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Show it y -- r - THE SPANISH FORK PRESS, SPANISH FORK. UTAH bead from txls body. Choose now, either strike him or die with him.' Then my friend, raising his calm eyes to mine, said: 'Strike, frlqnd, and fear nothing. For I shall die In virtue and my own salvation is sure; but If you die who knows?' And I I smote his head from his shoulders as he had bidden me. The recollection. seemed to agitate the ambassador even now, for his voice shook with emotion In the teuton of It Then Immanuel said: Perhaps somewhere on earth he Is living, now Monsieur. The other made a gesture of hopelessness. How Bhould I know him? he asked. Would fate bring us together? answered Perhaps, Immanuel Perhaps you will yet meet He may be born to you as a son, or come in some guise hard to pierce, yet possible, If you watch keenly." Noueddln Bey smiled and shook himself, as though to shake away the weakness that had overcome him. Perhaps, he answered, ln a tone that Indicated bis desire to dismiss . TheTracerofEgos 0 stand Chronicles of Dr. Phlleas Immanuel. Soul Specialist MON Got ERMANY Bu VICTOR ROUSSEAU . h Count Service fa NOUREDDIN BEYS SACRIFICE intry, Konal ej. ' counirj W1 1!V CtIIEN I reflect upoa mr Wend Wn?Ut ln the asonle3 of remorse. Fhlleaa Immanuel, citizen te ' nation i its 7 1 In the, a war fa? J Do particu'ar the lanitr rglee, elflshnen red Unit king mu is, In ihlpyg factorlet, and more that the; managN J partlcolt i than theji it to sa;fa sen who j. elr enerc arvingtht fight tor ruly and u n on the ies. The untry, no a great nilitary N ce and us mstainlnf ories d i and ouch part I of the aau thereloa 0 the k who IB le needd nalknu 1 Ing tin especU; inoeofu eclally fa latira Wli tor the v war, the i which we town and ves are esent en !ter peace wn peopit the pw the a bar d farmers large sw ir and Ut it no the natia N action ol about th n the n1 rood prta is of thr that ev one In ge han d old aim the jys of i thfi tho do rms and nd no mtter. il to the lant sba tton. W continued Immanuel, this danger thla terrible danger. If you do not take care your story may repeat Itself. It la a way things have. You know the wheel that has once made a rut la apt to traverse it again; after that It is still more likely to do so as the rut grows deeper Then it requires Intelligence and foresight to avoid the rut. So there are ruts In the bouI, Monsieur. Beware that you do not kill your dearest friend ln this life, too, for next time it will be doubly hard. That ended the strange conversation. Half an hour later the ambassador took his leave. On the next Is Friday Immanuel sailed for Calais, en route for Greece, and soon after I was called back to America. I hard- - MY, . st T belplntl e, to M ever? sir liberty irlety dj jlo mtw their & 8. America hjJ TJ he o anew pHal.Q Subah. Vf AnI2.M, PLA'N HEAD' THERE WAS NOTHING TO IN HIDDEN FOUND THE DOCUMENTS WERE Jly TORN ASUNDER NOUREDDIN BY SORROW, ANSWERED BEY. his back to the white wall; then there enme a roar, a Jugged sheet of flume, and ho sank down aldewlBe, pushing out his hands as though to save himself In the fall, and lay motionless The sergeant upon the flagstones. stepped up to him with hls revolver, but there was no need to use it Then I became conscious that benediction. Noureddln Bey was staring Into my I can explain nothing, he an- eyes with the expression of a soul swered quietly. Then Noureddln Bey racked In belt arose doggedly. My God! he said ln a dazed way, You are sealing your own doom," all this has happened before! he said. "All depends now on the e telegram. Once more. Doctor, by the was a wounded soldier Pentapouloa memory of our friendship, explain. whom the Turks bad picked up after Do you remember those days In Lona I read ln tbf letter which battle, don? Can you not think about the the Doctor had left for me. Immanuel, many more that we may have tohim in the hospital, had found visiting gether when this devastating war la him in deadly fear. Hls arms were over? You would go to your death broken and ln hls belt which he could for some sufficient purpose, perhaps, not was the plan of the Turkreach, but Innocent You have no right to ish works. Immanuel had taken it strike this Irremediable blow at me. from the spy with the intention of Speakl Explain! destroying It; but he bad been detectThere Is nothing to explain, an- ed ln possession of It and bad gone to swered the Doctor sadly. He rose and, hls death to save the Greek boy. It signing hls name to the papers which was a fitting death and somehow just before he had had him, be placed what I should have of the them ln my hands. Then he turned Doctor. For men of expected fine nature who to the General should have been caBt for heroic lives My friend, be said, there Is a often find their meed In the manner young soldier named Pentapouloa, a in which they die. I could not have wounded prisoner In your hospital wished otherwise for him. Will you grant me one last favor But, as I have said, he left a larger that he be sent back to bis own hope behind him, and