Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-09-24

not nd him as a passenger since the
day when he had ridden to Tregarthen
on a fare paid To kingville. In view of
these unsuccessful Investigations, Lud-
lows well-simulated Indifference to
his wife's anxiety was worthy of all
praise.
Don't you worry about Hugh" he
said; he'll turn up all right when he
gets good and rsadS. l suppose he and
Hester had some little tiff and he's gone
OF to sulk."
1T isn't anything of the kind" she
insisted. "llrStcr'S been here this
morning, and she told me all about it.
! They parted good friends. and she's
sure something dreadful has happened
to him. Don't YOU know any of his
friends in New York to whom you could
telegraph"
mo; and il Ibid. they wouldn't know.
lie hasn't had lime to get to New York,
unless lac went in a balloon"
Il don't care, think it's perfectly
! hcartlcsS of YOU to Ice 50 Indifferent
al'out him; one would think you'd care
n little hit about what became of him"
Ludlow put his arm around her and
! Fitted her face 80 that he could look into
her eyes. Perhaps I'm not 80 indif-
ferent, after ALL" he said. Tell me
what Won wish me To do. and I'll go do
| il, if I have TO let the furnace freeze
while the men turn out to hunt for
/ him"
THAT is what ought Ia he done-to-
morrow. anyway. llrstcr's gone to ask
her father Ia ride along the mountain
/ 10 see if anyone has heard of him, and
! Henry will 60 To Dunbar. fthcy can't
! end ont anything, think YOU ought To
get up a search party. Now, Tom,
/ there's one thing more. Tell me why
| YOU thought Hugh wouldn't have any
| thing To do with the fcud il he knew
about il -
ludlow saw he was upon the brink,
AMI braccd himself for the plunge, but
he cvasively asked: when did say
/ anything like that?"
why. YOU rcmembcr-the first time
We were talking about him and Hester;
you said he'd have Ia he very much
changed FROM the man you used To
! know if he consented to assume any
such responsibilities"
did | say that?"
''Of course you did; and want 70
know what il meant, and all about it,"
why, | didn't mean anything i'm par
ticular, except that Hugh was always a
pcaccable fcllow-a man who avoids
rows as a eat picks her way around
pool of water"
There's more than that to il, Tom,
dear, and you might just as well tell me
first as last. Hasn't he been talking 10
you about this-this idiosyncrasy of
his?"
Ludlow dropped into his chair with
groan. Il knew Just how il would be-"
he said: and then he told her what he
could remember of the conversation in
which Ringbrand had confessed his in
| ability to face danger and the bearing
this would have upon his relations with
Hester and her family. 'IIe said he
was going 10 try TO fight it out with
himself, and that if he failed we needn't
he surprised il he turned up missing,
because he wouldn't have the face to
say good-by. Now you know the whole
of il, and why haven't been borrowing
any trouble about his disappearance.
| concluded at once that he'd made a
miss-go of his fight and had decided
that discretion Was the better part of
valor."
Mrs. Ludlow pursed up her lips and
walked airily around 10 her place at the
dinner-table. Tom" she said, smiling
serenely across the table at him, I'm
positively ashamed of YOU. DO you sup
pose for a moment that Hugh would
have stayed here all this time making
love 20 Hester when he knew all aloeq
that he wasn't going 10 have the coI'-
age 10 stand up for her when be
'nsterous things, aGd / dent '-.e-
81, ich is the more ridiculous 90 ~
~arSlity in telling vou, or yours in be-
'ic- ing him."
dlow fell back in his chair in an
at. Jude of helpless despair. "Helen,
my dear. you'd make an angel weep;
YOU would, indeed! What have TO do