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FRIDAY. APRIL 7, 1922.
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«, BEGIN HERE TODAY.
In the summer of 1914, Mark Sa
bre finds that he is estranged from
human sympathy and understanding
with the sole exception of Lady Nona
Tybar, an old sweetheart, now un
happily married. Sabre’s prosaic and
snobbish wife, Mabel, fails o under
stand her husband’s poetic and whim
sical temperament. In business he is
undermined by jealous associates in
the firm of Fortune, East and Sa
bre and a promised partnership is di
verted from him to Twyning. At
this point, Nona’s life with Tybar is
intolerable l and she asks Sabre to
take her away. War is declared and
Sabre rushes to inform his wife.
GO ON WITH THE STORY.
She echoed the word. “War?”
“Yes, declared war.”
He was breathless panting. She
said, “Good gracious! Whatever will
happen? Have you brought an eve
ning paper? Do you know the pa
pers didn’t come this morning till—”
He could not hear her out. “No, I
didn’t wait. I simply rushed away,
lie was close to her. He took her
hands. “I say, Mabel, it’s war.” Hi?
emotions were tumultuous and ex
traordinary. He wanted to draw he?
to him and kiss her. They had not
kissed for longer than he could have
remembered; but now he held her
hands hard and desired to kiss her.
“I say, it’s war.”
She gave her sudden burst of
■aughter. “You are excited. I’ve
never seen you so excited. Your col
lar’s undone.”
He dropped her hands. He said
lather stupidly, “Well, it’s war, you
know, and stood there.
turne d to he rdressin gtable.
Well I do wish you’d stay for a
paper.”
T . II
Lying awake, he thought of Nona.
He had not written the letter to her.
The appointed day was past and he
had not written. He would have
said, during that unutterable dark
ness in which he had awaited it, that
not the turning of the world upside
down would have prevented him writ
ing; but the world had turned upside
down. It was not a board Pike’s men
had swung around in that appalling
moment when he had watched them
appear on the balcony. It was the
accustomed and imponderable world,
awfully unbalanced. Nona would
understand. Nona always understood
everything. He wondered how she
had maintained this terrific day. He
was assured that he knew. She would
have felt just as he had felt. He
thought, with a most passionate
longing for her, that he would have
given anything to have been able to
turn to her when he had exclaimed,
My God, war,” and to have caughe
her hands and looked into her beau
tiful face. Tomorrow he would send
the letter. Tomorrow? Why, yes,
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and placid light of all tomorrow’s,
would be shown needlessly hectic,
{ten to one something would have
happened in the night to make today
look foolish.
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When he went down into Tidbor
ough in the morning it was to know
at once that this tomorrow gave no
lie to its precedent day. It intensi
fied it. The previous day foreshad
owed war. The new day presented
it.
He went into the office. The after
noon post had brought letters to his
desk. He turned them over without
interest, then caught up one—from
Nona.
Marko, this frightful war! I have
thanked God on my knees for you
that last week you prevented me. If
I had done it with this! Tony has
rejoined the Guards, he was in the
Reserve of Officers. And you see
that whatever has been, and is, dear,
he’s my man to stand by in this.
Marko, it would have been too awful
if I couldn’t, and I thank God for
you, again and again and again.—
Nona.
CHAPTER IV
I
The enormous and imponderable
world awfully unbalanced. Upside
down. Extraordinarily unreal. Furi
ously real.
Life, which had been a thing of
events in which there was no time,
only events.
Things began one day very shortly
after the declaration of war when,
passing the barracks on his way
home, Sabre was accosted and taken
into the Mess by Cottar, a subaltern
of the Pinks. •
“You must come along in and have
a cup of tea,” j/oung Cottar urged.
“We’ve got a hell of a jamborino on.
At least we shall have tonight. We’re
just working up for it. I can’t tell
you why. You can' guess.”
Sabre felt a sudden catch at his
emotions. “Is the regimint going?"
They were at the door of the ante
room. Cottar swung it open. The
room was full of men and tobacco
smoke and noise. A very tall youth,
one Sikes, was standing ont the table,
a glass in his hand. “Hullo, Sabre!
