a couple of years ago, his beautiful bride died at an early age, but she kept visiting him *ry night. as the first rays of sunlight shone through the *-screen windows, she would leave again. how he wished to be together with her all day long! the young man thought long and hard about what he could do to stop her from leaving *ry morning. at long last, the idea came to him of shutting out the sunlight from his room. he at once ordered a tailor to make a large, thick curtain that would pr*nt any sunlight from penetrating1 the window.
but *n so, he failed to keep his bride at home. a strong gust2 of wind blew over a candle that was burning near the curtain, igniting3 not only it but also the *-screen window and, finally, *rything in the room. there was no time for the hu*and and his bride to put on their clothes; they ran away so fast that no one could catch up with them, and they vanished without a trace. as the fire kept burning, the house was consumed by flames and reduced to dust.
neither of them were *r seen again. some people said they had gone straight to heaven, while others thought they had gone to hell. no one came up with any plausible4 idea, except that *ryone was sure both of them turned into *s and gone far away from the village they used to live. one old man declared it was the bride's * who asked her hu*and to go to heaven with her so that they would be able to live a happy life together in paradise5 for all eternity6. another felt it was the hu*and who was jealous of her happy life and therefore lit the fire on purpose. still another suggested that the bride had a * for a boyfriend, who was lovesick with missing her *ry night and found a way to be united with her. and there was yet another who thought that, perhaps, the bride was not really happy with her hu*and and lit the fire to kill him.
what*r happened in reality, it's not up to us to prove whose idea is right or wrong. *s are the product of human imagination, and no one has *r ma*d to catch one.
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