Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1909-10-26

self for doing it. 1t was not his way
to ruin his health Intentionally. Then
Porter came putting in and flung HIM
self into a chair. He knew he was not
wanted ana did not care. lie begaw
TO laIk
liking. you precious donkey Pval
cooked your goose.
And mixed your metaphors shame
Iessly. Get out and let me alone"
you precious idiot" persisted Por-
ter. don't stick your stubborn head
into the sand and imagine the world is
blind. You're selfish past words. You
think only of yourself and don't mind
whom you hurt OF course nobody
cares If you want to suffer, but how
about-her? You chase after Der, your
eyes like the moon following the sun, /
in this fool friendship game which de-
ceives 40 one What business haveJ
you TO punish an innocent girl because
her grandmother willed her a fortune p
How could she know your confOunded
pride would shy at it2 You needn't
try to shut me up; I'm talking for
once, can't see why n man can
cooliy take wOman's beauty and
youth. every quality of heart and mind.
all the real things she has to give, and
use them like water or daylight and
then baik at the paltry money she is
not to blame for having and which ISL
less to her than-weil, infinitely less
than a single kiss! What IL she has
dollars? You have sense-Or used tOl
have"
II still have enough to hate yo@r''
cheap puns. Porter. Get out of her..
Il won't. Take that from me AND
wait till finish. And you've set Tee
old pussies whispering about her.
Have you heard the news? No? Wei, !
her cousin told me tonight that she,
Rose Law, has made over every coat
of her money TO an orphan asylup
and is leaving early tomorrow morn
ing for New York TO take a course IN
nursing They all think she's crazy,
and she is. Girls are like tha IN
stories and ont of them. When "
think love has failed them they want
to be good to suffering world. Shei
is going to have the papers, the decd
of gift. made when she gets there
Now. I'm an orphan. You might have
given the vile stuff to me if you would
not let the child have it to play with
herself, while you made her happy mi
your own Independent, imbecile way.
I'm sick of you. It's too late for you
to do anything, 50 I'll use the phone
in the outer Office and GO"
As in a daze, not hearing the words,
King was conscious of POrters phOn-
ing then Of his putting his head in at
the door again.
Il told you I cooked your goose,
King. began. as l left Morton's, by
telling Miss Law that you we're sud-
denly called away on business, but
were coming back as soon as possibbel
to bid her goodby and asked me to
beg her to wait for you In the garden,
since she was there when l saw her.
1t will be n romantic setting"
King was too furious 20 speak. He,
thought it a very bad joke in the worst
possible OF Porter's always question
| able taste. But 1t dawUed on him that
| It was no Joke. and he rose apgrfly.
Porter continued: 'My voice, yOu
! know. is strangely like yours just
called her up by phone and said you
would be there in a moment. She
said ii was too hate. and told her,
| you would see her or rouse the house
and that you would tell her what you
| had TO say if the assembled family 3
had to hear It too. She said she would \
be in the garden. It's not much past
| 10 and not far Hurry
He fed before King could drive him
| out.
Willing to stay Porter. hoping, then
! fearing. that he joked or lied, he set J
Off on the chance Of finding her in the
garden. But he was certah of one
/ thing, two thiAss-his OWE heart and 4
the great soft mssH FIe bud no be
| lief that she could care. But he saw
| himself with Porter's eyes. whleG \
| were. after all. clear aud honest.
And he fouRd her in the garden. b
happy chance. however as Porter was 4
| ever gifted WIKI a fRe imagination.
He came on her suddenly. ard she
turned in . torrer real enough till she
saw who it was. Sac tre@baed.
IT'S warm I'm the house, and s.
couldn't sleep E's lovely here"
ITS lovely wherever yea are and y
misery where var are not Oh Rose! n
| Oh Rose, Could y9u love me a little? N
| You will act so away wHl yss:'
/ He held his 2Esas ode fer her, and 4
1 she did nor depv the ca}i.