Morris tribune., 1908-11-28
60 YES w A X S

aeggin to see how 1t Jared with earth
Nnsnd lovers now.
Does 1t not seem strange, dearest :
asked the girl ghost softly as they
aaated along hand in hand just above
Mhe busy, material city of Chicago
.sRhat we were once bound to this
aasTrow earth and had to depend upon
mere words for exchanging thoughts
Man epiniOns?'
@Do you remember, my darling,
sx&s the counter question of the man
@host, 'how we once quarreled and
we're estranged and unhappy for
saany months for communication and
Misunderstood the meaning of the
SzScky things?"
aPDor children! How silly we were
aan8 yet how helpless!" sighed the girl
WsGst pityingly. Things are easier
1fw as in the Land Of Shades
~ wonder do other mere earth low
ana have the same troubles now" she
nnased little later.
Yes, dearest, always" was the man
asAost's smiling answer. I'VE may be
tawe Of it. Loves ways are aye the
ssane."
@Tf we find any of them in trouble
R9 us help them," said the girl ghost
eagerly. II could be unhappy and sor-
apwful now-if I had not forgotten
matw-to think of what and how we
asffered during that terrible estrange-
nent, dearest. What should have we
nave done, how should we have borne
8, had not some one helped us to un-
aerstand each other? could not have
waited until we came up here"
aThere was no need" said the man
ghost tenderly. "Our love was too
strong to let us stay apart"
And for moment the shadowy lips
and arms met and were mingled, just
as though the earth still bound them,
while the shadowy hearts beat near to-
sether, for loves ways are aye the
same for ghosts and humans.
They were floating over pretty
saburb-the suburb where she had
lived and where they had made love
a0gether. On the same veranda where
this had happened-ah, how long ago
other lovers, earth bound lovers, were
sitting silently and little apart. The
ghost lovers read the unuttered
thoughts which kept the girls eyes
stern and yet fearful and the mans
lips tense.
"If he really loved me he would see
that l am not cross, but only troubled,
and he would comfort me with loving
words and caresses."
So ran the troubled meditation Of
the girl,
'If she really loved me she would
see that | am worried to death over
business matters and that need just
little soothing and comforting my
SELF
So the man was thinking moodily.
~ think l will say good night" he
said aloud a moment later, and his
voice was as cold as the heart of win
ser.
Must you go SO early?" And her
voice was just as cold. ....
He rose Immediately and had gone
halfway down the steps without utter
ing any further farewell before the
ghost lovers fully realized all that was
happening. Wrapped in the varied
pecollecttons called up by the little
scene and the surroundings, they were
standing motionless. but hand in hand
STILL just behind the earth couple,
thinking, thinking Now they started
forward simultaneously and whispered
in the ears of the unhappy, misguided
earth lovers.
"Once, long time ago, I acted as
Eous are doing, and my heart nearly
hRoke In consequence"
Thus the ghost man to his earth
brother
"Once, long time ago, let my lover
ID lightly, as you are doing, and I was
Kad for many months
This from the ghost girl to her earth
Sster.
@Think! What if you should never
rome together, really, truly. in heart
Nsd soul again!"
10 whispered both ghosts earnestly
The earth lovers turned suddenly
aaRd gazed upon each other.
"Dear heart, what is the matter with
rs both this EVENING"" they cried aloud.
Next moment both had taken a step
8sward each other. Another instant
Bad their hands were clasped. the ghost
Savers gently lifting and pushing the
salf reluctant fingers into place. When !
ase' girls head went down on the |
mans shoulder and the mans arm
Rent tenderly around the girls waist |
sae ghost lovers looked at each other {
md smiled happily. for loves ways are i
sye the same In all times and places !
kiss her. kiss herr murmured the |
saan ghost to the masculine earth lover !
Say something kind and mving."
&hispered the girl ghost to the other /
4aaiden
Then when their soft commands had
aeen obeyed. all unknowingly. and all
WAS well between the earth lovers they |
pined hands once more and f1oated !
yT sweetly. their shadowy hearts beat.
Ing close together.