Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1910-08-18

She nad saved a little money and
she planned to make It pay for her
entire setting OUT as Aunt Marshall
called IT, Aunt Marshall gave her as
much as she could from her little
store and added there unto her bless
ing, which Joy felt enriched her more
than all her gifts.
Joy and BILLY we're married and
went away to the city to go to house
keeping in a four-room fiat. JOY
proved to be a marvellous little house
wife; she juggled with the dimes un-
I'll they did the work of dollars; she
kept Billy's clothes in perfect order;
her dinners were the best Of their
kind to be had She never troubled
Billy with complaints or any demon
stration; she simply loved-and wait
ed In return Billy rather neglected
her He was kind and appreciative,
yet he accepted her as a matter of
course. His disappointment was still
recent enough to hurt.
They had been married three years
then the baby came He was beauty
big, dimpled, merry, all smiles and
giggles and with adorable wooing
ways They called him Robert, which
presently resolved itself into Bobby.
Then for the first time Billy woke up
to the fact that Joy was of real i'm
portance; she was his boys mother.
He planned and lived and saved for
that boy. And JOY looked on, sitting
her longing and trying to be content
But 1t seemed long time to wait.
When Bobby was four years old
Aunt Marshall died and left to Joy
the little house in Westmore and
few thousands of dollars, which were
all her worldly possessions. Then, for
the first time, Joy expressed the home
sickness which she had silently en-
dured so long.
Let us go back she pleaded.
"Westmore is better for the boy and
for us, too. We can live in the house
and you can have the money to start
in business with. You'll be sure to
find some opening there"
Billy had fallen into the habit of
N1hAllB JOg ohNANCs AAO hoNNN " ~
back where Haroldine was; he had
not heard anything concerning her in
all the seven years he had been mar
ried and away He still sighed with
unutterable longing when he thought
of her. A mans first love dies hard.
Yet it came to pass that one day he
and Joy packed up their belongings
and set forth for Westmore. Very
quietly they entered the little house
which had been Aunt Marshall's. Very
quietly, also, Billy began to look about
for a way in which to make a living.
He found 1t at last. A partnership in
a good business was for sale and he
bought it it'll joys money and what
he had of his own
From the first day of his arrival he
had been on the outlook for Harold
inc. But Haroldine was not in West
more. He learned that her father had
died the year before and that she had
gone with some friends to California.
1t was not known when she would re-
turn. People had forgotten that Billy
had ever been interested in Haroldine.
Perhaps Haroldine herself had forgot
ten. Certainly it ceased to be living
reality to all save him and Joy.
The business in which Billy engaged
thrived wonderfully. He had brought
to it the experience and now energy
him that he was making money.
Women who, seven years before had
not known Joy, came to call upon her
and ask her to their houses. They
made parties for her. Soon she was
drawn into such a whirl of society
Billy had decided that if they were to
return any of their social obligations
at all they must have a larger house.
He bought lot in the fashionable
quarter of the town and proceeded to
have a house erected upon it, The
ing in it when Haroldine came home.
Joy heard of her return first Then
Billy heard But neither mentioned
the fact to the other.
When invitations came from Mrs.
Herbert Crosby for her MUSCLE on the
9Th, Joy accepted them for himself
and Billy, knowing very well that Har-
oldine would be there. There was a
good deal of anguish, a good deal Of
uncertainty in Joys mind the night
she dressed for the MUSCLE, but she
hid it all under a brave little smile.
She wore a black dress of jetted lace.
In those seven years Joy had grown
becomingly stout.
Men admired Joy and considered
Billy a lucky fellow to have such a
wife. And Billy himself was proud of
her. When he saw her that night
standing beside Haroldine, he felt a
pang of revelation as turned him sick
at heart. Haroldine was still Miss
Ross and with no immediate prospect
of changing her name. Her pale blue
silk looked too young for her. she had
grown visably thinner; her eyebrows
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