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Show Continued From Our Inst Issue J Sabre did not know how overwro ignl he was until ho was :it homo again and ,como to Mnle stated nt breakfast. I Mahot looked up from herb reakfasi "Well, I do think " Thla woa the beginning of a. He Ifc-lt himself digging his nails into tho palm of bis hands. "I've been up with old Mrs Torch. I was with her when ,'l.c .lt'-il It's unset mo a bit " "i don t wonder. If you ask me, I think It was very extrao.rcllTi.iry your b.'lnt: there. If you ask me, I think it was very funny of that Miss Bright sending for you at that hour of the night. WhyviT should she send for you of all people .' 'I to their greatest friend." "Yon, I know you always liked them. Rut you couldn't b of any use. I must say I do think people arc very funny bo me times, if Miss Bright had done the rjght i lung, as we are their nearest near-est neighbors) slu would have sent and asked mo if I could let one of tho maids go over nd be with her Then you could have gone up. too, if you'd wished, and could hnvo come back again. I Gon'l think she had any right to send for you." He hid sat down and wa.s about to pour himself some tea. He put down the teapot and K't up. "IOOk here, do me a favor, They're dead, both of them. Ion't say anything more about them. Don't mention the subject again For God's Sake." He went out of the houso and got his hlcyclo and set Out for the office At the top of the Oreen, lie passed young Flnnock, the ;ioii of Tlnnock's Mores. sBome patch of color about young Plnnnck caught his eyo. The color was fl vivid ri!il crown on n khaki braSBSf?d on the young man's arm. Th'1 badge of the recruits enrolled under .he perby enlistment scheme !( dismounted. dis-mounted. "Hullo. Pinnock. How on earth did you get that armlet? I thought you had been rejected about; 40 times-'" Young Pinnock grinned hugely Don't matter if you've got both feet . In, or head and shoulders. neither., over at Chovcnsbury today .Mr. Sa-, bre. There's a rush of chaps to get In before they innke conscripts of 'em they're fair letting anybody through." Sabre turned his front wheel to the Chovensbury road. CHAPTER VIII I Life, when it takes so giant a hand In its puppet show aa to upturn a cauldron caul-dron of world war upon the puppets, may be Imagined Mtlng it.s fingers In some chagrin at the little result Hi par-, ttoular Instances. As vegetation be-, neath snow, so Individual development beneath universal calamity. Naturuj persists; Individual life persists. Sabro was called up In his Derby Mass within eight weeks of his enrollment enroll-ment at the end of February, 1916, He was nearly two years in the war, but his ultimate encounter with life awaited him. and was reached pre-J Cicely a" it was reached without, agency of the war, certainly without participation partici-pation Ul It. () the interval only those, few eonts ultimately mattered which had connection with his 11 f at home j They seemed In tho night of the war transient as falling stars, they proved, themselves lodestars of his destiny. He first went to Franof, In one of , the long string of service Ixittallons that had sprung out of the Pinks. In the June following his enlistment Ma'iel bad derided to got a paid companion il was rather lonely in some ways and she had arranged to have "that girl. Mis-s Bright." Babr reading her letter exela'uu d aloud "By love. that'M good- 1 am glad," antl he thought. "Jolly little Kffl: That's splendid ' He somehow liked lm- Imensely the idea of imagining bright K'fle about the 1 -,e He thought. "1 I wish she could have been in long ago. I when 1 was (here. It would have mad. . difference Someone between us We used to work on one another's nerves Pretty little Efflc: Like a Jolly little ;s!eter " II He wn writing regularly to None md regularlj hearing from her. He never oould quite make ut when sh was, addressing her only to her symbol in the Field post office She wn.s cai lrlln' anil working ver- long hours. There wow one letter that he never posted, but of the exlntence of which ho permitted himself to toll her. 