Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1909-11-09
ONE or CUPID'S WAYS
The lifted Girl and the Man Who
Couldn't Make Love.
BY SARAH LINDSAY COLEMAN.


there was promise Of a fine sunset.
Brooks cazed steadily from the win
dow on the unpcturesquc side Of the
car Even when the passengers crowd
Ell to the other side to look into the
valley far below them and at the
mountains mountains pilcd on top Of
mountains-he sat motionless
AS the Country club was passed DE
showed some interest
1t was Miss IIilderbrand' afternoon
to pour ten there six months before
when Miss Hilderbrand had poured
tea, Brooks sat on the clubhouse steps
The laughter of gay voices had drifted
through the open windows to him.
The club members seemed very gay.
Brooks was Il club member, but he
was not gay.
An illness had sent him to the resort
town to recuperate. Most of the hotel
people belonged to the club. and he
had Joined 1t seemed to him good
way 20 get rid of the time that hung
so heavily on his hands
But he didn't care for golf; he
couldn't dance: he knew so little Of the
new books and the old pictures, the
thousand and one things they talked
about He was an alien Looking up.
he saw Miss Hilderbrand ON the step
above him.
Miss IIilderhrand was the leader of
the taShiOnableS that ran the Country
club. Her clothes were initiated. her
speeches repeated.
Brooks had wondered that 80 re-
served woman could be as popular.
Z La uCI cd that the rh3rm OF dis
tinction was in her high bred face and
then thought 10 more about her Wo-
men were not much in his line either.
Miss Hilderhrand had smiled down
on him and said that she wanted him
to come in and drink tea with her
And when she smiled the question Of
| her popularity was settled
After that day Brooks became Il real
member of the club. The women left
younger men to talk TO him. The men
slapped him on the back, invited him
to drinks and voted him fine old
chap
He began to enjoy the life and the
new spirit OF friendiness that per-
vaded the atmosphere There was no
more talk OF leaving this circle OF
bright, prettY women and jolly fellows
Brooks realized that lie owed the
change to Aliss Hiderbrand. Once he
asAed her why she had taken him up,
and she replied that she was sorry Tor
| lonely things.
Six months had made Il new man OF
Brooks and stil he fingered
People had come and gone. as they
d. ut resort hotels but Miss Hiidcr-
brand had not gone.
The afternoon had again come for
her to pour tea for the club members,
bur she had sent her excuses.
Johnston. friend and fellow citizen
OF hers, said that she had gone ON the
mountain to be alone and get grip
on herself: that q telegram had brought
her bad news.
/ The car climbed slowly
Brooks hadn't the slightest idea what
the trouble was nor what assistance he
could render. There was but one de-
sire in his honest heart, and that was
10 help her. How he would do it hadn't
been revealed; but. with his usual di-
rectnesS, he had followed her to find
out.
On the mountain top the band play
ed, and gay groups OF people moved in
every direction.
Brooks came upon Miss Hiiderbrand.
solitary in the midst of the crowd.
The glow OF the sunset was on her,
and as he came mp she smiled un-
steadily.
'I'm sorry you've heard it, 1 leave
tomorrow. hoped it would not be
found out, but OF course everybody
will know"
I'm not everybody" said Brooks
stOutly. II came because | want TO
comfort lonely things. What can 1
dO?"
Miss Hildcrbrand's glance went over
Brooks stout figure and came back 20
his clear eyes. The two faces were in
sharp cOntrast-in his the rugged
strength Of more simple civilization,
in the girls the suggestion Of extreme
culture.
'I'm glad you came" she said quite
simply. "Fll like to remember it when
I've become a dressmaker. That's what
I've been up here decidlng-what TO do
with myself now that the moneys
swept away. Dressmaking is my only
real talent. and" with another attempt
at a smile, I'm thought to be such an
accomplished young woman"
"But there's McAdOO." Brooks spoke
that name with difficulty. Among the
men there was one he detested. and
1t was Miss Hilderbrand's fiance.
Haven't you taken him into your ar.
rangemeutsT'
HE hasn't taken me into his ar.