Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-12-22

ne watcher IN the street, under MS
wild desire to revenge himself for
his misfortunes on her, who had
never added to them by one iota, felt
a sudden pang for the woman he was
about to drag back into his life.
The lover in the background looked
kindly and true and protecting as he
followed her down to the waiting car
rage He bent to help her as she
got in, and she flashed a pretty little
smile at him. a smile full of love and
trustfulness in his brave, reliant
presence.
Then they drove away, and the
street was quiet again, and only the
crowding thoughts in the watchers
mind kept carnival To e4w ia
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4, He stole into the theater by and by
when he, was. tired of thinking out
In the streets, and he found a cor
ner where he could see them without
being seem @ For a time he watched
the changing expressions on herface
as the play went on; the tender glad
ness that overspread It when she
turned to speak to her lover, the sum
ny.l sweetness of! her smile at some
! pretty bit of the dainty story. He
/ saw the wistful shadows deepen in
her eyes when a fair mother clasped
her laughing baby to her breast. And
perhaps it was pity that they had
had none. A pity, did he say? He
was forgetting; it was well--well, in
deed, for such as him, His better ma
ture, hidden somewhere all these
long years, was creeping out like a
thing long hidden, shamed of its very
existence. .ga,{ar ..,.aacaf.
He felt suddenly sorrow for his
wife, for himself, for the other man
It would be fearfully, bitterly hard
for her he seemed to realize all at
once; and why was he so eager to
revenge himself on her? She had not
caused his ruin, his downfall. On the
contrary, she had pleaded with him
on her knees-on her knees, he re-
membered, With tears streaming from
those gentle eyes and a voice broken
by sobs, she had pleaded with him to
go away. from his temp tdtions and
shis friends and start life anew with
her. And. he had laughed at her.
Y sHIe 0emembered lthe5 scehei Il as O it
were yesterday; but, the memory
struck him eoldly as the fingers Of
some chilling, wind oAndc then an
other thought came to him, and at
first ehe, could have laughed outright
at the madness of the suggestion.
Why not go away now, back to
Cuba back to the ether life, safe into
OBLIVION again, and leave her as he
had found her-free? What? After
he had come only to find her, after
he had laid his plans so carefully and
we'll. after he was fully determined
to stop her making some one else and
herself happy--leave herr g3 aai al
And YETI And YETI ,.s,-,.r,.
She had known bitter sorrow, and
her youth had been shortened by that
SORROW She was young no longer
Her eyes looked weary now and the
smile had faded from her lips as she
sat back in the shadows. Would she
never smile again after he had re-
claimed her? ao uJil5 G.G.
A great resolve was forming itself
in his mind He would go away
again as he had come, into the dim
ness of the unknown, into that far
world across the seas. He would
fight out his battles by himself.
who knows? 1 might do better" he
said, musingly. At any rate. she
should be free; free to love a good
man, free to be happy. and to smile
as she had smiled tonight, free from
him.
five never done a good deed in my
life before he said to himself, mock
ingly "But I'll do one now. God
knows, 1t costs me something, but I'll
do it,
And then he gave her one look
the last---as she smiled again into
the happy face of the other man, and
stole away into the night