I, for one, belines? lieve that the cosmic dust will In It shall be done at once, answered some cycle of time to come restore Noureddln Bey, and gave a curt order to some new world the herolo to one of the Impassive soldiers. figure that we knew, no little, gnome-llklonger Drawing out a card be scribbled on it though; cast for a larger destiny, in Arable letters and banded It to the and, I am sure, one equally ennobling. mam. The soldier took It saluted, W. a. Chapman.) by (Copyright and went out Hardly had be left the chapel before an orderly entered hurriedly with a paper, which he handed WHY OIL CALMS THE WATERS to the General Noureddln Be glanced at it and hls face went white. Fact That There Is Little Internal Friction Between Its Particles Then, without a word, he gave It to Immanuel, who read it and returned Supplies Explanation. It with a faint smile and shrug of the n shoulders. Waves In are caused enInshallah!" muttered Noureddin tirely by the action of the wind. The Bey and turned aside. He had con- adhesion between the raplly moving signed the prisoner to the mercy of particles of air which compose the God. The paper waa the Doctors wind and the surface particles of the death warrant from Constantinople. water causes the water's surface to Immanuel placed one band on my be dragged along with tho air. Small shoulder. Stay with me till the ripples are Immediately formed. These end, he askfed. I looked out The ripples soon overtake others near aun was low ln the sky. The end them. They unite, and due to the fricwould come ln a little less than an tion between the water particles, hour. We sat together in the chapel, ripple plies up on the top talking. I am not free to repeat any- of the previous ones, says Fopulur Science. thing that the Doctor told me. Just a. xn as oil Is spread upon Presently a sergeant and a file of soldiers entered, and the Doctor, see- the water, however, the size of tho ing them and understanding what waves Is reduced like magic. The their visit signified, rose with a reason for this Is Interesting. Oil, nn-llsmile and, placing himself at the serwater, has very little Internal geant's side, marched with them out friction between Its particles. Tho of the building toward a high .white ripples of oil formed by tho wind,' wall at the opposite end of the court therefore, cannot pile upon each other Noureddln Bey was waiting; u was a to any considerable height. Hence, task he would entrust to none other, water waves cannot grow In an area but be had not been able to bring of oil placed about a steamer. They himself to enter the chapel again. begin to fall down lnstcnd. By tho The Doctor, who knew by instinct time these waves reach the boat they what was required of blm, took hls will have lost their formative ripples post with hls back to the wall and and the result Is a perfectly calm surthe aoljleri, six In numbr, ranged face over the portion of tho sea themselves la line, at the sergeants through which the boat Is making Its command, a dozen paces away, with way. grounded rifles. Noureddin Bey read something hurriedly and Immanuel The Great Compliment spoke In a few short words. The GenThe Into Mrs. Bllllngtoh was not the eral nodded and raised hla band. Imfirst of her name to win fame upon the mediately a Greek priest came out of a small door nearby, In which be bad stage. There was a Mrs. Bllllngton lu cenevidently been waiting. He stood be- the latter part of the eighteenth tide Immanuel and prayed with ele- tury, whose wonderful voice gnlned her vated hands. The Doqtor sank to his one of the prettiest compliments ever knees, crossed himself, and rose paid a singer. When Sir Joshua ReyThe priest departed. I did nolds was painting Mrs. Bllllngton a again. not clasp Immanuel's hand again; he St. Cecilia hls studio was visited one It Is a very fine porwas beyond earthly friendship now, day by Ilaydd. said the musician, but trait, great Noureddln touched me on the arm and I withdrew with him. The ser- you have made one strange mistake, geant, looking at the General, spoke, "What Is that? asked Reynolds. You and the rifles were raised and aimed. have .jmlntcd her listening to the He spoke again. At that instant I angels," replied Iluydn. "You ought to aaw the Doctor standing, a little, have represented the angels listening brave, almost ridiculous figure, with to her." court-martia- " - I WAS e, writ-romanc- )D of tbt LIFE l I can order a fresh if I have new evidence, no matter what the telegram decrees! The law of war permits that You are no spy. Doctor. Explain! Tou who were mute during your trial would a spy remain mute in the face of death? Immanuel stretched out one hand over the General ln an attitude of shoe. y, than hi been And yet, there Doctor Immanuel? I asked, and explained hastily the purpose of my mission. He Is not here, answered the General gloomily. He la a prisoner." But he Is a doctor, I exclaimed. He Is accused of espionage, answered the General. A complete plan of our fortifications was found upon him yesterday. It was some mistake. You know