Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-12-04
WON FROM DEFEAT.
His Greatest Success Came to
Him in the Midst Of Failure.
BY MAY c. RINewALT.

I'm tired and sick of IT," sighed
Letitia, her complaining voice rasping
upon Digby's nerves like the rough
touch OF sand paper. -Housework from
morning till night. Cooking a meal.
eating meal, washing dishes after a
meal-that's all have in my life'
Instinctively Digby looked about the
coy living room with the bright flames
in the open fireplace, the bright flow.
ers from the home garden that Letitia
had so artistically arranged in their
pretty yases-with Mildred's new
piece of music on the open piano,
Toms violin case in the corner, Pinks
reversible doll SPRAYING on the sofa,
the black Dinah head uppermost.
Il might as well talk to stone wall
as to you, Digby,' his wife went on
querulously. Sitting there like a
craven image staring into space and
enthusiastically smiling!"
Il wasn't conscious OF smiling"
apologized Digby, but it seems so
pleasant here-so honey and com
Portable"
yes, very pleasant and comfort
able" she repeated sarcastically,
when all you have to do is to sit down
and take your ease"
Again Digby found it impossible to
put his thoughts into words, but as the
sense of WEAKNESS that he had shaken
of as he contentedly seated himself
in his arm chair swept over him once
more, his mind turned back to the
long, hard days work in his orange
grove.
1.-THE crop won't be as large as last
spring." he said with exasperating ir
relevance, but never saw finer val
encias than we have this year"
Letitias lips curled,
And what good will it do us?" she
cried, adroitly using the turn in the
Conversation for new angle Of fault
finding. You'll simply put in more
trees. Spend the money in new irri.
eating ditches-new piping. I'll have
nothing to show for it, --.saSs
'Letitia," he asked with a puzzled
quicker in his forehead, what are you
driving att"
I'm driving at being poked away
on stupid ranch year in and year out
instead Of spending our winters in
town like other people!"
He understood at last-their next
door neighbors' proposed fitting to
Los Angeles was responsible for lie
titia's sudden discomfort.
My dear" he Numbered, pleased at
having so reasonable an argument to
offer, Jim Morton's position is very
diffefent from mine. He married a
rich wife, and"
And you only penniless orphan!"
The red danger signals flared in Lee
titia's cheeks and her black eyes
flashed. But l can tell you right now,
Digby Hollister, if was only a coun
try school teacher when you married
me, had more money then to spend
on myself than I've ever had since.
More good times. More-everything
And If I'd known--if only I'd known
what an endless grind married life
was, Ia nave renamed single 10 my
dying day!"
'Letitia, do you mean that?"
Yes, | mean that-and a great
many other things that wouldn't be
pleasant for you to heart"
And dashing down the magazine
whose leaves she had been cutting,
Letitia took fight in a tempest of
anger and tears.
One day followed another, and
strangely enough the world went ON as
though nothing had happened. But to
Digby the sweetness had suddenly
gone out of the meadow lark's liquid
music. No longer was there warmth
and color and beauty in the cloudless
sky, in the deepening gold of the