Messman, one of those very stiff
whiskies for Mr. Sabre go on
Sabre, you must? Because —” He
had not Cottar’s reticence. He burst
into song, waving his glass—“Be
cause—
“We shan’t be here in the morn
ing—”
Otway came in. “Shut up, you
noisy young fools. What the—”
Sikes from the table. “Ah, Papa
Otway! Three cheers for Papa Ot
way in very discreet whispers. Mess
man, one of those very stiff whiskies
for Captain Otway.”
Otway laughed pleasantly. “No
chuck it, I’m not drink. Hood, I
want you; and you, Carmichael, and
you, Bullen.” He saw Sabre and
came to him. “Hullo, Sabre. You’ve
heard now. We’ve managed to keep
it pretty close, but it’s all over the
place now. Yes, we entrain at day
break.”
Sabre felt frightfully affected. He
could hardly speak.
The blessed gift in the war was to
be without imagination. The supreme
trial, whether in endurance on the
part of thes who stayed at home, or
in courage on the part of those who
took the field, was upon those whose
mentality invested every sight and
every happening with the poignancy
of attributes not present but imag
ined. For Sabre the war definitely
began with that visit to the Mess on
the ever of the Pink’s departure. The
high excitement of the young men,
their eager planning, moved Sabre,
visioning what might await it all, in
depths profound and painful in their
intensity. His mind would not aban
don them. He sat up that night after
Mabel had gone to her room. How
on earth could he go to bed, he hog
gishly sleeping, while those chaps
were marching out?
He could not. At two in the morn
ing he went quietly from the house
and got out his bicycle and rode
down into Tidborough.
He was just in time. The news
had been well kept, or those early
days had not the meaning it came
to have. Nevertheless a few people
stood about the High Street‘in the
thin light of the young morning,
They were inarching at ease, their
rifles slung.
and when, almost immediately, the
battalion came swinging out of the
Market Place, many appeared flank
ing it, mostly women.
“Here they come!”
Frightful words! Sabre caughe
them from a young woman spoken
to a very old woman whose arm
she held a few paces from where he
stood. Frightful words! He caught
his breath, and, more dreadfully
upon his emotions, as the head of
the column came into sight, the
band, taking them to the station,
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C. B. POUNCEY, City Marshal.
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burst into the Pinks’ familiar quick- ’
step.
i
The Camp Town races are five
miles long,
Doo-da! Doo-da!
The Camp Town races are five I
miles long,
Doo-da! Doo-da! Day!
Gwine to run all night. Gwine to .
run all day.
I bet my money on the bob-tail *
nag,
Somebody bet on the bay!
He never in his life had experi
enced anything so utterly frightful
or imagined that anyhting could be
so utterly frightful. His throat felt
bursting. His eyes were filled. They
were swinging past his, file by file.
Doo-da! Doo-da! Day He scarcely;
could see them. They wire march-i
ing at ease, their rifles slung. They ,
seemed to be appallingly laden with
stupepdous packs and multitudinous i
equipmetn. A tin mug and God |
knows what else besides swung and 1
rattled about their thighs. The wo- i
men with them were running to keep
up, and dragging children, and j
stretching hands into the ranks, and !
crying—all crying.
. . Doo-da! Doo-da!
The Camp Town races are five
miles long.
Doo-da! Doo-da! Day!
He thought, “Damn that infernal
music.” He wiped his eyes. This
was impossible tj bear . . . Doo-da! |
Doo-da! A most frightful thing hap-.
pened. A boy broke out of the ranks j
and came running, all rattling and |
jingling with swinging accoutre- j
ments, to the woman beside Sa
bre, put his arms around her and
cried in a most frightful voice,
“Mother! Mother!” And a sergeant,
also rattling and clanking, dashed up
and bawled with astounding ferocity,
“Get back into the bloody ranks!”
And the boy ran on, rattling. And
the old woman collapsed prone upon
the pavement. And the sergeant, as
though his amazing ferocity had been
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patted her, rattling, and said, “That’s
| all right, Mother. That’s all right.
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II
The column passed and was gone.
Ke could do nothing now. Four
■ o’colck in the morning. But he must
.do something now. He followed to
the station. The men were entrain
ing. Presentely his opportunity came
in a sight of Colonel Rattray, who
commanded the depot and was not
going, standing for a minute alone.
Sabre said, feeling extraordinarily
embarrassed, “I say, Colonel, I want
to get into this.”
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