The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-09-20

n IL fpAAttaAAH3 III q UOOhs
L Eugene read report Of the accide
t In the next mornings paper. He "
. on the train, having Just left for N,
i York on business, and with less ie
!; ure would probably have overlook
a the obscure item.
a LEGS BROKEN.
q. A. Minafer. an employee OF the A
ers Chemical company was run down
an automobile yesterday at the corner
u Tennessee and Main and had botfi le,
d broken. Minafer was to blame for II
!. accident. according to Patrolman F. 4
:, Kax. who witnessed the affair. The autt
molile was a small one driven by Herbel
Cottleman OF A73 Noble avenue. who stat
. ed that he was making less than fou
miles an hour. Mlnafer is said to belon
!, to family formerly of considerable prom
inence In the city. He was taken to tn
, City hospital, where physicians state,
later that he was suffering from interna
injuries besides the fracture of his legs
but might recover.
Eugene read the item twice, Their
tossed the paper upon the opposite seal
of his compartment. and sat looking
out of the window. His feeling toward
George was changed not a jot by his
human pity for Georges human pain
and injury. He thought of Georges
tall and graceful figure, and he shlv-
cred, but his bitterness was untouched.
He had never blamed Isabel for the
weakness which had cost them the few
years Of happiness they might have
had together; he had put the blame
all on the son, and 1t stayed there.
He began to think poIgnantly of Isa-
bel. He closed his eyes and saw her
as she had been long ago. He saw the
brown-eyed, brOwn-haired, proud, gen.
tie, laughing girl he had known when
first he came to town, boy just out
Of the State college. He remembered
las he had remembered ten thousand
times befOre-the look she gave him
when her brother George introduced
him to her at picnic; 1t was "Iike
hazel starlight" he had written her, In
a poem, afterward. He remembered
his first call at the ANDERSON mansion,
and what great parsonage she
seemed, at home in that magnificence;
and yet so gay and friendly. He re-
membered the first time he had danced |
with her-and the old waltz song be-
gan to beat In his ears and in his
heart.
All the way to New York it seemed
to him that Isabel was near him, and
he wrote of her to Lucy from his hotel
the next night:
Il saw an account Of the accident
of George Minafer. I'm sorry. though
the paper states that it was plainly
his own fault. l suppose it may have
been as a result of my attention fall
ing upon the item that thought of his
mother a great deal on the way here.
1t seemed to me that l had never seen
her more distinctly or so constantly.
out, as you know, thinking of his moth I.
er is not very apt to make me admire
him! OF course, however, he has my
best wishes for his recovery"
He posted the letter. and by the
mail received one from Lucy
written few hours after his depar-
ture from home. She inclosed the item
he had read on the train and wrote:
u thought you might not see it
have seen Miss Fanny and she
has got him put into a room by him.
self. Oh, poe. iNdes-D Down verythingl
| have been thinking so constantly of
his mother and 1t seemed to me thar I
nave never seen her more distinctly.
how lovely she was-and how she
loved him!"
II Lucy had not written this letter
hente 70 his train for home. Never
lid he so seem to move through a
world Of dream-stuff; for he knew
hat he was not more credulOus than
ther men, and If he. could believe
THAT he had believed, though he had
elieVed it for no longer than a mo-
nent or two. what hold had he or
ny other human being on reality?
His credulity vanished Cor so he
hought) with his recollection that it
1as he, and not the alleged. "LOpa,'
yhO had suggested the word amber"
iOing over the Notifying, plain
acts of his experience, he found that
frs. HOrner, or the subdivision of
frs. HOrner known as "Lopa," had
old him to think of bell and of a
olor, and that being furnished with
hese scientific data, he had leaped
0 the conclusion that he spoke with
sabel Anderson
For a moment he had believed that
sabel was there, believed that she,
vas close TO him, entreating him--en-
reating him "tO be kind" But with
his recollection a strange agitation
anne upon him. After all, had she
lot spoken to him? II his own I'M
Inown consciousness had told the
'psychic's" unknown consciousness
low to make the picture of the pref
y brOwn-haired, brown-eyed lady,
hadn't the true Isabel-Oh, indeed her
very soul i-called to him ont Of his
,Un trup rnamorv of bar9