Show I II f i iI I I T racer of y u 1 The Chronicles Chronicles' of Dr Phileas Immanuel Soul Specialist I I By Bu BV VICTOR ICTOR ROUS ROUSSEAU SEA U Uy I h ww 1 I y y THE HE PR PROFESSOR OF ESS OR I S PEACH A C TREES REES I i t i t V T HOI dAnnI GARRETSON was as ft I P L man of about fifty Ills His face 3 was 1 was i intellectual tu l and n stamped ped with a certain austere power yet ct It also impressed me mc as ns that 0 of an imaginative man n a dreamer who has missed making his mark In n life b because e he held his judgment Jn abeyance while pon pondering the emotional values And this diagnosis was entirely correct For thirty years years b la lie had had held the chair of classical lan Ian j guage at l Maryland aryland university and was now retired upon a comfortable pension He was visiting a New York friend on the eve of or Sending his ward Margaret Lassalle off ocr to Europe Miss Lassalle was twenty twenty twenty-a a quiet thoughtful girl strikingly like like- her J guardian In inn temperament If he 1 had ad been younger and she older theirs would have been I thought an ideal I union The professor sor had adopted ed her her heron heron on the tho death of her mother when she was was a baby and the aff affection between be between between be be- tween them was was a very close one I met them at D Doctor Immanuel's ap apartments in New York Miss 1 Lassalle LasSalle Las Las- salle was to sail san for England two days later and they hey had come to pay a ar r visit to the Greek physician who was J an In intimate friend by correspondence that that Is to say ay Phileas Im Immanuel anuel sand Ind Arthur Garretson though this was was only their second meeting g ha had I troth floth been prominent members of the Archaeological society at Athens I which Is IS' as as m most st people know largely large large- American enterprise ly ry an The strange couple did not stay star long after utter my arrival When they had ad gone Boone and we three were left alone alone alone- I and Paul Tarrant the J J rich man whose whose moo monograph raph upon upon As As- w t j l' l syrian coins will wm I fan fancy y last longer 1 than his banking house the house the doctor spoke poke of them Gar Garretson ts n Is one a of or my oldest friends he be said We have corresponded corresponded corresponded corre corre- for years ears although we never met until last week Did you notice the curious attachment between him J and his ward I We had both noticed it well-to-do well bachelor bachelor bachelor bach bach- You would think a a. elor like Jike that would try to marry her her suggested Tarrant On the contrary answered the doctor Garretson is sending her to Europe precisely to avoid that eventuality eventuality even even- You know he has made made a sort tOr of father co confessor fessor of me during o our r long epistolary acquaintance I suppose suppose sup sup- r pose he thought t that at we should never never J meet and that he could better bette unburden unburden unburden den himself to a stranger He Heis is quite desperately In love with her and I t tancy fancy she cares caresa a good deal for him liim But he realizes the difference In their ages and ages and there Is a young yung man in in England to to whom whom he fancies Miss Margaret Is not indifferent So he is isi r i going to send her there for a couple of years ostensibly to to study music but really I think thInk- in In the hope of her happy marriage And the poor fellow fellow fel fel- low is broken f- f He paused and suddenly r I knew knewt 1 t 1 that there was more more more-a a great deal deal i more more to to the story i And yet he added If both only knew know that that each is for destined for the theother theother i other that unless they recognize each hi other they will suffer through many 1 lives ves to come come come- J i Tarrant always alway came came cam to 4 t the te e point bluntly I see he began that this l is another reincarnation story When 11 did they love last In Greece Assyria Assyria As As- i syria Rome nome Siberia or or in uttermost most r. t Thirty five years ago answered J H j. j the do doctor tor r Fifteen years before the girl was I rl born cried Tarrant J t Ii Exactly This story does not deal ig with their incarnation either in f- f Greece or Rome although I do not doubt that they were were lovers then I Ii i know his history from m friends and andt t t l have pieced It together Shall I tell s. s you Jou gentlemen J Why didn't you tell him asked 1 f 1 the millionaire 1 Because ans answered ered Immanuel th these ese things cannot be forced they are not Intellectual processes processes' b but matI matters mat mat- I f tern of spiritual recognition You dont don't care to hear he r though he added added add add- ed a little huffily x Yes Indeed cried Tarrant a apolo olo- olo y t Pray go on doctor octor But ButI I may ask questions questions' j A hundred answered Imm Immanuel nuel smiling Did you ever hear of P Pelorus Pe lo lorus us Jack he sal said abruptly You mean Jack Pelorus 7 h No o Paul and and n now lw I am dealing with a m matter of record for you you will find a reference to him In the laws of the Austrian commonwealth Pelorus Jack ack Is a adolphin and the only dolphin dolphin dol dol- phin who Is strictly protected by r. 1 r statute during all nIl seasons of