Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-08-23

hitth ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. re Wu1 tHtIC
he announced. for rest and recreation
after a strenuous season on the stock
market In Wall street Need It be
recorded how he swept everything
before him? How mammas courted
him and papas gave him little dinners
at the club, how clubs and societies
strove for the privilege Of entertain
ing him as an honored guest--and how
the maidens, betrothed and unbe-
trothed, smiled upon him? Nay. the
dullest imagination can see all that.
Then one day the town was startled
with an elopement Yes. sad as It
was, Agnes had eloped with T.
Seymour Esterly In most spectacular
manner, leaving a dramatic note to
Homer that she had made a great mis-
take, but had saved both him and her
self by recognizing the fact that they
were not mates before II was too late
thanks to the fact that her true
affinity had appeared And she begged
him to forget her unworthy self and to
find some maiden who could appre-
ciate his good and true qualities AS
though she did not well know that
there could be any other woman in
his simple honest life
The months sped and strange re
ports came regarding the clipping
couple. The final one was that the
Mr.. T. Seymour Esterly was a common
adventurer-in fact valet of a distin-
guished member of the stock exchange
who while taking a trip abroad had
left his establishment In the hands of
his valet And the valet with the curb
off had started out in search of adj
venture with his employers automo-
bile and clothes and had succeeded
In infaming the Imagination of the
ambitious country belle and inducing
her to elope with him. And sadder
than all It was whispered that he had
not married her at all and that she
was living in miserable quarters the
very creature of his whims.
Homer Dent had survived the blow
with the stoicism which ever had
been his saving grace God alone
knows what it meant to him and the
hours of mortal agony he suffered,
but he made no sign and plodded on
as he ever had.
And one day many, many months
after the catastrophe there came to
him a letter-oh such a pathetic and
hopeless and tear-stained letter from
the lady of his dreams. The end had
come. She was deserted, alone and
without friends, money or hope. Her
own people had cast her off-and she
did not blame them. Her board was
paid for the balance Of the week Then
she had resolved to end the whole
miserable business and let the silent
river tell the story if 1t would. Only
she could not go out of the world with
out letting Homer know how keenly
she appreciated her mistake and how
much better she knew than he, his
nobility of character.
Il am saying these things, not to
justify myself nor with any hope OF
the future" she wrote. But want
you to know your own worth which
you always have underestimate and
discredited. People in this world are
taken on their own valuation. Since |
went away from the truest lover
ever maiden had / have seen many |
men of all degrees, and want to tell |
you for your own good that you are |
better and stronger and Drawer than |
any of them. When am gone wish |
you might forgive me for my dis |
loyalty to you-God knows have suf- |
fered enough for It. And / wish ! |
might awaken in you some concep-
ton of your own power. If you could |
appreciate II all success and all hap /
piness would be yours. All business |
success would open to you If only you
would demand it-and all women
Sould lie at your feet If you would /
instead of beg. This is the
only reparation can make-to
awaken you to your own possibilities.
It is a poor one, but believe me it is
attempted in all sincerity and with all
he love which woman can feel toward
mana love intensified a thousand
lines because she knows she has
sacrificed it. And 1t should have all
he weight of voice from the grave
next Monday will be num-
,ered with the dead"
Long and prayerfully did Homer
Dent struggle with this letter. 1t re-
lindled all the passion of his first and
,nly love and he realized all the
errible consequences of her fall
finally in the cold gray dawn he
brew his meager wardrobe into a
runk and wrote a letter to his en-
,loyer resigning his position and
tating he was going away to be mar
led and would not return. ,
Later he drew his money from the ,
avings bank and boarded train for
he city praying he would arrive in
ime.
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