Show 1 I I The Tracer of EGOS 1 I II i I Chronicles of Dr Phileas Immanuel Soul Specialist Bg By VICTOR ROUSSEAU i C g gj s' s I j THE TWO CHARIOTEERS I I I Is' Is I i I Ii I iu fm the HARRIS HAnniS bile bad bud taken the lead and was racing round the course e toward the grand stand on tho the last Just lap 1111 hotl hotly followed b by Morton in inthe Inthe the O ter The immense concourse WEn went lid Ud with enthusiasm They stool pa and waved ed hats and handkerchiefs handkerchiefs hand hnud kerchiefs and yelled as Harris slowly drew away vay from his pursuer He lIe had hud crept up from ninth to first lust and nud now shot like a n projectile along the track the wheels ot of course Invisible In the thelong thelong thelong long dark bod body of the car COIl c conveying the sense of a 11 continuous streak The two figures in lu the looked like tiny automatons perched inside the body of the Uie monster You haven't ha anything like this In Greece or I yelled exultantly to Dr v Phileas hileas Immanuel who at m my side was watching the race with restrained but obvious interest Not yet yet et he be answered But But why should auld we After Arter all Greece invented thIs and practiced It so BO long that our people have grown weary of it When they are aro ready they will wUl revive the they y sport once more Greece Invented automobile racing racing rac rac- ing I exclaimed Tho The little doctors doctor's rash statement almost withdrew my i Attention from the speeding cars I Byzantium he corrected Of course we modern Greeks were not there then though you ou probably were And many in this concourse and certainly certainly Harris and Morton Automobile racing I exclaimed I looking at Doctor Immanuel to discover er whether the excitement had bad temporarily temporarily tem tem- unhinged his brain Chariot Charlot racing my dear fellow tellow he answered In the sixth century of or orthe the Christian era era era- Ah h Ah h-h-h-h h groaned the crowd Harris had diverged from the I course and his automobile crashing i Into the tho fence passed through In a cloud of splinters tottered upon the tho edge of an embankment leaped it hung bung for an instant upon the outer edge righted Itself and careered madly mad ly 17 across a a. strip of or marshy ground un un- until ill til an en Immense boulder tumbled it on onIta its Ita side where it lay like some unearthed unearthed un paleolithic monster Harris shot hot from the car and landed upon his a dozen paces away A mo meat ment later Morton passed the grand stand Mend and having won the race began I to slow down For a moment the vast assemblage remained motionless the next instant it tt was dissolved in a stream of shouting shouting shout shout- ing tag hurrying units pouring toward the scene of or the accident By chance Immanuel a and d I were among those nearest and a minute after aCter Harris had fallen the do doctor tor was at his side I while volunteers kept back the curious multitude Now my good fellow tellow give me a pocket knife said anid the doctor to to toa a bystander and presently he had cut the bloody shirt from tram the shoulder of ot the unconscious ma man His deft dett fingers went searching in the bruised flesh A dislocated a fractured clavicle cle two ribs smashed he said Its lucky he land landed d like that Now somebody telephone for an ambulance please Keep back gentlemen No madam this shirt must not be cut Up for tor souvenirs If It you OU will give him air he will recover consciousness shortly Harris was already manifesting signs Igns of or returning consciousness He stretched his limbs and od his eyelids Quivered Then he began muttering I 1 could not catch what he said The doctor seemed to hear though for tor he listened with the utmost atten atten- lion tion and when Harris had ceased speaking and lay still sUll again he be Jotted Jolted down some somo memoranda in the little book he always carried The timely arrival of the ambulance and the application ap ap- ot or restoratives aroused the injured man once more This time he hes Beamed se s ned fully conscious of his sur sur- r Will I be able to drive at Savannah next month he ho asked Not unless your bones have glue In item be m answered the doctor gilt rye got to drive cried Harris Harris Har Har- ris rU hysterically Hero Here Ive I've thrown away the cup and who's it gone to Morton in that rotten old Carrier Carner that couldn't catch a snail on ona a five per cent grade I tell teU you you you- He stopped short overcome with weakness and glared at the doctor as though he be had suffered Buffered a mortal injury at his hands bands But he ho surrendered himself him himself self seU to the ministrations of the ambulance ambulance lance men and then somehow by dint of ot hard pushing and dodging of or newspaper men who wanted to cross cross- question us we found ourselves on the Toad road that led to the station We Wo had an nn engagement to dine with Paul Tarrant the millionaire at his magnificent city home that night Later when Mrs Tarrant had gone to bed we sat Bat smoking our hosts host's imported Imported Im ported perfectos in front of his hla li library library li- li fire Did you Ou see what the evening papers papers pa pa- In tho thorace thorace thorace pers pel'S said Bald about Harris interest race asked Tarrant as we wo