Show r i x I I I TOnn After eight years of married life lite MARK a well educated Englishman English English- Englishman man realizes that he and his wife MABEL have been drifting apart because of or fundamental differences In taste Sabres Sabre's delights In poetry in whimsical humor In democratic Ideals are not shared by the prosaic and snobbish Mabel Mabll In hours of leisure from his hi work In the firm of Fortune Ea East t Sabre church and i school outfitters In which Sabre has hal charge of the publishing department Sabre visits his eccentric but charming neighbors Mr 11 Fargus and the Perches Perche Young Perch and anel his hla Invalid mother Suddenly another friend appears appears- I NONA She Is now Lady Sabre Sabre- bicycling t to work unexpectedly IY meets neets rW Nona and hir hr dashing husband f LOnD TY n GO ON OX WITH TIm THU STORY i Lord lady Indy who was twenty- twenty eight carried in her countenance andin and amI andin in her hair the pleasing complement complement I of her lords lord's tan and olive hue huo and of or his cropped black poll She was ex- ex exI I fair Her skin was of I the huo and of the sheen of ot creamy I silk and glowed beneath its hue It I presented amazing delicacy and yet 1 an exquisite firmness Children playing playIng play- play I ling Ing with her and anti she delighted in playing with children but she was childless often orten asked to stroke her I face They would stare at her face faceIn In that immensely absorbed way in which children stare and then ask to I touch her face and Just strove it their baby fingers were not more I IsottI softly silken Of her hair Lady I had said frequently from her girlhood girlhood girlhood girl girl- I hood upwards that It was a most sickening nuisance She bound it It tightly as If to punish and be firm with the sickening nuisance that It It I was to her Her n name me was Nona Nonn Out of a hundred people who I passed her by quite quito a considerable number would have denied that she I was beautiful Her face was round and saucy rather than oval 0 and clas clas- Incontestable the striking at attraction attraction at- at I traction of her complexion and of her hair but not beautiful quite beautiful quite a number number number num num- I ber would have said aid al and arid did say Oh no pretty perhaps in a way but that's all But her face was much more than beautiful to Sabre I IV PT hart had n d hi hl apologies for tor his blundering descent upon them laughed at Lord was saying Well VeIl its it's a tiger of or a place this Garden Home of yours Sabre Sabre- Sabre- Sabre Its not mine said Sabre Sabr God forbid orbid Ah youve you've not got the same beautiful beautiful beautiful beau beau- local patriotism that I have Its It's one of my most elegant qualities my mv passionate devotion to my countryside Youre a bloated aristocrat and a a. bloodsucker Nona Kona told him in her clear fine voice And youre you're living on estate which your brutal ancestors ravaged from the people That's what you are Tony I showed It you OU in the searchlight yesterday And I say dont don't use elegant that's mine I Oh by gad yes es so I am said Lord Bloodsucker Good lord fancy being a bloodsucker I He looked so genuinely rueful and abashed that Sabre laughed and then said to Nona Why is Js elegant yours Lady She made a little pouting motion at him with her lips Ups Marko I wish wish to goodness you wouldn't call me Lady Dash it weve we've called one another another another an an- other Nona and Marko for about a thousand years long before belore I ever knew Tony And Just because Im I'm married married- And Sabre said Lord what the devil does it matter what a bloated bloated bloat bloat- ed robber minds anyway That's th the way to look at m me Sabre Trample me underfoot my boy Im I'm a pestilent survivor of or tho the feudal system arent I Nona Absolutely So Marko dont don't be a completer noodle than you already are AH in you are getting it now Lord ora murmured Im a noodle too the Searchlight says sas says He somehow gave Sabre th the Impression Impression sion of taking an even deeper enjoyment enJoyment enJoy enJoy- ment in the incident between his wife and Sabre Sabro than the enjoyment ho clearl clearly had in his own factiousness He Ho was slightly turned In his saddle so gO as to look directly at Nona an l he listened and interposed and nd turned his eyes from her face to Sabres Sabre's and from Sabres Sabre's to hers with hi his handsome hand some head slightly cocked to on one side sido and anti wit with much gleaming in his his' eyes rather as if it he had on some somo private mock Fantastical notion What mock could he have Well about my word elegant nt Nona was going on and why It Jt i is ismine mine mine weren't weren't you asking Sabre s said ld ho he had Yes why yours ours Wh Why Tony and I get fond of ot a a word and then we have It for our own own whichever of us It is and use It for tor everything c And elegant's mine Just now Im I'm fond of It Its It's so sowell sowell sowell well well elegant there you are you se see seil I IThe The mare steadied again She stretched out her neck toward Sabre Sabro and quivered red her nostrils at him sensing sens lens lensIng ing him He put up a n hand to stroke her beautiful muzzle and she threw up her