ot the year pear Ii u r He 10 iO must be oe a n. remarkable fish said Tarrant I I He Is snapped Immanuel He Is isi i I sup supposed by the sailors to b be the re reincarnation re re- incarnation of a French fisherman who died not long ago ngo ID in an Australian Aus Aus- coast city Tv Question Number One said Bald Tar Tar- rant Do Do you mean to say Bay that men men I ore are reborn as fl fishes hes or animals 7 J y Cy 41 f You have anticipated my argument argument argument I ment Paul Paul the doctor answered Under almost all U circumstances circumstances no Yet though almost universally when once we wo become becom human the E smaller doors are shut behind us sometimes we do become entangled as the Indian Indian Indian In In- dian scriptures phrase se it That is t tsay to say if the desire for reincarnation Isso is isso isso so intense that It transcends the mechanical me me- possibilities the soul may return to birth using the lImit limited 4 medium at its possession e either ther as asa a beast or as a plant You will wm find it distinctly st stated ted In the books that the departed soul descends first into plants Plants shouted Tarrant You mean that I shall come back as a age ge geranium No JOy my dear fellow answered ed Immanuel Immanuel Immanuel Im Im- manuel smiling I 1 mean that the body making potent potentialities may first be concentrated and so to speak in some plant medium medIum for for a while Have you never heard of the Dryads the Greek spirits of at the trees It strikes me 1 I suggested suggest d that we are are getting ott oft off the track trick Suppose we return first to Pe Pelorus Jack and then to the professor proCessor Pelorus J Jack Jack es ck yes Well he was simply a dolphin who vho formed the agreeable habit of meeting all IncomIng incoming incoming I ing ocean steamships and p piloting Ung I them into the harbor of f Melbourne Melbourne- was it Sydney Sdney Anyway he became so famous famous' and popular that the commonwealth com com- commonwealth government made it a crime to kill kUl l him im And until within the thelast thelast thelast last year o or so he was a constant feature feature feature fea fea- ture of interest to the thee passengers But I instanced him as an example of ofa ofa ofa a soul soul becoming entangled in animal form Now I II F will wm hark back to Professor Professor Professor Pro Pro- fessor Garretson Thirty five years ago Andrew Garretson Garretson Gar Gar- Garretson retson then a young yung man of twenty came to this country country- from Scotland and settled in l Prince George county l Maryland aryland He was a well well-to-do youth his ais his father having g recently died and left him the only child a modest annual annual annual an an- nual competence I l' l believe his purpose purpose purpose pur pur- pose In leaving Scotland was t tc escape escape es es- es cape the memories of some boyish love affair Whatever it was it was nothing lasting although at the time he 10 probably thought that it was YOU fou ou ouse I se see even in those days he was susceptible sus sus- Just Just a shy bright affectionate affection affection- ate lad who picked d out Maryland of all l places in inthe the world as he thought by jy a whim but really because he was c controlled by reaching far-reaching purposes Mary Lassalle was the only da daughter daugh daugh- ugh ugh- ter of f fone one of the professors at the university Lassalle m meeting Garretson Garret- Garret son took a fancy to him and after some some thought the young Scotchman who was of or a studious disposition determined determined de determined de- de to enroll at the he university and endeavor to become one of oft the f faculty culty after his graduation r That was was the sort of quiet life that appealed to o l him and him and he has never had reason reason to reg regret et his decision The two young people f fell ll madly madlyn in n love with each other It was one of those romantic attachments rare raren in n that day and time though not so BO rare as now There was a sort of spiritual bond between them which made each almost a portion of f the theother theother theother other it was almost as as' though the same ame soul animated both bodies So unworldly was their love that the thought bought of marriage was looked upon by bot both only as something ultimate and remote Professor Lassalle and his w wife fe looked favorably upon the engagement it was art arranged that the I young people should be be married as as soon as Garretson completed his course and obtained the position which would obviously lie He open to one of his talent As you may know he is on one of the few classicists In in America of world wide reputation The iThe year 1880 was one remarkable for tor many things Among mong these was the spiritualist craze raze which was running running running run run- ning through America like a fire True it was long bero before e this that the F Fox Foxx x sisters s had laid the foundation of the modern Spiritualist cult at Rochester but in the late seventies there was a a remarkable recrudescence a of this superstition Impudent mediums mediums medi urns urns' Imposed upon the gullible all aU through the large and small cities of the country they country they do yet I am told but then the imposture was comparatively comparatively