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By JASON LOVF-
The little town of Hoifi-
inffton, Kansas. boasts of
not so very many colored
regidentii but the ones who
do live in that pleasant
little place arc of a decent
type, peaceful homeowners
and lovers of the refine
ments and cultural phases
o f their community life.
Naturally, with slich ideas upper-
moat In their desires and thoughts,
IfoUliigton lias lias long been holed
for Us low divorce rate and free
dom from lurid scandals At least,
such was the case until the Luther
Martins had their terrible snd fa
tal aiUumtouiaudiag which result
ed In the death of Luther and the
string of mysterious and unexplain
able occurrences following In the
wake of Luther's death.
Luther was s clean-cut young fe l
low. in his late twenties and a por
ter on the railway, with a regular
run
from Hoislngton to Lake
Charles, Louisiana. This run kept
him away from home a good bit
of the time, and was, no doubt, the
cause of the catastrophe which
came with startling suddenness
Helene, Luther’s wife, had been
reared In the city of Omaha, and
rame to Hoislngton to live after her
marring? to Luther. Helene was a
beautiful girl, with perfection of
face and figure, which boded ill
for the mental peace of the unmar
ried and unattached males of the
sedate Kansas town to which Luther
brought her shortly after thetr mar
riage
She was the type which uncon
sciously and effortlessly attracts
men. but she was also of the type
which, once the men are attracted,
make no efforts to dissuade them
from
thetr pursuit.
Something
about such pursuit soothed her van
ity and many were the quarrels
between Helen and Luther over the
amorous advances of some of the
bolder
of
Hoisington's
young
swains.
Morton Janies was the most per
sistent of all the many admirers
attracted by the scorching flame
of Helene's candle. Little did he
know that this flame would lead
him to ruin and destruction and
would see Luther dead 1 -om an
"unavoidable accident," and Heleue
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