Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1907-05-16

irea expenditure OF money couio pro
iduce Nothing on those splendid
noors told Of the strange things above
a sedate luxury pervaded the drawing
rooms. library and dining-room
Bob said to me, IN taking me through
them, Some day lin. Beulah may
recover, may come back to me, and !
want to have everything as she would
wish. everything as she would have
had It If the curse had never come
The third floor was Beulah's. A child's
dainty bedroom: two nurses rooms
adjoining; a nursery, with a child's
small schoolroom and big playroom,
with dolls and doll houses, child's
toys Of every description in abandon,
as though their owner we're in fact
but few years old Across the hall
were three ofices, exact duplicates of
mine, Bob's, and Beulan sands at
Randolph e Randolph's. When | frst
saw them It was with difficulty that !
I brought myself to realize that was
| not where the gruesome happenings
Of year before had taken place Bob
had reproduced to the minutest de-
tails our downtown workshop. stand
ing ia the door of Beulah Sands Of
fee ] faced the fiat desk at which she
had sat the afternoon when ! first saw
that hideous result Of the work of the
System" I could almost see the lit
tie gray figure holding the afternoon
paper In horror my eyes sought the
floor at the side Of the chair in search
of Bob's agonized face and uplifted
hands. AS / stood for the first time
in the middle Of Bob's handiwork,
seemed to hear again those awful
groans.
"Jim," Bob said, Il have haunt
ing idea that some day Beulah will
wake and look around and think she
has been but few minutes asleep.
If she should, she must have nothing
to disabuse her mind until we break
the news to her. / have instructed
her nurses, one or the other of whom
never loses sight of her night or day,
to win her to the habit of spending
her time at her old desk; have told
them always to be prepared for her
awakening, and when 1t comes
they are instantly to shut off the rest
of the floor and house until can get
to her. Here comes Beulah now"
Out of the nursery came a laughing,
happy child-woman. In spite of her
finely developed, womanly figure,
which had lost nothing of its wonder
full beauty, and the exquisite face and
golden-brown hair and great blue eyes,
which were as fascinating as on the
day she first entered the Offices Of
Randolph & Randolph; in spite of the
close-fitting gray gown with dainty
tn. ned-over lace collar could hardly
bring myself to believe that she was
anything but young child. With an
eager look and a happy laugh she
went to Bob and throwing her arms
about his neck, covered his face WITH
kisses.
Good Bob has come back to play
with Beulah," she said, she knew he
would. They told Beulah Bob had
gone away to the woods to gather
pretty flowers. Beulah knew if Bob
had gone to the woods he would have
taken Beulah with him. Now Bob
must play school with Beulah" She
sat at her desk and opened her child's
school-book. With mock severity she
said, Bob. cat What does it spell?"
For half an hour Bob sat and played
scholar and teacher by turns with all
the patience of a fond father With
difficulty l kept back the tears the
sad sight brought to my eyes
For the FIRST year of Bob's marriage
we saw but little of him at the once.
The Exchange saw less. He had wan
dered in upon the floor two or three
times. but did no business and seemed
to take but little interest
The Street" knew Bob had mar
ried the daughter of Judge Lee Sands, !
the victim of Tom Remnants cold |
blooded Seaboard Air Line deal. 9th |
erwise it knew nothing of the affair |
His friends never met his wife. Oc-
casionally they would pass the Brown
ley carriage on the avenue or in the !
park and, taking it for granted that |
the beautiful woman was Mrs. Brown
ley, they thought Bob a lucky fellow.
IL seemed quite natural that his wife |
should choose seclusion after the aw-
full tragedy at her home in Virginia. !
But they could not understand why, |
with such cause for mourning, the
exquisite figure beside Bob in the
victoria should always be garbed in
gray After a while it was whispered
that there was something wrong in
Bob's household Then his friends
and acquaintances ceased to whisper
or to think of his affairs. With all
New York's bad points-and they are
as plentiful as her church spires and
charity bazaars-she has one Offset
ting virtue. If dweller in her midst
to let New York alone, New
York is willing to reciprocate. In her
most crowded fashionable districts a
person may come and go for q life
time, and none in the block In which
he dwells will know when his coming
and going ceases. When a New York
err reads in his newspaper of the man
who lives next door to him, murder