Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-11-09
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IMMORTAL LOVE.
IMMORTAL LOVE.

| che VI tne inOst singular features
OF human nature" remarked the anet.
omist, rs the breaking up of love be.
tween two persons when one dies"
Love does not necessarily break IN
In such an event." replied the psy.
chologist.
Il don't agree with you. Love after
the death of the being loved is simply
memory" .f.....
| Cases of actual love between the
sexes are very rare--one IN n thou.
sand. They are not mere memory aft.
er death: they are immortal
| Can you give me such n case?"
"Yes. one. 1t is the only one that
has ever come to my knowledge. Lis.
ten and will reate It.
Douglas Bissell knew the moment
he set eyes on Caroline La Cour that
she and he had been provided by Prov.
idence to be overs. Miss lie Cour rec.
ognized the fact ut the same instant
Bissell was young northerner who,
after being graduated at college, went
to New Orleans as a teacher. Miss La
Cour was creole. Their loves came
as child Is born-that is. a perfect
thing, though It grew as the child
grows. 1t canpot be said that Is was
case of that turbulent. evanescent
love, which comes with extreme youth
for Bissell was 30 years old when they
met, and Miss La Cour was 2j. 1t was
unalterable from It's inception
1T was the woman who was taken
away. She died during one Of the cpl
denies of yellow fever that occurred
about the middle of the last century
and but a few weeks before they were
to have been married. Such partlngs
l-partings between beings in whom
there is this real immortal love--are
terrible. Miss La Cour in all the ply.
steal agony of death resulting from
that awful disease did not suffer bod,
lily as the lover suffered insoul, and
when all was over he fell into stupor
from which Nhis friends despaired Of
ever awakening him. He never was
again the same man.
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alone. n h. had n comnan,or I, was
hi, wife II. ,o,,, o,h.r, ,h., a.,
was such companionship, though
when he attempted to explain It he
failed signally. He could say rather
what Il was not than what n was Eor
Instance sbe did mt Wait b,r, n, no.
not one of those cases where. one
broods over n grave. The norto, n,r,
OF his love was nlaced IN n tomb nro.
yided for II. and BIsselI went there
but seldom Hc ana not consider wh,,
! was there as being any more n mar,
of his love than one of her gowns
She was. elsewhere .aiH.it I,
But one div when he made one or
his periodical visits IN tba TOM, ~
see that the premises were in. condi.
tion he met with a SUNRISE He found
a man weeping before ~ '1a'r
"'Pardon me- said Bissell we have
a common sorrow. You must be the
brother. often heard my love sneak
OF him-he who was living in South
America
"T was not her brother. am her
lover
"For few moments there was 81.
lence, during which the two men re.
garded each other with q strange ex.
preston on the face Of each Then
Bissell spoke: I
"You say you are her lover. That
Is my position
"Pation me. It is mine
"Do you mean to assert that she
ever loved your"
"'She did. We met In Paris. she
was but IS. offered her my love.
and It was accepted. Circumstances
which / do not care to reveal parted
u.s..
"'Strange,' replied Bissell. half to
himself, that she never told me OF
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