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Show (Continuel From Our Last Issue) "He had one, showed me the letter. Well, you know, old man. every fox knows v hat foxes smell I like; and I smelt a dear brother so-i so-i llcltor s smell In that letter. AsK-J AsK-J ing him to make .i home posslbh for ' her to return so they might resume t their life together "I handed It back I said, H m' I again. I said. 'H'm. you remember I old man. there was that remark I that remark that perhaps the girl I might have a claim on you Remember Remem-ber that, don't you'.'" "By Jove, I thought for a minute he was going to flare up and let me have It. Hut he laughed as if I was a fool and said, "fh. good Lordi man. that's utterly ridiculous. Man alive, with all my faults, my wife knows me." CHATTER III I n a day u month later in May HapgOOd said "Now I'll tell you. Old Sabre by Jove. It's frightful. He's crashed "Look here, It's in two parts, thlsj BUddan development. Two parts morning and afternoon yesterday and la bit today And of all extraordinary i places to happen at Bright"" 'Yes. Brighton. I was down there1 for a Saturday to Monday with my' Missus. Monday morning we were running on the pot. she and I I "Well, all of a sudden he b.gan. j 'Oh. what a frightfully interesting face that man's got!' "I looked across. Old Sabre! '1 went over to him. His face was like a shout on a sunny morning Yes, he was pleased. I like to think i how Jolly pleased the old chap was "I got old Sabre ,,n to a secluded bench and started In on him. What on earth was he doing down it Brighton, and how were things" "He said 'Thingu . .? Things are ! happening with me, Hapgood. 'Not 'to me with me I had to get away j from them for a bit. I'm going back tomorrow. Effle was right with her baby She was glad I should go glad for mc, T mean. Top of her own misery. Hapgood. she's miserable at: what she says she's let me in for. She's always crying about It Sh 8 torn between knowing my houso is tho only place where she can have her baby, between that and seeing what her coming Into the place hns i ' caused. She spends her time trying j , to do any little thing she can to make me comfortable. It's pathetic, you j ' know Jumped at this sudden Idea I ! of mine of getting away for a couple j of days Fussi 1 over me paeklng up, and all that, you know. T,ook. Just to show ou how she hunts about) i for anything to do for me said my I old straw hat was much too shabby I for Brighton and would I got her some stuff, oxalic acid, and let her clean It up for me. As a matter of fact she made such a shocking me-s i of the hat that I hardly liked to wear it. Couldn't hurt her feelings, though. ' Chucked It Into the sea when I got I here and bought this one Make a 1 funny story for her when I g-t bs R about how it blew off. That's th , sort of life wo lead together, Hapgood. Hap-good. Give ou another example ; Just when I had brought her the -tuff for mv hnt. Met me with. Had I lost anything .' Said I was to guesn. I Ouessod at last that It must be my Igaret case. It was She'd found it lying about and took me up show where sho'd put It for safety In the back of the clock in my room. Said 1 was always to look there for any little valuables I might miss. and wanted me to know how she liked toj bl f.'.reful of It I tilings like that Fussing over me. d'you see" " 'That's the sort of life we lead together Hapgood -together) but the life I'm caught up in, the things that are happening with me. thut I'm I right in the middle of. that I felt I had to get away from for a bit as- ! founding. Hapgood, astounding, amasing . . ." "'Hapgood. if I kept forty women j in different parts of London and i made no secret of it nothing would be said. People would know 1 was rather a shameless lot, my little ways would be an open secret, but nothing would be said. I should be received everywhere. But I'm thought to have- brought one woman Into m" house and I'm banned. I'm unspeakable unspeak-able "'Do you see. Hapgood? Do yon see? The conventions are all right., moral, sound, excellent, admirable, but to save their own face then s blind side to them, a shut-eye side. Keep that sid- ot them and oure all, right They'll let you alone They II pretend they don t see you. But I come out and stand In front of them SJDd they'll devour you. They'll: smash and grind and devour you, , Hapgood. They're devouring me. I "'That's where they've got me In their jaws, Hapgood; and where they've got Effle In their Jaws Is Just ; precisely again on a blind, shut-eye, side . They're rightly leased, they're absolutely just you can't galnsaj them, but to save their face, again. they're indomitably blind and deaf to the hideous cruelties In thc'r application. ap-plication. They mean well They eause tho most frightful sulterlng, the most frightful tragedies, bu thej won't look at them they won'l think, of them, they won't --peak of them,, they mean well . .' "Old Sabre put his head In his hand He might ha.' b.