Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1912-01-27

| voice: there was no contact. The wife
wns buried In Pere I.achaise cemetery
not that the widowcr might go there
10 weep. for he did not consider her
mortal past as aught except corrup
tion. but that he might conveniently
visit her grave occasionally TO see TINT
the plants she best loved and which
| be 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 yon materinlists." responded Pro
fessor Taylor. there IL vacuum
where the faculty OF sentiment should
exist. The widowcr did not place the
flowers there for the dead. but for the
living woman To him the thread Of
her life had never been broken. More
over. IN our natures there Is that
which we call association. and there
was 10 him pleasure In associating
the plants she loved with the place
where her mortal part lay.
Zone evening about sunset Leroux
entered the cemetery OF pcre Lachaise
TO visit his wlfe's grave and see that
| all was In order there. As he APP
preached il he was astonished TO see
man. uncovered. bending over the
mound. apparently absorbed In grief.
What could II mean: Leroux had
never henrd 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 your
lone who loved the woman who
lies there
".She does not lie there. interrupted
Leroux. She is in heaven. Had you
loved her ms you say. you would not
speak OF her as lying there.
80 say | loved her. reiterated the
| other fiercely. and she loved me. We
parted in anger
Real love is never angry. 1t may
grieve for another's fault. but 1t can.
not be angry.
81 left her for a foreign land
America. There | have been since
then: there prospcred. returned
to do penance and claim my love.
heard that some one had won her
| hand. though know that no one but
myself could have won her heart; that
she had died and was buried here.
came to her grave to weep for her
aud fate has brought me the man who
believed he occupied my place
"T know not what this MEANS lie
roux rejolned. IL my wife had n love
affair before she married me she knew
that II was not true love and would
pain us to speak OF It, therefore she
refrained
/ w tiO art lVu " AScuhG tohs
who IL yon received any love at all.
received dead love
| 1.-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 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 yon committed Is meeting
tomorrow morning in the Bois de
Boulogne he said.
| ".Since my wife through mistake
once may have thought enough of you
| to engage herself TO you ! shall not
/! harm hair OF your head
| THE stranger felt convulsively for a
weapon he knew he did not have about
him. then. taking out cardcase. threw
card nj ferouxs feet. saying II
| you are not n 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 i.eroux. calm as when he
entered the cemetery. attended 10 what
he hnd come 10 do then returned "a
Paris On the way he tried to think
OF some mention 81 love affair his
wife had passed through before meet
ing him. but he could not Severthe
less he was content 10 remain in igno
| rance concerning Il
"This Is what | call true love. and
will show you that the stranger who
manifested all the outward appearance
| OF love had not experienced II. MOI
six months after Professor Teroux had
met him weeping NJ the grave OF the
woman he believed he loved Leroux
taking up newspaper. read notice
| OF the marriage OF Jules Bombardier
a Franco American. who had recently
returned on visit from his adopted
country.
"T.eroux lived the same life. so far ms
women were concerned. that he had
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