Authors -- Fiction; Ghosts -- Fiction; Love stories; World War, 1914-1918 -- Veterans -- Fiction
"Garrison Monroe!" she ejaculated. "Oh, dear dear Uncle Garry, he's
alive after all!" She read the letter aloud, the tears welling in her
eyes.
"How wonderful!" she commented when she finished. "You see, he's
apparently specialized in tomb-sculpture."
She pulled the tissue paper from the picture. Their heads met, examining
it.
"Oh, how lovely!" Susannah exclaimed in a hushed voice. And "It's
beautiful!" Lindsay agreed in a low tone.
It was the photograph of a bit of sculptured marble; a woman swathed in
rippling draperies lying, at ease, on her side. One hand, palm upward,
fingers a little curled, lay by her cheek; the other fell across her
breast. A veil partially obscured the delicate profile. But from every
veiled feature, from every line of the figure, from every fold in the
drapery, exuded rest.
"It's perfect!" Susannah said, still in a low tone. "Perfect. Many a
time she's fallen asleep just like than when we've all been talking and
laughing. When she slept, her hand always lay close to her face as it is
here. She always wore long floating scarves. You see he had to do her
face from photographs ... and memory.... He's used that scarf device to
conceal.... How beautiful! How beautiful!"
There came silence.
"Mrs. Spash says he was in love with her," Susannah went on. "Of course
I was too young. I didn't realize it. But it's all here, I think. Did
you notice that part of the letter where he says that for the last year
or two his mind has been full of her? And of all his life here? That's
very pathetic, isn't it? Now there will be a fitting monument over
her.... He says it will be here in a few months. We must send him
pictures when it's put on her grave. How happy it makes me! He says he's
nearly eighty.... How beautiful.... You're not listening to me," she
accused her husband with sudden indignation. But her indignation
tempered itself by a flurry of little kisses when, following the
direction of his piercing gaze, she saw it ended on the miniature which
hung beside the secretary. "Looking at Glorious Lutie!" she mocked
tenderly. "How that miniature fascinates you! Sometimes," she added,
obviously inventing whimsical cause for grievance, "sometimes I think
you're as much in love with her as you are with me."
"If I am," Lindsay agreed, "it's because there's so much of you in her."
THE END
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