Show 0 i O g p 0 0 0 0 p A 0 BY ALBERT AlBE TeRHUNE 1 f I loo a IM t t Q Ju C 8 ELEANOR y y NOW World 1911 1915 u n Tt The TM Free Co 00 CH GINEVRA The The Ghost I Ghost Heartbreaker S r rI ai I Y 1 t r.- r. x 4 I t II f i if f fH I f 4 J 0 a r Lii J lI l' I I t tr I r I in i- i Iv n r t. t 4 f. L was dead And GINEVRA at the news of ot her ber death arose a I score of stories concerning themen the themen themen who had loved her For she had hadt men been the most beautiful woman oman in m the theold t But of ofa old Italian city of Florence sult suitors rs one man alone d a all alt her former stared at curiously by br the thc passersby passers passers- was j tl J wondered how bow he would take talce 41 by who sweethearts sweetheart's II the news of or his lost loat j death Ginevra had hadL II For In her girlhood L loved and been loved by b young Antonto An- An I. I She was ot of noble ton tonto father ta taI fa- fa family and he was not So her made her marry marr thor thaI rich ilch Francesco Meekly she I had obeyed the command She had mar mar- fled and she had been a it true though ever In her heart wIfe to him he had loved through And now news had spread the city that she was dead stricken h ly a a. sudden budden and mysterious mortal I f t I fourteenth century century century cen cen- li Illness Uness As was the tury custom the doctors made a meret mere superficial ex examination and the body t In the family was Interred at once 1 I cathedral Ii p vault under the tho Florence As a matter of or fact Ginevra was Ras as notI not sun I dead She Sha was merely In a deep trance Sin She hp awoke at midnight from this trance 4 to find j herself lying in n a niche of ot tho thoi f i j vault ault She was was was' barefoot clad only ji in a a. shroud and with her hands tied I In cross shape shapo over her chest I Ginevra managed ged to free h her r hands Tle TJien Tien she bc groped through the ghastly darkness of ot the vault until she reached r the door Thrusting the heavy portal r a little way open with all her frail i strength she craft crawl crawled l d out Into the midnight mid mid- c c i night str streets etl Th The highway through which she passed asked Is s still sUll known as the F the Dead Street of ot the I She made her way through the silent sleeping city to her husbands husband's house r I II was as snoring Awakened by her knock ho came drowsily to ther the r door 1001 At sight of ot Ginevra standing i there in the moonlight ht barefoot and I I f wrapped rapped in her he shroud he set up u p a rf howl of ot fear tear slammed the tho door In her face and ran back to bed Nor or could all her entreaties al and explanations 1 I make him come forth again This cowardice cow cow- a ardice id Ice was lc less leas strange in those da days 1 III of or superstition than it would now be bo iii I For people then believed ed that demons I took tool the forms torms of ot the beloved dead and andr r came thus disguised to lure the living 1 Li j. j i to Eternal Torment r GinevrA ra went on to her ber fathers father's s shouse house house- At sound of her voice at the tho thedoor thedoor door Messer resser awoke and shrieked an nn exorcism against all demons He lie hurled his head in the bed clothes and bade her he hebe be From house to house of or her relatives and her friends the shivering shivering- girl made her lIer wa way to be re rebuffed rebutted re- re huffed butted at each in the same manner matter Everywhere she was cursed as a devil and ordered to depart At last In de despair despair de- de pah she turned her weary ean steps to Antonio home Of ot all that slumbering city Rondi- Rondi n nelll el alone was awake In the darkness darkness darkness dark dark- ness he lay lav weeping for tor his hie dead love And when he ho heard her voice olce he sprang to his feet In a delirium of ot Joy U lt mattered nothing to him that the visitor visitor vis vis- might be a n. demon como come to drag him to hell The demon had Gl- Gl Ginevra's nevra's face tace and spoke with Ginevra's voice He loved her And she had como come back to him from the grave That was all he knew or cared And de demon demon demon de- de her with mon or angel he welcomed rapture Throwing open the door he clasped the fainting tainting woman in his arms Ho bore her to his mothers mother's rooms and there Ginevra waa was nursed d to health again Soon Ag and old learned the truth about the supposed ghost The They demanded that return Ginevra to them The Tho lover refused They Invoked the tho power of the noila notia rulers of ot Florence to compel to leave and to come comeback comeback back to her former home The sh signoria weighed the tho case cae with solemn care and handed down a decision de decision decision de- de that is still BUll preserved In the archives of ot Florence The gist of ot this decision was as follows Whereas Ginevra had been pronounced pro pro- I dead b by competent doctors and whereas the said Ginevra had been buried burled in due and regular form torm and b by all rites riles of the church therefore church therefore the tho said Ginevra vt WAS AS legally dead Her husband had no further claim upon upon upon up up- on her And the signoria formally refused to lo direct the future actions of ot a disembodied bodied spirit Ginevra ra and were married And by the tho Florentine law found round himself in the decidedly odd po position p position po- po 1 sWon of ot being a widower with a livIng living liv liv- ing wife |