-en praying "With that he went back to all . that stuff I told you he told me when I wo down with him lost month H said, his face all pink under his skin. I he said, Hapgood. I'VO g"t ih-erct. ih-erct. I've got the key to the riddle that's been puzzling me all my life Light, more light Hero it is God is love. Not this that, nor the other that the Intelligence revolts at, , and puts aside, and goes away, and j goes on hungering, hungering and in satisfied nothing like 'hat. but Just this, plain for a child, 'bar as daylight day-light for grown intelligence. God It love Listen to this, Hapgood; 'Hi that dwelleth In love dwelleth In God and Qod In him; for God is love.' Ec-, stasy, Hapgood ecstacyl' H "When I saw him again was about three o'clock, and 1 walked right into the middle of the development that has pretty well let the roof dovn on , him. "He was in the lobby. No ono else I there Only a man who'd Judt been I speaking to him and who left him j and went out aa I came In. "Sabre had two papers In his L hands. Ho was staring at them and " you'd ha' thought from his face he I was staring at a ghost. They were divorce papers. Tho citation and petition peti-tion papers that have to be served personally. Divorce papers. His I wife had Instituted divorce proceed- Ings against hlnv Naming the girl. Effle. "Yes, you can whistle. H was knocked out. I got him up to his ' room It wa pretty awful. He at I on the bed with the papers In his hand gibbering. Just gibbering Was his wife mad " Was she crazy" He to be guilty of ; thing like that? He capable of a beastly thing like that .: A vile, hideous, sordid intrigue with a girl employed in his own house? Bffie! His wife to believe that? An unspeakable, beastly thing like that? He tried to show me with his finger the words on the paper. Mis finger shaking all over the thing. Hapgood, Hapgood. do you see this vile, obSdene word here" r guilty of ".My God, the world makes mo Bick!" that" My wife. Mabel. think mo capable of that Adulterer' Adulterer! Adult-erer! My God. my God, adulterer! The word makes mo sick. The very word Is like poison In my mouth. And I am to swallow It. It is to bo me, my name, my title, my brand. Adulterer! Adult-erer! Adulterer" "I tell you, old man . . I toil you .... "I managed to get him talking about the practical side of it That is. I managed to make him listen while I talked. "Next morning that's this morning morn-ing you understand ho was a little more normal, able to realize things u bit. I mean, in a panic fever to bo off and state at the Registrar's that he was going to defend the action, but normal enough for me to see It was all right for him to go straight on homo immediately after and tell tho girl what she had to do and all that I told him. by the way, that It would pretty well have to come out now. ultimately, who the child's father was tho girl would practically have to give that up In the end to clear blni You know, f told him that In the cab going along down He ground his teeth over u. It was horrible hor-rible to hear him He said he'd kill the ehap if he could eor discover him: ground his teoth and said he'd kill him, now aftei i his. "Well, he got through his business! about twelve Then a thing happen-' ed. ran t think now what It meant ' ..v, nviv irauwMig 101 a can near me I !-aw Courts A cab was just pulling! I In when a man ea up anil touched Sabre and -aid. Mr. Sabre." Sabro said. 'Yes.' and the chap said very Civilly, 'Might I speak to you a minute, min-ute, sir"' "Suddenly someone shoved past mi j and there was old Sabre getting into I the cab with this chap who had come up to him. I said, 'Hullo' Hullo. v you off?" "He turned round on me a. face ! gray OS ashes, absolutely dead gray. I'd nev er s.-en such a i olor in a nun' face. He said, "'Yes. I'm off,' and sort of fell over his stick Into the j cab. Tho man, who was already In, i ; righted him on to the neat and -aid. I 'Paddlngton' to the driver who was I at the door, shutting it. i said, ' through the window, 'Sabre! ld man! are you 111 ?' "He put his head towards me and said in the most extraordinary voice, speaking between his clenched teeth as though he was keeping himself from yelling out. he said, 'If you love me. Hapgood. get right away out of It from me and let me alone. This man happ. ns to live at Tldborough. I know him We're going down together.' to-gether.' "I said 'Sabre ' "He clenched his teeth so they were all bare with his Hps contraot-l ing He said, Let me alone La( me alone. Let mc alone.' "And they pushed off "I tell you what I'm golii :o do. I'm going down there tomorrow I'm frightened about him." (Continued in Our Next Iaulie) |