reviewed tho the circumstances of at tho the accident Several thousand dollars wasn't it HI iU I 1 answered No more than that said our host hosl It seems Beems that there is an intense rivalry ri rivalry rl valry between himself and Morton over a girl some girl some worthless woman I 1 understand Its It's In the the American People I guess its it's a case of at professional professional prates rivalry which can drive his car harder and faster and the man who wins the tho Savannah race will naturally be the hero in her eyes No wonder the poor fellow wants ants to get out of the hospital in time for tor that event Just like Byzantine times said Doctor Immanuel and then we knew ho was riding his hobby again Doctor Immanuel was telling me methis methis methis this afternoon that the Greeks invented Invented In in- vented automobile racing I said ma ma- You referred of at course doctor to the fact tact th that t the Byzantines were crazy over chariot charlot racing and meant I take It that Harris and Morton Morton Mor Mor- ton were once competitors In the stadium stad ium hum for the tho laurel wreath and purse Certainly answered the little doctor doc doc- doctor tor nursing his knee Nations are reincarnated as well as individuals Just as ancient Greece with her unparalleled unparalleled un un- un I paralleled painters sculptors and architects was reborn as the Italy of oC the middle ages with 1 Rafael and Da Vinci and Rome lives again in England so so America is Romes Rome's mightiest Byzantium How can you OU doubt these parallels What were the Roman qualities Justice aggrandizement a a. very poor appreciation of oC the arts but bet an unequaled unequaled un un- equaled sense of or law which gave us the foundations of at every western system system tem of or jurisprudence until the common law of at England spread through tho the speaking English-speaking world Has any country but England Inherited the theRoman Roman Roman Ro Ro- man Roman instinct for tor self government And la is the Englishman a member atan of at an artistic nation Well said I but how about America being Byzantium I am coming corning to that the doctor answered letting his knee fall tall I Ishall Ishall Ishall shall pass by the common social instincts in in- of oC the two nations their amazIngly amazingly similar love of oC luxury and support support sup sup- port my case by a single parallel What is It that unites every American to his fellows on certain days of at the year in a communion of passionate I ecstacy The presidential election said Tarrant laughingly w 1 The Fourth of oC Jul July said I. I Pshaw gentlemen guess again Baseball shouted the millionaire Yes or In its wider application sport You know of oC course that the theRoman theRoman theRoman Roman passion for tor games reached its In Byzantium At the chariot chari chari- ot races the Greens and the Blues fo fought foight and mauled on one ond another as sav saw savagely I as Orangemen and Hibernian i today or the backers of at opposing baseball teams would wish to Well Vell I gentlemen to cut this disquisition short I have discovered who Harris and Morton are The doctor rose and walked toward our hosts host's well filled library shelves which were stocked with books of ot ancient ancient ancient an an- history and antiquities his antiquities his hobby He lIo took down a stout volume bound In calfskin and turned the pages until he be found what he sought He seemed about to read it but suddenly suddenly sud denly replaced the volume on the shelf Show us Immanuel pleaded Tarrant Tar Tar- I rant No gentlemen not until my faith has been vindicated the doctor an answered But 1 I will tell you Harris in his last birth is named and was the son of or a slave Morton was named and was also a slave but in the palace of Jus Jus- tinian He lie was a skilful charioteer and drove Empress Theodoras Theodora's chariots chari chari- ets when she entered them in the tho races The Tho men were rivals for the love of a beautiful slave slavo of the empress empress em em- press named Iris his And Iris his IB isMae is- is Mae Connelly the woman in this case Hers liars was the tho name that Harris whispered as he recovered consciousness conscious conscious' floss ness Do you claim doctor said Tarrant Tarrant Tarrant Tar Tar- rant that we must return to earth to go through tho the weary round of our past lives with all their sins and failures fail tan I ures and ures-and and even successes asked our i host seriously I confess that that I prospect is not an alluring one ono I I. I for I example have havo not the slightest wish ish to be a millionaire a a. thousand or fifteen fit tU- teen hundred years from now I 1 would like something different Only when the tho past life lite has been cut short without the tho fulfilment of or Its Ita destiny answered the doctor gravely grave- grave ly iy You told me once once I think said Tarrant that It was sometimes possible p possible ble to discover these lost secrets by hypnotism T TYes Yes rarely All AU dreams of an intense intense in in- tense tenso nature all tho the Imaginings of delirium delirium de de- are usually a a. reflection ot of former former for for- former mer experiences How else elso should these thoughts come to one But you did not hypnotize narris Barris Ho He was already