comparatively new It did not pass over even the quiet t little homo home of the Lassalles Lassalles Las- Las salles where Garretson boarded The two elders and the young people olten often sa sat rou round d the table and laid on hands with the usual obtaining of amusing and impossible communications We know now that these forces are nothIng nothing nothing noth noth- ing but thought Impressions either of at the sitters or of or others cast off oft and congealing round this this this' magnetic nucleus nucleus nucleus-mera mere rubbish from the tho worlds world's psychic waste baskets so BO to say But to the young people all aU this was wa's was very real They lived In a world peopled with invisible Intelligence and nd to them death was waa nothing more than a 9 simple transition from from one condition condition con con- to another hardly different If I should die before you Andrew Andrew An An- drew Said ald Mary Lassalle I shalli shall i d I c aFis j II come ome back to you I shall never go I far from you beloved not for lor a moment moment mo mo- ment meat till tin yo you rejoin me Andrew Garretson always that evening for on tho the next day Mary was waR taken ill with congestion congestion congestion tion of lof the lungs Jungs She never ered erod The chill settled deep Into her system tuberculosis the dread disease disease dis dis- ease case of or that period supervened ned In vain they closed the windows and condemned her to a single unventilated unventilated room She grew rapidly worse and died less than three months after alter the onset ons-et of the disease disease died died with her hands in Garretson's and und her ller head oh ori r his breast and her eyes turned up to his In confidence of the continuance of their love through all mortal changes For weeks after the funeral Andrew Andrew Andrew An An- drew Garretson was out of his mind When at last the loving nursing of Mrs brought him back to health he took up his life Ute with the profound conviction that Mary was ever with him watching over him Sometimes those three would d sit at atthe atthe atthe the table able and try to obtain messages from her ber But though the usual pl phenomena phenomena phe phe- e- e occurred even to their minds it beca became e o obvious that Mary was not there ther that some lying or evil intel intel- controlled the tilts At last by tacit consent these sittings were abandoned There never were such flowers as grew In the Lassales' Lassales garden that first summer after Marys Mary's death And their peach orchard which had never done well now now blossomed out into a marvel of beauty Deep wine-red wine blossoms covered the young shoots and after a while it seemed as though the We strength of the flowers was all aU concentrated in these peach trees People came from far and near to look at at them And nd the next year ear It was was' the same Andrew Garretson now one of the faculty obtained the reputation of one one who could make anything grow growl for him Its quite common I Interposed Ive often heard people say that flowers will wm not grow for them while others can charm them and have wonderful gardens gard gardens ns Doctor Immanuel shot a quick glance at me Yes he answered Flowers are quite conscious of the personality of those who tend them But perhaps the most astonishing tJ thing and one which puzzled experts experts ex ex- from va various lous botanical stations was that In his presence the plants lost los the heJi actually faculty What hat on earths earth's that doctor asked Tarrant The i faculty culty of turning toward the sun Plants in window boxes you may have noticed invariably turn their backs disdainfully upon their possessors possessors and point outward toward the he light Yet it was affirmed that Garretson's w window plants p pointed inward in- in In inward ward However whether this were the case or not I spoke of th the peach e ch orchard in which all aU the power that he le evoked seemed to be centered So the years foiled oiled on Garretson was now thirty His fiancee had she lived would have been over thir thir- ty Mrs Lassalle had died two years previously and the old professor who mourned her loss desperately and could not be comforted suddenly endeavored endeavored en en- to find happiness in life lite by marrying again Until this time Garretson Garretson Garretson Gar Gar- retson had lived with the Lassales Lassales- that is to to say till un the ladys lady's de death th and afterward with Lassalle alone The advent of the new mistress changed all aU that Naturally a woman does not want her husbands husband's friend and a prosy fellow at that as a perpetual boarder Added to which the new lI Mrs rs Lassalle conceived a distinct aversion to Garretson So he moved out of the house and about this time Lassalle being superannuated retired retired retired re re- re- re tired with his wife to a little country home some som twenty miles mUes away away- So SoI I 1 th the long friendship was broken up j Garretson boarded a f few w blocks distant dis dis- j I taut tant from the old house and lived almost al al- al most a recluse lecluse his only memories I those of or Mary Lassalle his only hopes hope's of meting meeting h her r again The Tho new owner own own- er or of the Lassalle homer home pitying the forlorn man suggested that he should |