'I carry It about with me always In rav Pay-booh It is addressed to you. If ever i get outed n will go to you In lit I have said everything that I have never wald to you, but you know With ut rnv alng It. There 11 bo no harm In your hearing It from my own hand if I'm dead I keep on adding to It. BvSry tlmo we come back Into rest, I add a Uttle more, it could be said in three words we have novcr said to ona I nother," And she wrote, "Marko, I can read vour letter, every line of It I lie ftWake, Marie, , and Imagine myself word by word, line by line and word by word, line by line In the same words and in the same lines, 1 answer It. 8o when you read it to yoursell for me, read It for yourself to me. h. Marko " III Early in Decembor be wrote to Mabel: ' A most extraordinary thing has happened. I'm coming home! I've suddenly been told that I'm one of five men in the battalion who have been rolceted ty go home to an Officer Offi-cer Cadet battalion for a commission. commis-sion. Don't Jump to fhi. conclusion that l m the pride of the regiment or anything like that It's simply duo to two things: one that this Is not the kind f battalion with mans m n who would think of taking commissions; commis-sions; the other that both my platoon pla-toon officer and the captain of my company happen to be Old Tiburlani and. as I've told you, have often been rather decent to me. I hope to be homo on the third and I go to 'rte Cadet battalion, at Cambridge, on the fifth." IV Ho made rather a boisterous entry Into the house on his arrival, arriving arriv-ing In the morning before breakfast He entered th hail jut after eight o'clock and announced himself win, , loud. "HullO, everybody'" and thumped thump-ed the butt of his rifle on the floor. An enormous crash In the kitchen and a hriek of "It's the master'" heralded tho tumultuous discharge upon h'm of High links and Low Jinks. Bffle appeared from the dining din-ing room He was surrounded and enthusiastically shaking bands "Hello, you Jlnkses! sn't this ripping.' rip-ping.' Bj Jove, High and Low It's famous to seo you again. Hullo. Effle: Just fancy you being here! HOW Jolly fine, eh? Where- the' Mistress? Not down yet ' III Co u Low Jinks Low Jink:-, im dashed If you aren't crying!" He broke off. Hullo. Mabel! Hullo! Did you get my letter'' I'm coining up." Mabel was in a wrapper at thol Mabel was In wrapper at the head of tlie stairs. "Do yon mind?" in naked, head of the stairs. He ran up. "I'm simply filthy. Do you mind?" He took her hand She Bald, "I never dreamt you'd bo here at .this hour. How are you, Mark Yes. 1 got your letter But I never expected you till this evening eve-ning it's very annoying that nothing in ready for you." Just the same Mabel! But he Wasn t going to let her be the natno He had made up his mind to that us h: had Come along with eager strides j from tho station V But the three days at heme were marred by tho discovery that his suspicion was well founded she was I bullying Kffle. IIp ln cun to notice It ;ti once Kffle. with whom ho had antlclpatad u lot of fun. was different differ-ent not nearly so bright; subdued; here eyes, not always but. onl by occasional flushes, sparkling that In-tense In-tense appreciation of the oddities of life that had so much attracted hlni In her. Yon. dash It, Mabel was treating her in s rotten way. Bully ing. No. II was not exactly bullying. it was snubbing, a certain acid quail- I ty always present In Mabel h voh-o when she addressed her that and a manner of always being what he thought of as "at her. ' in Maroh he came back a second lieutenant; and Immediately, when In time to come he looked back, things set In train for that ultimate encounter with life which was assuming assum-ing him. He went over for one ilt to the office at Tldborough. Not so mu. h enthusiasm greeted him as to rn our-ogo our-ogo a second. Twynlng and Mr. Fortune For-tune were Immersed In adapting the workshops to war work for the government. gov-ernment. And it was made .sufficiently .suffi-ciently clear to Habre that. 80 long away and Immediately to he of again, there could be no Interest for him In the enterprise He rose to go. "I only called in to show off my officer'? uniform." Twynlng said, "Yes. congratulations congratula-tions again, old man." He laughed "You mustn't think you're going to I have Harold saluting you though, If you evei mer He's getting a commission, com-mission, too His munner, direct!; he began to peak of Harold, ohang tl to that enormous affection and ad - ' miration for his son which Sabro well j remembered on the occasion of Hur-old Hur-old Joining up Ills face shone, his mouth trembled with loving pride at' wh.lt Harold bad i-.ne And he wa.s such ii good boy wrote twice u week' to hl.s mother and once when ho was I sick In the hospital the Padre of hlsl battalion had written to sa what a good and sterling boy he was." Extraordinarily different Twyiilng tho father of Harold, and Twynlng In dally relations. i VI. His leave drew on. He spent h! tlnv In long walks alone and, when- I ever they were possible, In the old i evenings with Mr Fergus In Mabel',: absence he and Effle were much thrown together. Mabel frequently came upon them thus together, and when she did she had a mannorlsm I that somehow seemed to auggest 1 "catching" them together. And some- j I time she used that expression. (Continued In Our Next Issue) |