Show MODERN ROMEO T RUE TO HIS LOVE lover steals into morgue to place flowers on bier of girl DIED 15 YEARS AGO since that time sweetheart has paid stealthy visits to gaze on face of ono he lost st louls louis in the corner of n cold forbidding room attached to ono one of the lie largest morgues in st louis lies iles the body of ft a beautiful girl of twenty she rests in ill a glass covered coffin it euille upon tier lips lip and with features as carefully preserved ns as they were when tiley they pulsed with life and love and hope sonic some 15 years ago the body has remained unclaimed through nil all the lie years though not forgotten for tit it regular periods a lover whose identity has a secret quietly slips into the dreary und and grew some death chamber to deposit beautiful rose upon the casket anti and gaze nt at the taco face of the woman lie he had loved in life the young oung woman fair anti winsome left tier her home in till on illinois town to become tit the wife of a prosperous merchant much older than herself the love site she craved was with bield because tier her husband was avas wrapped up lu in business affairs ono one night the young loung bride bilde stole silently away and ami though silo alio was sought roll and ultimately fount foum slie she refused to return to her husband lius band and took up her cifu la in st louis where she found work and supported herself meagerly too proud to appeal to tier husband lius band for the care he ifould have given tier her met a younger lover ono one day she accidentally met a young intini anun it struggling youth who wits was ambitious to become a lawyer but wag nos without inclines aside fron from 1119 pittance obtained in an attorneys attorney s of 1 lice lee their friendship ripened intra into I 1 loe e ve n ns s they hey were vere drown drawn together by N Z 2 41 deposits beautiful roses upon tho the casket mutual understanding of each others struggle and difficulties the girl planned for a divorce and the boung nuni pledged his scanty funds fund to nii tier her purpose oil otic fining evening the young tuan man called tit at the girls shabby apartment lie ile found tier her dead an autopsy revealed regaled that slip she had died from it jin natural tural cause a malady fly of the heart tin the newspapers told of the finding of tile body of the young woman and n few hours later the deserted husband appeared and identified the rein remains altis as 04 those of hla big young wife lie ile prom ased to return later inter to arrange for the burial nod requested that the body be carefully embalmer embalmed ed then lie he disappeared and never returned lover made strange request the body with its glass covered cotin was placed ln in n corner of the death room and some hours later a finans man broken voice come came over the telephone lione requesting that thal the body of the girl IP ile held beld until further orders that night the donth chamber lind 1 n I viI visitor vaitor tor and on the casket reposed a bouquet of robes and a note the contents of the note were not divulged hy by tile the undertakers lint lit the body of the girl remained that was mils in 15 years benr ago through some mysterious potency of the cm lining Im fluid the die girls body tills lias remained ns as it wits was in life thelva times during tit the 15 years the under takers lin anve e found fresh flowers on tho the glass above tile the girls smiling face elbell tile the if lid of tile the case tins hns been found open and alie hair revealing ln tile touch of n caressing hand a note anto la Is found it 11 word oril of inks for keeping jhb to stive kie the body cwm the tomb the undertakers declare they will never bury tho the body until the lip faithful inver either revenia ills his identity or ly falls to 4 return to iny ills his tribute of lovo to ili nil that remains earthly of tbt ali one hn 1 loved and lost |