Show I I BEGIN TOM TODAY TOiJA AT of or The tory begins with Ith the tile remarks Hapgood a garrulous London solicitor ol regarding re re- his o old III frIend visit to recent gar sardine garding ln H. H Mark Sabre abre at the latter's latter home borne In plc- plc Penny Green Sabre who i III 34 ha has hall been married for six lx years and Hap Hap- g Rood o suspects that Sabre and and- his wife Mabel are n not exactly suited to one an an- t a. a other The Tho o differences of temperament m show how In trivial but significant events event II ben Mabel Informs r her husband that b th h J family tarn fam tl I ily name of her two v maids d I Is Jinks Sabre Immediately them theta High Jinks and ana anaLow Low JInks GO ON WITH THE E STORY Mabel seemed suddenly to have lost her her- interest In her exhibits and their cage Sho She rather hurried Mark through Uio kitchen premises and moving into the garden replied rather abstractedly to his plans for tor the gardens garden's gardens garden's gar gar- dens den's development Suddenly she said Mark I do wish you hadn't said sald that In the kitchen He caught his arm around her and gave gave- her a playful squeeze About High Jinks and Low rInks Jinks inks Ha Dashed funny that dont don't you think No I dont 1 I dont don't think its it's abit a a. abit bit funn funny Ho lie stared puzzled He lie had tried to explain the absurd thing and she simply simply sim simply sim- sim ply could not see it I 1 simply dont don't And again that vague and transient L u L u snot alivE nun IV Sabre awoke in the course of that night and lay awake The absurd in incident incident in- in came caine immediately into hl hi his mind and remained in his mind High Jinks and Low Jinks was comic No getting getting get get- ting over it Stupid of course but just the kind of stupid thing that tickled him irresistibly And she couldn't see it Absolutely could not see It But if It she were never going I to see seo any of ot these stupid little things that appealed to him himA him him- I A night light her wish dimly illumined il illumined il- il the room He lie raised himself and looked at nt her fondly sleeping be beside beside beside be- be side him He lie thought Dash It the things thing's been just the same from her point of view That den business She likes den and I cant can't stick den Just the tho same for her as for me that HighJinks HighJinks High HighJinks Jinks and Low Jinks tickles me and doesn't tickle her Te very gently moved with his finger a tress of her hair that had fallen upon her face face Mabel His wife How gently beneath her bed gown her bosom roseand rose roseand roseand and fell How utterly calm her face was How Howat at peace how secure se secure secure se- se cure she lay there He lie thought Three weeks ago she was sleeping in inthe inthe inthe the terrific privacy of her own room and here she is come to me in mine Cut ot off from ever everything and everybody everybody everybody every every- body and come here to me Ills His thoughts continued One life Ilfe One life out of two lives one nature out of two natures Mysterious and nd extraordinary She had brought her nature to his and he his nature to hers and they were to mingle mingle min mm- gb gle and become one nature Absurdly and inappropriately his mind picked up and presented to him the grotesque words High Jinks and Low Jinks A note of laughter was Irresistibly irresistibly Irresistibly Irre irre- tickled out of himS him S She Sie a said very sleepily Mark 1 are you laughing What 1 are you ou laughing laugh laugh- laughing ing at He lie lie patted her shoulder should r Oh noth noth- S v. ing s. CHAPTER III I. I One nature In the fifth year of their married life thoughts of her and of ot the poignant and tremendous adventure adventure adventure ad ad- venture on which the they were embarked together were no longer po possible while she lay in bed beside him They had come to occupy separate rooms In the tho fifth year of their married life I f measles visited Penny Green Mabel j caught It Sabre abr went to sleep in anI an- an another I I other room room and and the arrangement pre pro I all d Nothing was said between I them on the tho matter one way or the tho I other They naturally occupied different different dif dir ferent rooms during her Illness She recovered They continued to occupy different rooms It was the tile most most natural natural natural nat nat- ural business in the world The sole reference to recognition of permanency in this development of th the relations relation between them the was made nade when Sabre on the first Saturday afternOOn afternoon aft aft- after Mabels Mabel's recovery recovery recovery-he he did not go to his office at on Saturdays Saturdays earned carried out it t his Idea conceived conceived con con- con I during her sickness of making snaking the bedroom into which he had moved serve nerve as his study also lIe He had never got rid of his distaste for his den At lunch on this Saturday I tell you what Im I'm going to do lo this afternoon after after- afternoon noon he said Im going to move my lay books up into my room I Mabel orabel displayed no Interest In the i I move reeve nor made mado any reference to it at I I tea time In the tho evening hearing her i pass the door on her Wa way vay to tb dress for I I dinner he called her in He lIe was in his shirt sleeves I IlIe I ing