The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-08-25

Immortal Love.

lOriginail
zone Of the most singular features
OF human nature reina1ked the nnat-
omist. y. the breaking up OF love tc
tween tjfo persons when one dies"
Love does not necessarily break up
IN such an event. replied the psychol-
ogist
II don't agree with yod. Love after
the death Of the being loved is SIM
ply memory
Gases OF actual eoye between the
scxes are very rare one in thou
Wnd. They arc not mere memory att
er death they are immortal"
Can you give me such caBefv
Yes. one. II is tie only one that
has ever come to my knowledge. Lis
ten and will relate It.
Douglas Bissell knew the moment
he set eyes on Caroline Ia Cour TINT
she and ho had been appointed by
Providence TO be lovers Miss La Cour
recognized 4 fact at the same In.
stant Blssell was young northcrner
who after being graduated at college.
went TO New Orleans as teacher.
| Miss la Cour was creole Their
love came as a child is born-that Is.
a perfect thing. though It grew as The
| child grows. IL cannot be said that
II was case Of that turbulent evanes-
cent love which Comes with extreme
! youth for BissclI was thirty years old
when they met. and Miss La Cour was
| twenty-five. II was unalternble from
I its inception.
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AWAY. She died during one OF the
epidemics of yellow feverthat occurred
about the middle of the last century
and but few weeks before they were
TO have been married. such partingu
partinEs between belngs IN whom
there Is this rell immortal love-are
terrible Miss La Cour In all the phys
lcal agony of death resulting from that
awful disease did not suffer boIily
as the lover suffered In soul, and when
all was over he fell into a stnpor from
which his friends despaired OF ever
awakening him. He never was ngatn
the same man.
Blssell never married He lived
alone. II he had companion 1t was
hls wife. He told others that thero
was such companlonship, though
when he attempted 10 explain It he
failed signaly. He could say rnthcr
what II was not than what It was. For
Instance. she did not visit him IL was
not one of those cases where one
broods over grave. The mortal part
OF his love was placed IN q tomb pro-
vlded for 1t. ana BisselI went there
| htff IA
was there as beiEg any more part Of
his love than one of her gowns. Gho
was elsewhere.
But one day when he made one OF bis
periodical visits to the tomb to see
that the premises were in condition he
met with a surprise. He found man
weeping before It.
"pardon me- said Bissell, we have
common sorrow. You must be the
brother. | often heard my love speak
Of hlm-he who was living In South
America"
81 was not her brother. I am her
lover,
. 'For q few moments there was ST.
] lcncc, during which the two men re-
gardee each other with a etrange cx-
pression ON the face OF each. Then
Blssoli spoke:
"'You say you are her lover. That
IS my position
"'Pardon me, it Is minc.'
"fDo you mean to assert that shs
ever loved you.
She did. NE met I'm Paris. she
was but eighteen. offered her my
! M a.
stanccs which | do not care to reveal
parted us'
Strange replied Bisscil, half To
himself, that she never told me OF
j this affair."
There was no Affair." AZ was an
undying love-
'Cn your part not on hers
J al believed sheeloycd Inc always.
believe she loves me now.
"Bissell carried cane. II was one
Of those sword canes very much In use
at that period. Taking 1t IN both
hands, he partly drew the blade. then
thrust it back
Pardon me; l forget you are un-
armed
"'You mistake: / am armed And
the stranger drew from his own walk.
ing stick "a similar blade.
Fortunate. sai1 BisseIl, drawing
his steel. she whose mortal part lies
there Is mine. You dispute her pos.
session with me. We cannot both have
her. One must give place TO the other.
But. mind you, IL l fall she Is stAl
mine
There was q fesvor Ia the last four
words that could scarcely have been
equaled had the object been a living
being.
"'lt seems TO me- said the stranger
refectiyely that we are about to fight
for that which has no real existence
Your words show that this love
you speak OF In your case Is not real
love ABd sleghe never considered
lt worth the while 10 speak OF It 20
one, though perhaps she may have con-
sldered your preference for her as
sacnsd'
"The w0rds assered tse stranger.