Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1903-12-15
THE OTHER ONE.


low stuuent,lGustav, whom me
less oiten at the university thai
outside OF IL. he w,is good
looking, well.brcd and agreeabl,
fellow with only one fanlt-a ten
dency TO sentinentalitN Eycrl
few weeks he had a fresh attack
inspired bE a new object. / be
came so accustomed TO these Wis
itations that they ceased TO alarm
me, but in his fittl semester lac
fell in love, at a ball, with one
Kitty, a person unknown TO me
! From that moment, his condition
grew rapidly worse. Formerly,
he had been only unhappy, but
now, at times, be was actually in
despair. | should not have mind
ed il so much if he had not had the
pleasant habit of indicting him
self upon me when he felt worst.
During six days of good humOr,
/ would see nothing of him, but on
the seventh he would come, al
most in tears, for consolation. /
offered him my worst cigars, but
at such times he could not tell a
Porto Rico from Nuelta de
Abajo, and he kept on coming.
"Nhat is the use of friends" he
said, IF one cannot go to them for
advice?"
Now, when man comes to me
for advice he never comes in vain.
As soon as | know what the
trouble is | give him the best adj
vice | have, and so | did with Gus
tav whenever he came. First,
listened calmly to his story-al-
ways the same and not even orr
ginal. Traces of it, think, have
been found in the oldest Hindu lit
erature. 1t may be called the
story of the girl whom one can
neither marry nor forget. heard
the Kitty version of it several
times. At the conclusion of it
always leaned comfortably back
IN my chair, inhaled with appar
ent enjoyment the OdOr of my vile
cigar, and proceeded to analyze
the case, cOldly, mercilessly, al |
most cynically, and with a fine
contempt of euphemism. Usual
ly, l concluded about as follows
MY dear Gustav, there is only
one possible course"
"Well, what is it?" impa-
tiently).
you must either marry her or
forget her"
But he would not, or he could
not follow this unexceptiOnable
advice, and grew worse weekly.
One day as | was beginning my
disquisitiOn he sprang TO his feet
in great excitement, and snarled:
81 know what / am about and
made for the door.
I restrained him, and when he
had become calmpr he explained
that he had an appointments and
mast go. So he went without my
advice, and left me much hurt
such IS gratitude,
y few uays afterwards. I saw !
him in the street--Orruthcr. saw |
a }oung lady who was 50 exceed !
inGiy pretty that had no eyes Tor |
the gentleman by her side. Il was |
nor until / had passed and turned
TO gel another glimpse Of the lady
that | recognized Gustav and
them only because hp turned,
caj.cd and waved his hand. had
never seen him look SO hapyv. No
This girl with Tie smile
Of child and the eyes of WON
nm had bcwitchcd me with
glance. Whether he could marry
her or not had no means ofknow-
ng, but that he could not forget
her became suddenly as clear as
day. \ few days after this met
Linn again. II was Il fine. warm
summer evening, after a shower,
one Of those rare, delightful
evenings. when life seems light
as air, when everybody one meets
is smiling and apparently strOlling
for pleasure. But Gustav had
on his tragic mask, and
looked wan and troubled. He
greeted me with melancholy
nod, and said: -"COme with me"
We walked along in silence. From
time to time / turned to look into
his rueful cOuntenance, and at
last / said, very decidedly: Gus
tav, you are a foOlw
Instead of showing resentment,
he merely said, sadly: "What do
you know about it?"
81 know this" replied. "When
a man has so charming a sweet
heart as you have, and yet goes
about with such a face as yours,