the books book There you ou are Not i bad She t regarded them and the room I Th They y rook Took all right All AlI the same I J must say gay it seems rather funny using your be bedroom room for lor your our things when youve you've irot n ot a u room i- i I S 5 II IL But the significance of the r removal moval rested not in the definite relinquish relinquish- ment mont of ol the den but hut in her words us In lag ing your our bedroom the definite recognition of ot separate rooms And neither commented upon it it After all landmarks In the Course course I of a Journey are more frequently observed oh- oh obI ohI I served and antI noted as landmarks i I looking 1 t back along the H Journey journe u than I c H f y HS Lilt CHAPTER IV Mabel was two years younger than S Saber 25 23 at the time of her marriage I and Just past her thirtieth birthday I when the separate rooms were first I occupied Her habit of ot sudden laugh laugh- i ter ler rather loud was rather characterIstic character character- j Istl of ot her Her laugh cam came suddenly I and very heartily at anything that I amused her herand and without her first saulI saul smil I I ing ag or suggesting b by any other sign that luat she was amused She had a rather long Iong nos and this pleased her for tor she once rea read somewhere somewhere some some- where that long noses were werd- werd aristo aristo- I cratic She stroked her nose she as rea read 1 i j Mabel abel belonged to that considerable I I begin lass class of halt half persons their lOIS who sentences In ln conversation with And Anti I Just Imagine- Imagine or And only fancy fancy- or And do you know know- Thes t j delivered with much much- ej are introductory to matter mattei considered extraordinary Their u use l might therefore be imagined easily astonished But they have hav l compensatory steadiness of mind lr i r gard to much that mystifies oth otI people To Mabel there was mysterious in birth or in living off death Sho She simply would not have understood un ur understood had she been told there wa wa a any mystery in these things One One va ws born one olle lived ono one died What wa there odd about it Nor did shee S 1 He Ha was in in- his shirt sleeves the tho books A 1 9 anything mysterious In the intense p pe e occupation of an insect or the astound astoundIng astoundIng astoundIng Ing placidity of a primrose growing tho the foot of or a tree An Insect Insect yot yo killed it A flower you flower you plucked l t What's the mystery m S Her life Ute was living among people leople o 0 oher her own class Her measure of ot a maor ma mar or of a woman was Were Vero they of oLlie lie he class If they were she gladly accepted accepted ac ac- them and appeared to find co co con considerable pleasure In their society iy Whether they had attractive or unattractive qualities or no qu quail ll ties at all did not affect her The o l quality that mattered was the u u. u wc u I CHAPTER V. V I f I. I The Penny Green Garden House D Scheme was begun In 1910 1911 In 1908 the year O of the measles and separated bedrooms no shadow ofF had yet been thrown It never OC oc occurred OCcurred to anyone that a railway wo woul l lone one day link Unk Penny Green with Tid borough and all the rest of the tho sur surrounding surrounding ur rounding world or that a ft was desirable Sabre tl cycled in dally daily to Fortune East an anc I Sabres Sabre's and the daily ride to and had become a curious pleasure to him I There had once occurred to him he rode lode and thereafter had c and accumulated the feeling that the daily solitary passage betwee er and Penny Green lie Ite wa wai mysteriously detached from ri suspended between the two c cen centers that were his two worlds hi hh business world and his home Fortune East and Sabre Ecclesiastical Ecclesias Ecclesiastical I and Scholastic Furnishers and De Designers Designers De signers had in what i called in business and professional cirdes cir clr I cles des a good address JM The address of Fortune East an an anI I Sabre was emphatically a a. good Sj because its business was with h church and for the church with co col colleges colt leges universities and schools ando I colleges universities and schools wit wt bishops priests and clergy ch r rc wardens headmasters headmistress governors and bursars and for bish bishop p priests and clergy church warden hea headmasters headmistresses nors and bursars golet M MIts Its address was The Precincts Precincts t Precincts Precincts-o For 1 tune East and Sabre the Precincts VB I i I i I I g. II ii m Business on Business on credit creW t I only was only was was con ducted on the tile first floor whereon v. we r the three principals h Rev Se Sebastian Fortune Mr l and Sabre There was no longe a East in the tho The Rev Sebastian n Fortune w i called Jonah by hy his was called Jonah partly because hi visits to the places of their invariably presaged disaster diMster but p 1 t for the grois grons minded an wrongly adduced reason leason that he ha J in th their 11 opinion a n whales whale's belly r lIe He bore a certain resemblance ton o 0 i stunted whale He was chiefly abl ab Ills legs leers appeared to without thighs at his knees and l ll I face without neck at his chest HI face tace was large both wide and lon Joni and covered as us to Its lower lowr part wit wita a tough scrub of ot gray beard I ff nn 11 el I fn n v i- i 4 tn BH |