Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-05-17
LOVE AT
SECOND SIGHT.
sY ADA avn DUDLEY JAMEs.

"Tm about sick Of this place"
remarked Bobby Dawes discon.
tentedly to the snow-clad noun
tains. 'To-morrow | shall pack
up and 60 home"
The snow-cIad mountains
vouchsafed no reply and Bobby
Dawes, with that feeling of sat
isfaction which the taking of any
resolution, good or bad, engen-
Iders--rose to his feet and saun-
tered along the baking lake side
walk of LuganO back to his hotel
There was no installing Bobby
Dawes nationality as he strOlled
idly along under the trees. Tall,
fair, well turned out, a gray suit,
Panama hat, an irreprOachable
tie, he looked the possible hero
of many amatOry adventures, al
though few had ever fallen to his
lot. Amatory adventures require
reciprocity, and Bobby Dawes had
rarely, if ever, reciprocated.
Arriving at his hotel, he com
municated his decision to the
stout head porter. That astutc
individual declared himself "des-
olate," and expressed his disbelief
that Bobby could have adequate
ly inspected the numerous lions Of
the locality in SO short a time.
He speedily ascertained that
M'sieu had not yet visited the To-
cal mountain, San Salvatore.
1T was impossible" he said,
decidedly, with a shrug of his
massive shoulders, ''for M'sieu to
leave without ascending the ia
nous funicular,n And, before
Bobby could protest effectually.
it had been arranged for him to
postpone his departure by at least
one day and to ascend the noun
tain by the first funicular in the
morning.
Thus it was that an early hour
on the ensuing day found Bobby
Dawes reluctantly enscOnced in
a corner of an ascending car,
Heaven fervently that
modern inventions had relieved
the traveller from the painful la
Dor of mountain climbing.
He admired the usual view, dis
liked the usual wind, bought and
dispatched the usual postcards.
the usual book, and,
honor being satisfed-honor is
easily satisfied in that climate
prepared to descend.
A simple act enough, but
fraught with the most mOmen
tOus consequences to Bobby
Dawes.
Suffering acutely from chatter
ing tourists, he leaned well our
from his corner seat watching the
other car as it approached, won
lering idly when they would meet
md pass. 1t was some 20 yards
,ff when his eye was caught by
white and frily hat adorned with
punches of red cherries.
A rather smart hat, he thought
azily to himself. A decidedly
smart hat And, by George! as
he car drew near-what a lovely
girl!
He gazed at her speIl-bound,
moved to the very depths of his
being.
"What glorious violet-blue.
gray eyesw he murmured to him
self. "What a wealth of softly
waving golden brown hair! What
a perfectly indescribable air of
indescribabilityw he went on in
cOherently.
Their eyes met for "A moment
to him it seemed an eternity; the
car passed on and she was gone.
And Bobby began to realize he
had met the only woman he could
ever love on the car of funicular
railway, while he was going down
and she was going up. Every mo-
ment cruel fate-represented By
a wire rOpe-was dragging them
further apart. Bobby fairly
danced with anxiety on his seat,
straining his eyes uselessly after
the departing car. Immediately
10 ,oo.oboI tho bOttOm he mr.