Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1909-11-13

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Drank worthiDg frowned as be look
IN ND from the code at his partner.
MILAN Butler. who, with his straw
No pushed back on his rumpled fair
',1ir. was still insisting that he leave
Ae office for the rest of the day.
s Confound you. Billy. heat or no
Nat, August or December, fellow
Mats going TO get on in the law sim
~ must do some studying. Can't yoc
10 it through your thick head when
Nv ! am not going that ! mean il?
Ike che girls by yourself if they are
y enough to like your company
init see what anything bigger than
Mild sees in a vaudeville park any
w. Now Billy. get out of here. do!
bur everlasting grin gives me a tenn
rature. and the heat is bad enough
lis afternoon as it is"
4Butler surveyed his friend with elab-
laate pity. "Poor boyr' be commented
sminatingly. HE hasn't been himself
ince he won the big case last month.
sIrns down his friends. hocks by him
III. Must have overwOrked or else
rs in love. Must be love. Perhaps
8e fair Alice will capitulate after all
be ought to after you saved her for
ne from a greedy stepmother. Go
tier it. son. Well, by-by. Me to Grace
hd Marietta and the despised park"
StAlice Lawton, indeed. thought Worth
4g. Well. that idea was better in But
,4rs shallow pate than the real truth
fhmely. that Marietta's sudden fond
less for his partner was eating his
Part out. 1t was always Marietta and
#iIly Butler everywhere. and he used
4 think ii was Grace for whom Billy
hinged. Worthing had known no inner
'eace since Marietta had come last
Winter to live with her cousin. Grace
Hunter. From the first meeting the
frl's dark. little. serious face. sweet
Fes. gay laughter. had not left his
Consciousness. And she had certainly
Qeemed to like him. even to prefer
I'm, to let him monopolize her some
What and even to be demurely glad
shen they were left alone together.
9Gloomily rejecting, he began to won
ser what had changed her. June had
Been a joy time If he had spoken
ben all might have been well, but that
sawton inheritance case came TO him.
fe recognized the professional oppor.
Entity. worked on it like q slave day
Ind night all through July and won,
|eeling that he had now a little better
sasis for offering his heart to the girl
|e loved. tie was also delighted be-
.huse he had done a service TO Alice,
is lifelong friend But what had
banged Marietta?
Finding himself unable to study.
Northing phoned for his car and clos
h the office. He would go for Alice
nd take her fer a spin and have din
Ter at the golf club and then ride
gain till the moon came up. Perhaps
hey might go through the park them
elves. and-nO, he would let Marietta
lone: He recognized that he longed to
ZEE her.
But Alice was not at home and. bit
erly lonely. he motorPd ont into the
ountry. AS the sun set and the cool
+ evening came on his troubled heart
rev more calm. He would reason
With himself, try to see what he had
lone or left undone. why Marietta
Vhen he went back 10 her. flushed and
Oyous with his victory. had received
i'm with the frozen sweetness Of a
ish Of ice cream and thereafter man
ged never TO be with him alone for a
ingle moment. The first time he had
oticed It was once when. with Alice.
Yhom he was taking TO his office. he
net her on the street just in front Of
be building. Her greeting had been
cry cool.
Worthing drew up beneath a great
rec and. taking a little photo of the
.iri from his pocket, looked at ii with
owing inquiry. he recalled that an
Their time that she had been cool to
i'm was when he was telling her how
much 1t meant 10 Alice to get her legal
lights and how glad he was TO nave
'een able to help her. That was at
be golf club dance. and after that she
lad been unable to lind dance for
lin. He sat thinking.
Suddenly it came to him-the ridicu-
Ous little ley TO the solution. He
tartPd the machine, beaded again fol
he city driving like one in sort of
iappy insanity He would go straight
o the park, find her and see her long
nOugh to ask her if he was right II
lie had to toss Billy into the lake to he
id of him. OF course a fellow couldn't
SIX girl directly what he intended to
now. but he was lawyer enough to
xtract from her indirectly all he de-
ired. de could not wait to see her-it
vas all so foOlishly simple.
1t was nearly dusk when. with hope
nd fear mingIing in his heart be
cached the park and, impatienty ODE
lent TO the rules and the watchful
'oIice. crawled slowly along the drives
boxing for a group in which he might