad, shallow stairway and the dark paneling, But she did not appear particularly pleased to see him, But he thought “Why should she he? That's just it. That's why I've come back,” “Hnllo?” she greeted him, Yo forgotten something.” He smiled invitingly, “Have No, I've FOOLISH WIVES Broke World’s Record 20,466 Persons Attending IN ONE DAY NEW BRITAIN DAII just come back, 1 suddenly thought we'd have a holiday.” She showed puzzlement, “A holi- day? What, the office? All of you?" She had paused three steps from the foot of the stairs, her right hand on the banisters, He slid his hand up the rail and rested it on hers, “Good Lord, no, Not the office. No, I suddenly thought we'd have a hollday, You and 1" He half hoped she would respond | to the touch of his hand by turning the palm of her own to it, Dut he thought, “Why should she?" and she did not. She sald, “But how ex- traordinary! Whatever for?" She had descended and he moved along the hall with her towards the morning room. “It's rather sald. She certainly was not enthusiastic over it. She asked, “Well, what are you going to do?" He wished he had thought of some plan as he came along. “What time's lunch? Come on, we'll cut the flowers.” extraordinary,” she I She cut the first rose and held it to her lips, smelling it. “Lovely. ‘Who was your letter from, Mark?" He thought, “How on earth did she know?" He had forgotten it him- self. "How ever did you know? From Lady Tybar. They're back “I saw you from the window with the postman. Lady Tybar! What- ever was she writing to you about?" He somehow did not like this. Why “whateve And being watched was rather beastly; he remembered he had fiddled about with the letter .Y HERALD, FRIDAY, half put it in his pocket and then taken it out again, And why not? What did it matter? Mabel did not particularly like Nona, He sald, “Just to say they're back, She wants us to go up there," (Continued in Our Next Issue), M.E. MINISTERS ON STEADY INCREASE There Are 1,918 Now Studying for Pastorships Newark, N. J., March 81,—There are 1,913 Methodist ministers now studying and on trial preparatory to becoming elders, an increase of more than 187 over last year, Dr. R. J. Wade, Chicago, corresponding secre- tary of the Committee on Conserva- tion and Advance, told the members of the Newark Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church here to- day. Many Have Died. “There were 9 ministers who died in 1021; there supernumerary preachers, and 3 retired minis- ters,”” he said. “Since June, 1010, $40,768,340 have been paid into the treasury of the Methodist Episcopal church for the Methodist Centenary program, an increase of over 360 per cent in giving of the Methodist I copal church. This {s the most re- markable example of increased be- nevolent giving in the history of the church. Every Christian man and ment Come The Compression Tread fea- ture of Converse Tires is the greatest advance in tire en- gineering since the develop- its advantages. introductory prices and free tube offer are still good. Alex Auto Supply Co. Open Evenings of cord construction. in and let me explain My special 36 ARCH ST. 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