hypnotized How so 1 By the tho monotony of at the race by bythe bythe bythe the eternal spectacle of ot the course courso with Us its everlasting single hued track and the brown bro fence and the tors All automobile drivers are hyp hyp- It is when whon something wakes them that they lose control control control-as as Harris did Something some powerful emotion emotion emotion emo emo- tion some unexpected shock awakened awakened awakened awak awak- ened him him and and he went through the fence rence It was while he was coming back to this world of sense that he gave me IDe the clue In Greek I asked ed in amazement No He lie saw in that moment a perfect picture of a king and queen enthroned watching a race of street watering carts with four Cour donkeys harnessed har abreast The mirror of course distorts its images Well gentlemen suppose we go to to the hospital tomorrow tomorrow tomor tomor- row and see the patient and try to locate locate locate lo lo- cate Mae Connelly By all means menns I exclaimed How flow about yourself Mr Tarrant Well I confess Id I'd like hike to go answered answered an an- our host but being a man of much less leisure than yourselves ourselves Im I'm afraid my absence from rom m my ray office would tie things up badly In Wall Wallstreet street streel However pray let me know the result of your our researches Comein Come Comein in any or every night in tho the week I Ishall Ishall Ishall shall be at h home borne me alone for I am re- re cataloguing my Assyrian antiquities Just now now On thi next morning Immanuel andI and andI I paid a visit to the tho Free Baptist hos has pital My distinguished colleagues colleague's card procured for us immediate ad ad- We found the Injured driver er comfortably established In a bed bedIn bedIn bedin In a private room and were lucky enough to discover Miss Connelly seated seat seated ed at his side reading to him the account ac no- count of at the accident in the American Ameri can People Harris recognized Doctor Doctor Doc Doc- tor Immanuel at once and held out his free hand Glad to see you OU Doc he ho said Glad to know your our friend This is ismy ismy ismy my friend Miss Connelly The girl a coarse but handsome handsom blonde nodded to us amiably enough She Sho was an attractive looking girl ather of at her type with a full fuU but well well t figure Jure small hands a large largo and not wholly home-grown home coiffure and a pleasing smile which disclosed death to tho vanquished gladiator She is a tigress in a human frame with all its savage cruelty cruelly I am per sure that she would go delirious with ecstacy If it Harris and Morton went crashing to their death at nt Sa Sa- Sa vannah Such women seem to possess an irresistible attraction for men of that type he added And nd yet they have many good qualities They mako faithful and admirable wives and mothers When they havo have chosen their mates they cling cUng to them through thick and thin I have no doubt that nature in creating such a bond between between be be- tween her and Mae Connellys Connellys Con Can nellys has her wise purposes But Harris must not race at Savannah It looks as though he meant to I replied If he races It means his death responded responded re re- re tho the doctor and would say no more But that evening at Tarrants Tarrant's ho he consented to make clear his mean mean- ing I think It was Tarrants Tarrant's awakened awak awak- ened coed Interest which convinced him that we wo were sincere In our Crossing to the tho book shelves again the doctor took down the bulky little volume in calfskin and read to tous tous tous us the passage which he had picked out the evening before It was from a Byzantium history In the year A A. D. D he read the he hero of the Blue faction at Byzantium Byzantium was a n certain the tho son of ofa ofa ofa a slave A man of less than the average Frank Frnnk stature Prank Barris Bar Har Harris ris interposed the tho doctor doctor his his power power pow pow- er and control over his animals as aswell aswell well wen as ns his keen eyesight made him by common repute the most skilful charioteer of at his age The champion of the Green party was one Morton Morton a a slave in the emperors emperor's palace and only second In skill to HIp Hip- plas pias Both these men were rivals rivals' for forthe forthe forthe the love of 1 Iris May Connelly Connelly a a beautiful slave of the Empress Theodora Theodora Theo Theo- dora who pledged herself hersel to the one who should win the horse four chariot charlot race that year The entire population of the capital assembled to witness the tho spectacle and party feeling ran high During almost the entire period of the f fI fI fr I I I I r Ili I I II It I r T. T I I t J i 1 I HER THUMB WAS POINTED UPWARD two rows of perfect teeth She seemed l 1 to me just the type that would prove irresistible to tho the an anemic Ie nervous man in the bed Miss Connellys Connelly's a 1 particular friend of C mine Doc said the driver addressing addressing ad ad- dressing my companion Cut it out Frank said the girl pet pet- You aint the tho only pebble Harris scowled It was evident that ho was well und under r her thumb also that she took pleasure in tormenting him aim I suspected that they had been quarreling recently Say Doc said Harris confidentially confidential ly |