Show 55 r i. i I RALPH WETMORE We Wo Will wm Meet Again Some Day O 0 never again you yon must never see e my mT NO face Be careful now Ralph she said some day you may fI 1 i regret your hasty basty Ii I Injunction inaction 1 ir love t you you have bave given given en me offense ottense by wounding my pride I will love you until death intervenes but this meeting over we must not meet again In this world she added softly Tears welled her eyes We may meet in heaven In heaven beaven I Is there such a place Ralph Wetmore look looked d stern and grave Every tremor of his bis voice told that this was no ordinary lovers' lovers quarrel quarrel to to him He loved Emmeline Leslie LesUe with a devotion that hardly knew any ny bounds But he was spirited for all and when she accepted an Invitation to a theater party from another this spirit asserted itself It conquered love and took complete possession of his being He showed it as he be spoke Yes there is a heaven and if It we wa meet no more in this world we will meet there But we must see one another another another an an- other here This parting forever must not be Dont Don't say it again Ralph Ralph I love you you you-I I love you you you-I I love you When you are dying Ill I'll come to you In a moment he was gone Two souls had bad been estranged estranged estranged-an an earthly affinity broken for life me The city of W W- W Knew Ralph Wetmore Wetmore Wetmore Wet- Wet more no more That very night he v ent away In a peaceful western village village village vil vil- vil- vil lage he found a haven of rest from his hearts heart's affliction Years passed as rapIdly rapidly rapidly rap rap- idly as before and as time went by his earthly possessions increased and multiplied mul mul- He became interested in polItics politics politics pol pol- and was chosen to represent the people In various offices twice as governor governor governor gov gov- of the state of his adoption Did he ever think of her ber Let a host bost of ambitious mammas answer Ralph Wetmore in the prime of manhood and andIn andin andin in his old age remained true to the simple recital of his love made to Emmeline Emmeline Emmeline Em- Em meline Leslie in his bis younger days He loved her he could marry no other Where she had bad gone or her present whereabouts did not concern him Still her ber last words occasionally rang rangIn rangin rangin in his ears We must meet again when you are dying I will come to you Would she fulfill her word He could not banish the question entirely But what of Emmeline She too disappeared from W W- W shortly after the scene described No one that knew her ber ever heard from l lr r again Her relatives made every effort to locate her but without results A nurse answering answering answering an an- her description died during the yellow fever plague was all the trace EMMELINE MY LOVE they ever got that might have led to her Identity But when the plague had bad spent its force the body was decomposed decomposed decomposed posed leaving recognition an impossible ble task The rhe years passed swiftly by ten by-ten ten twenty thirty forty fifty Leslie was long forgotten by all sav all sav savone one one and and he remembered but her ber partIng parting parting part part- ing words Ralph Wetmore was now an aged man of 85 His snowy white hair crowned a fairly well spent life for Ute for allIs all allIs allis Is not ill III that results from the bachelor state I am satisfied with my life he be would say to the companions of his closing years And leaving love aside well he might b be satisfied with his life me In all his years he he observed the Golden Rule If by any act of his life Ute any anyone one had been injured that person was himself him him- himself self And when it became known that he had taken ill III all the village went out in sympathy The news soon spread over state and nation and in all the broad land there were none but sorrowful expressions for the dying man Yes Ralph Wetmore was dying As Becomes the good Christian he made his peace with God and awaited the final summons As he be lay on his bed and stared at those gathered around his eyes became riveted on one Summoning Summoning Summoning Sum Sum- moning his fast failing strength he arose to a sitting posture He stretches forth his his feeble limbs His lips quiver with emotion emotion She has bas come come Emmeline Emmeline Emmeline Em Em- meline my love and when he sank back on his pillow he be held her In his arms aras The spark of life lite had fled fied and It t I 1 L r J. J W g t E Ethe d 4 r i ithe the spirit and Its bride entered the morning light of or eternity He imagined that he saw some ono one that he loved when he be was younger said Sister Frances as she pressed down the lids of the dead mans man's eyes But perhaps the spirit of Ralph Wetmore Wetmore Wetmore Wet- Wet more knew different To him It was the reunion of an affinity that for years had been sundered by the sins of the flesh Who knows I |