Immanuel; you know that he la incapable of using hla honored profession to play the spy! I cried hotly. That Is what I have telegraphed to Constantinople, answered General Noureddin Bey gloomily. But why have you telegraphed there? I asked. Why did you not release him? Because," replied the General slowly, a court-martihas found him guilty and be has been sentenced to be shot at sundown, and only the Sultan can save him! Then, seeing my expression of horror, be added: My friend, I loved Immanuel better than any man I had known. But thla is war and personal feelings may not count Were I alone concerned I ex-tlo- in no Wt , the subject well-founde- schol-Turkis- tie host nation eat ends and a; rre. Thi usandi el aecesalty, ship rw array m j eat task uj and raWere 50U Monsleur?' asked Greek .physician, whose the curiously, and we all liscould tened with rapt attention. (jieory that reincarnation of My name I do not know, race account for and solve many began Bey. But I was very mure baffling phases of nervous Noureddln his for untimely birth1 now: a man f 8me would, but the medical holding high rank ln the ith, have conquered his Turkish nation in the early days of rid when I remember the man, personnl-hi- s Its history, when we were still a his unforgettable idness, shrewd common sense which nomad people ln Asia-l- ong before of his the conquest of Constantinople. Per,tfd him even In the opinion was about the tenth century. rales above the ranks of charlatans, haps it That might be, the Doctor an: saved text lie of the think ways swered. But unless your life was could not save. erg; himself he short or racked by a great sorqut so solved who tad man hat the should row you would not have been reborn oy mysteries of personality in for nearly two thousand years. a victim to his own Ignorance, in-My life was torn asunder by sord was own warning, face of his row, answered Noureddln Bey. an irony. Yet, with the larger was no woman In the case, There Into heart Instilled my e that he though. We Turks did not, and do the hearts of all bis friends, I not. Interpret life ln the exaggerated an was death his that not believe terms of sentimentality which we connixed evil, or that the cosmlo dust sider the chief weakness of you West-er- n I never again restore to some fu-- I peoples. But our friendships are, e civilization the little gnome-likI think, all the stronger by reason of and small bis body huge with tor, this. d and big heart, to bring light out My friend was an Occidental He larkness and Joy out of suffering, have been Roman or Greek a may have made mention In an earlier even, or perhaps some Cruh Frank, rant of Noureddln Bey, the sader. I have no remembrance of to Great ambassador names or nations, except that I know atn. Scholar he was, trained at my own. I met him when on an emopean universities.. a freethinker touched by bassy to the West from my sovereign, yet not so wholly savage soldier that I was, I fell but that he was to and, lem scepticism love in with the handsome boy whom found among the Doctors circle, I met at the kings court He was, I Immanuel's to eutly listening think, a priest, or destined for the upon the soul Noureddln priesthood. Opposites attract they bad been a colonel In the Otto-armsay, and so Intense was our friendship n him-Ihe had distinguished when I was summoned hack to half a dozen campaigns before that we vowed that we would meet Asia he ras given his post at London; We letters. After again. t fine type of Turkish gentleman, some years exchanged came that be the tidings In was his wife very popular was to lead a band of Christian misdon society. sionaries Into my country. They would was Noureddln Bey who told us preach the Gospel there and Invite story of what he called his martyrdom. In vain I wrote begging us to ltual awakening. He told It him not to come. He had started behe Doctor's house In London, and fore the letter reached him, and, enill reproduce bis own language in tering Asia Minor with his band, boldar as I remember It ly preached Christ there. Tou say, Doctor, that some can We Moslems, too, accept Christ, pmber their past births, he said as you know; but he went further. mmanueL Well, I can. He cursed Mahomet aa the Anti-Chrifou? exclaimed the Doctor in The people fell upon him, jrtBe. Why, Monsieur, only last stoned him and his band, and finally r you were bolding forth upon Boldiers were sent to take them prisbert Spencer and the Unknowar oners and bring them before the Sulas you were pleased to term the tan. ' lighty." The Sultan was ln a bad humor That Is true, answered Noureddln the day they arrived. One by one they Imperturbably. - And yet I have were led up to his throne, and, as ays remembered. But I always each being Interrogated, steadfastly ied upon It as a. phantasy, a trick refused to accept Mahomet his bead the brain. I have even written was struck from his body. At last but n the history of my l&Bt incarna-- i one remained, the leader. And he, ss It was revealed to me In my being asked, mildly said that Christ ims. Little by little, since my was