Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1906 — Imagination. [ARTICLE]

Imagination.

He visited the tomb where his beloved was laid. Carrying a lighted candle and kneeling by her cofflu. he exclaimed passionately: “Would I could die! Would I could die!” Just then the wind closed the door and extinguished the light The bereaved lover who had Just prayed for death rushed to the door. He could not open It. He tore at it knocked, kicked, struggled, calling loudly for help. No answer, only the utter silence and darkness of the tomb. Ills wish to die was forgotten. He sank down aud wept. His tears were not for his beloved, but for himself. He felt pangs of hunger. He thought of his candle and cut it Into four parts. He ate the first quarter the first day, the second the second day, the third on the third, the last quarter the fourth day. No more, and he must die of starvation, lie made one more desperate effort to burst the door, when It suddenly opened, and the keeper of the cemetery stood before him. The sunlight blinded him. He fell from exhaustion. He had been there just four hours!—Pearson’s Weekly.