Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-02
The Argus Daily Story
True Lovely T. G.. Appleby.
Copyrighted. 1911. by Associated Literary Bureau

exist. The widower 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 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
to visit his wife's grave and see that
all was in order there. AS he ap-
preached IL he was astonished to see a
man. uncovered, bending over the
mound, apparently absorbed In grief
What could 1t mean2 Leroux had
never heard his wife speak Of a 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 I ask why you
are thus grieving for my wifeY
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 lovei She never had but one
love. and that surely was not yours.
Who are your
Zone who loved the woman who
lies there
"'She does not lie there interrupted
Leroux. She is in heaven. Had you
loved her as you say. you would not
speak Of her as lying there
"T say 1 loved her. reiterated the
other flercely, and she loved me. We
parted in anger
"'Real love is never angry. It may
grieve for another's fault. but it can
not be angry
"T left her for a foreign land,
America. There 1 have been since
then: there I prospered. returned
to do penance and claim my love.
heard that some one had won her
j 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
"I know not what this MEANS Le-
roux rejoined. If my wife had love
affair before she married me she knew
that 1t was not true love and would
pain US to speak Of 1t; therefore she
RETAINED
"'Who are you to assume this-you,
who If you received any love at all,
received a dead love-
"The man, provoked by the uncom-
| tzf f,xtxr ~
cred his rival, was by this time beside
himself with anger.
Had we weapons I 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 you committed is meeting
tomorrow morning In the Bots de
Boulogne,' he said.
"'Since my wife through a mistake
once may have thought enough of you
to engage herself to you shall not
harm a hair of your head
THE stranger felt convulsively for q
weapon he knew he did not have about
him, then, taking out cardcase, threw
card at 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 a love affair his
wife had passed through before meet
ing him, but he could not. Neverthe
less he was content to remain in igno
rance concerning it.
. This is what 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 a notice
Of the marriage of Jules Bombardier.
, a Franco-American, who had recently
, returned ON a visit from his adopted
country.
''Leroux lived the same life, so far as
women were concerned, that he had
iFcu WIFI HIS Wlic. III OtHeE WOTus,
after her death ne continued to live
with her in the spirit"
| The narrator paused for a moment
thoughtfully, then concluded:
IF have not proved my case have
[ at least made it equally strong and far
, more acceptable than your theory that
, love is but a means by which nature
produces procreation."
; 81 admit that you have" replied
Markham. There is barrier that
! neither Of us can pass. / reason from
analogy based on cause and effect that
, see in material things about me-
while your reasoning is based on the
t same premises in spiritual sense. We
are both confined within our narrow
sphere. Nevertheless from the founda
ton of the world love has been recog-
{ nized as a divine attribute indeed, the
only divine attribute we possess In the
, flesh. II 1t is not eternal we may well
assume that all things die"