his Lord and Mahomet anathema. dhood, this earlier personality of The Sultan made the sign. The exe- e baa been placed before me, gen-- cutloner raised his blade. Then in sleep, but sometimes In my rushed in between, and, on my knees, ting hours. But It was only after begged the Sultan, by memory of my ?ard you talk upon rebirth that I eervlce, to spare the Christian's life, is to realize that this was no The Sultan looked at me sternly. Rlnatlve play of a superactive 'You, too. are a Christian dog?' he in, but my very own history. It asked. And I weeping, denied It but is to me In a Hash: this figure pleaded for my friends life as the 1, not the hero of a partly greatest gift that my lord could beI had been dreaming; stow on me. 1 awoke. , The Sultan waved the executioner It Is well, he went on bitterly, away and turned to me. 'Then,' be t It Is not given to the majority said, smiling bitterly, 'yours shall he nen to remember, for my last life the hand that shall strike this dog's V i though they were understood my position and took me to their commander. 1 waited perhaps two minutes at his headquarters; then there strode out, fingering my card, no less a per son than Noureddln Bey himself. Our meeting was not really strange, for upon the outbreak of the war he bad been recalled by hla government to take active service ln the neld. But at the time It overwhelmed me with amazement, and I had a sudden sense of impending tragedy, as though fate bad brought us three together again to officiate at some dreadful drama. General Noureddln Bey knew me at once and was hardly less surprised. But the first glance at hla face convinced me that my fears were MY GODl HE SAID IN A DAZED WAY, "ALL THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE. ly hoped to meet the Doctor again for years to come. He, I knew, was unlikely to revisit America, and Greece was the last country In the world that I thought I was likely to visit How strange are the changes of than eight Less circumstances! months afterward the Balkan war broke out and I was asked to lend my services to the Red Cross expedition organized In America to 6erve with the Greek army. We sailed from folNew York for the Piraeus and lowed the victorious Hellenic armies northward toward Salonlca. There I In learned that Dr. Immanuel was servCross Red Greek the of charge ice at & little town not twenty miles westward of my own station. The Greeks were holding a large force of fightTurks at bay, and the constant attenunremitting the ing required medition and care of the Red Cross arm. cal visit I took the opportunity to pay a found I headquarters. to Immanuels the Red Cross station, but the Doctor out was not there. He had ridden after was told, I the day before, both skirmish, to treat the wounded, and here who lay Turkish, Greek and there upon the plain. A fe and stretcher bearers with wagons the field bad accompanied him. Upon Turkish was a small, badly organized Red Crescent band of Constantidoctors from the school at Immanuel Dr. nople. His work done, tho Turkish bad volunteered to enter in order camp with this organization men wounded some to to render aid returned. not bad He there. only be my to This was likely friend and chance of meeting my old Turkish the enter to so I resolved a war time .In also. camp even ba Is Immune against Injury; hls Profc' civilized foes respect might release him, but the laws of war are strict, and I could not attempt to do so without a mutiny breaking out I should myself be accused of treachery and suffer death. And, he ended sadly, the Doctor has made no denial and no defense. How could he offer any when the papers were found Inside hls shoe? You searched him? Yes, after hla auspicious actions bad been made the subject of comment la our camp. Brt come and see "and we will him, be continued, await the reply from Constaninople in the prison. He took me familiarly by the arm and led me through the monastery ln which he had hla headquarters, along a paved Interior court and into gloomy building at the rear, formerly the monks' chapel There, closely guarded, I found Immanuel seated at a tible, writing. Aa I approached he sprang to bla feet and grasped my hand warmly. I felt quite certain tbat you would I beard that you come, be cried. were on the way to Salonlca. I am so glad to see you, my dear fellow, on the last day of my life. Dont say that, Doctor!" I cried wildly. "You a spy! That Is preposterous. Did you not explain?'' There was He bung hla bead. nothing to explain, be answered The documents were found hidden ln my shoe. I looked keenly upon him, my beart swelling with pity and grief. He was figure just the same little gnome-llkof the old days of our friendship; the beard waa a little grayer, the eyes perhaps brightened by the anticipation of death, which, whether we fear or welcome it, means so much even to the bravest I turned away, choking Then Noureddln Bey lost all hla digran forward nity and calmness. and seized Immanuel by the hands. Tell You are no spy, be cried. me how that paper came In your e mld-ocon- g ke |