The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-01-12

years after the pair were married Tne
changed condition of her husband aft
or her death was simply that he did
not now see her, did not hear her
voice: there was no contact. The wife
WINS buried In Pere Lachaise cemetery.
not that the widower might go there
TO weep, for he did not consider her
mortal past as aught except corrup-
ton, but that he might conveniently
visit her grave occasionally TO see that
the plants she best loved and which
he had placed there be nurtured."
"Why," asked Professor Markham,
"if there was only corruption beneath
the sod were the shrubs the woman
had loved planted there? Corruption
has no Appreciation
"In you materialists," responded Pro-
lessor Taylor. "there is vacuum
where the faculty of sentiment should
exist. The widower did not place the
flowers there for the dead. but for the
living woman. To him the thread or
her life had never been broken. More
over, in our natures there Is that
which we call association, and there
was to him a pleasure in associating
the plants she loved with the place
where her mortal part lay.
zone evening about sunset Leroux
entered the cemetery of Pere Lachaise
10 visit his wife's grave and see that
all was in order there. AS he APP
preached il he was astonished to see a
man. uncovered, bending over the
mound. apparently absorbed in grief.
What could it mean? Leroux had
never heard his wife speak of broth
er or other male relative near and
dear TO her, and he wondered who
this mourner could be. Advancing, he
addressed the stranger:
"'Pardon me. May / ask why you
are thus grieving for my wifeT
'The man turned. The grief his
countenance had worn was turned to
anger.
"'Your wife! Then you are the man
who robbed me OF my love-
"'Your love! She never had but one
love. and that surely was not yours.
Who are you?
Zone who loved the woman who
lies there
"'She does not lie there interrupted
Leroux. She is i'm heaven. Had you
loved her as you say, you would not
speak of her as lying there
~ say loved her. reiterated the
other iiercely. and she loved me. We
parted in anger
"Real love is never angry. 1t may
grieve for anothers fault, but 1t can
not be angry
"I left her for a foreign land,
America. There / have been since
then: there l prospered. / returned
to do penance and claim my love.
heard that some one had won her
hand, though l know that no one but
myself could have won her heart; that
she had died and was buried here. I
came to her grave to weep for her,
and fate has brought me the man who
believed he occupied my place.
al know not what this MEANS Le-
roux rejoined. If my wife had love
affair before she married me she knew
that il was not true love and would
pain us to speak of It; therefore she
refrained.'
"'Who are you TO assume this-you.
who IL you received any love at all.
received dead love-
''The man. provoked by the uncom-
promising certainty of one he consid-
cred his rival, was by this time beside
himself with anger.
"'Had we weapons / would soon
convince you that i am the rightful
mate of the woman who lies there;
that you are an interloper. The only
recompense you can grant me for the
robbery you committed is meeting
tomorrow morning in the Bois de
Boulogne,' he said
"'Since my wife through n mistake
once may have thought enough of you
to engage herself to you / shall not
harm a hair of your head
"The stranger felt convusively for
weapon he knew he did not have about
him, then, taking out a cardcase. threw
a card ut Leroux's feet, saying. IF
you are not coward | shall hear from
you Then he strobe out of the in
closure and down the avenue toward
the cemetery gate.
'The card, bore the name of Jules
Bombardier. Leroux. calm as when he
entered the cemetery, attended to what
he had come to do, then returned to
Paris. On the way he tried to think
of some mention Of n love affair his
wife had passed through before meet
ing him, but he could not. Neverthe-
less he was content TO remain i'm igno-
rance concerning It,
This Is what l call true love, and
will show you that the stranger who
manifested all the outward appearance
OF love had not experienced it, Not
six months after Professor Leroux had
met him weeping at the grave of the
woman he believed he loved Leroux,
taking up newspaper read notice
of the marriage OF Jules Bombardier.
Franco-American, who had recently
returned on a visit from his adopted
country.
"Leroux lived the same life, so far as
women We're concerned that no had