Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-11-29

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How dreadful
Here is Mr.. Curtis and the only sea
left is beside Mrs. Curtis. / did no
expect you, sir, and had arranged tina
seat for Baron Sternhold. Now you az
pear Unexpectedly and | this momen
receive a note from the baron that h,
is unexpectedly detained. l was sur,
Mrs. Curtis said you would e. -
here. Well. of all things-that = maj
and his wife should be seated lisa
Wis at box party"
And there was ripple of laughter
as Mr.. Curtis gravely seated himself
beside his wife. Her fan trembleC
just perceptibly and the eyes still scan
ming the audience were unseeing eyes
''Inasmuch as we are on dress pa
rade and in full public view," he said
leaning over and whispering in hel
ear, 1T might be best to act it out
and display enough decent interest In
each other so as not to crafty the
fierce longing for scandal which per
You are quite right" she replied
colby. 81 did not expect you. ]
thought you started for Mexico to
day"
II decided to defer 1t until tomor.
row" he replied. IF It were possible
for you to smile pleasantly-not at
me. you know, but at somebody In the
audience, 1t might serve to lessen the
interest Of the dear friends about
u.s." 49,.
IF you could think OF some subject
for sustained conversation it might be
easier" she said.
"a Il will" he answered sharply, turn
ing toward her. 81 will tell you the
story of great love and its unhappy
end.
THE hero was but an uniformed
boy. thrown into the realities Of life
early because he happened to have
been born into the dollhouse atmos-
phere of money and society. He
thought he was mature, experienced
and even blaze, when really he was
more ignorant himself than the COM
monest clod.
We'll. this pathetically unequipped
hero fell in love with the heroine, OF
course. Yes, he truly fell in love. He
hardly knew it at the time, for he was
a selfish young animal and little un-
derstood what love really meant. Per.
haps 1t was more desire than love.
Anyway he won the heroine.
And then, you see, trouble began.
He was a primitive sort of animal and
his real civilization only began to be
foreshadowed when he married the
heroine. He demanded everything,
gave little, and thought less. And all
the time he knew that she loved him.
And he loved her, too more blindly
and passionately every moment that
he did the very things to kill her love.
"Of course the end was bound TO
come. There were chickering's and
scenes and there was brutal indiffer.
ence and eXasperating sights.
And finally the crash came. The
bitter things she said in answer to
the bitter things he said ranked in
his heart until he no longer could
stand it, and he determined TO &c
away and forget. So the hero and the
heroine agreed to disagree and the
hero was to have left for Mexico to
iay-and never trouble the heroine
more"
And why did he not go?" asked the
woman.
He went 10 the train and boarded
t." the man replied, regarding her
"but the flood gates of his
memory opened and the tide of his
great love swept over him and the
that there was TO be this
box party came to him, aud he knew
'he would be here-and the hunger of |
his heart drove him to leave the
rain to come here and see her once
more, II only from distance. And /
re is boy no longer. but a man who /
has put away boyish things forever"
"The heroine" said the woman very |
Oftly, was also very young and had
lever been taught many things She
hould have known. She never knew |
bout tact and-and-that sort of
hing. She also had a great love which
rev with the years, but did not know
low 10 express IT,"
Don't you think the hero might
ave another chance-that they
night start over again. he said Gag
rly. |
The smile she turned toward him
las so soft and womanly that the face
the woman was transformed. !