head violently and swerved sharply around I The mare marc w was s Wheedled round nain I to her former position against i i her cr will but somehow as the natural re result result re- re sult suit of her dancing Marvelous how ho he directed her caprices into his own In Intentions In- In and against her own But Dut Lord was now looking away behind him to where the adjoining meadow V sloped far away and steeply to a copse In the hollow only the tops of or the trees could be seen His Ills eyes were screwed up In distant vision Ho He said Dash It theres there's that old blighter Hes He's been avoiding me Now I Ive I've got him Nona you wont won't mind getting back alone He twisted the mare In a wonderfully quick and dext dexterous rous movement movement mo Good Goo bye Sabre You dont don't mind Nona 1 And AmI he flashed a glance Ho lifted the mare over the low bank with witha a superbly easy motion He turned to wave his hand as she landed nimbly In the meadow and ho he cantered away Image of grace poetry of movement Fortu Fortunes Fortune's nes ne's favorite v V. V The features relt of the level lo valley vaHey be beyond beyond beyond be- be S yond the bro brow where here only ho could I have J seen seep tJi tile Individual he sought were at that distance of Noahs Noah's ark I 2 S r I dimensions How ho he could have recognized recognized recognized rec rec- rec- rec any anyone one said Nona Nona her gaze toward the valley I cant can't even see anyone Hes He's got eyes ces like about four tour I hawks Sabre said And rides like ilice a what a-what what I Ido do they call those things things things-liko like a cen cen- cen j cen-j taur She turned turia her head toward toward- him He does doe everything better than anyone anyone any any- one else she said Tonys Tony's anY 1 characteristic Everything Hes He's perfectly perfectly perfectly per per- I wonderful I These were enthusiastic words but I I sho spoke c them without enthusiasm sho sha merely merelY pr pronounced them Well VelI I i I I I I 1 I I I I going to take me into part part- Just told me ho he said Im I'm off too she said And what about you Marko Youre You're going to work arent aren't you I dont don't think you ought to be able to stop and gossip like this Youre You're not getting gelting an idler idle are you You YOl- YOl used to y be such such a de' de devoted d hard I w worker My word and she laughed I as though at some somo amused memory or ot othis his devotion to work I lIe IIo laughed too They certainly hadI had many in common though not all laughable I 1 don dont don't t think Im I'm I quite so so-so so so earnest a as as I used to be he ho smiled Ah but I like you earnest Marko There was the tiniest silence be between between between be- be tween them Yet it seemed to Sa Sabre Sabrea re rea a very long silence She was again the one to sp speak ak and her tone was rather abrupt and high pitched as if she too were conscious of a long silence and broke it deliberately l as one breaks with an effort constraint And AntI hows how's Mabel all right She's ever so l keen keenon cen cenon on this Garden Home business Nona She would be said And so am I I said Sabre Something Something Something Some Some- thing in her tone made say it de tie tie- Sh She laughed Im sure you yu are Marko Well Vell goodbye and as as Derry and Toms began to turn with his customary cusI customary cus cus- cus- cus I tomary sedateness df f motion she mado I the remark Im so glad you don dont I II wear trouser clips Marko I do loathe I trouser clips Ho He told her that ho he rode rodo one ot of those bikes He lie said it rather Exactly Ex Ex- Ex- Ex in that tone she used to say things like I do III lile e you In iii that brown suit Marko He lie resumed his ride A mile farther on he lie overtook on a slight rise an Immense immense im Im- ira ira- mense tree trunk slung between three pairs of wheels and dragged by two tremendous horses harnessed tandem- tandem wise As he passed them came camo the smell of warm horse flesh and his thought was Pretty lIe He shot ahead and a line came into his mind Was Vas this the face that launched a thousand ships Well h ho had certain aspirations dreams Isi ns CHAPTER II Il Sabre Sabro fO found but little muo business awaiting him when he ho got to his office He lie took out the manuscript of f England England England En gland and turned over the pages He wondered what Nona would think of it it He lIe would like to tell teU her about it came 11 in in was of middle height very thin black haired His Ills clean shaven face was deeply furrowed in rigid looking look look- lag ing furrows which looked as though shaving would be an intricate operatIon operation operation opera opera- tion He held himself very stiffly and spoke stiffly as though the cords of his larynx were also rigidly inclined I When not speaking l lf had a habit of I breathing rather noisily through his nose as if Jf he were wore doing de deep p breathing breathing breathing breath breath- I ing ex exercises Hp was married and had a l son son of whom he was Immen immensely lY i proud aged 18 and doing well In alls Ic yer's office He came in and closed cosed the doo door had a sheet of paper In his hand 11 going to take m. m me e into pe pa a Just told me Continued in our next issue |