Show i The e Tracer T r t of r Chronicles of Dr Phileas Immanuel Soul Specialist By VICTOR ROUSSEAU r I r r I MARY ROTH WAYS WAY'S A YS Y'S MEM MEMORY RY l t tm B m N Ii Dr Phil ens Immanuel of tho I IF household of ot his majesty the king of or tM tb Hellenes had hud been less out- out sr si six 31 about his convictions con he would fj je e done tar far less good Imagine a doctor of ot I European reputation a delegate to the Congre Congress Con- Con gress gre cs of ot Penologists at Boston o ton calmly advocating the treatment of ot nervous diseases upon the basic theory theory theory the the- ory of ot reincarnation Imagine grave graye and learned medicos listening in cold silence which was warmed into kindl- kindl kindliness ness by the enthusiasm l and sincerity of or the little earnest man imagine tho doctor not only oaly retaining his reputation don tion but actually winning a sympathetic sympathetic hearing from men like Uke Maine Harvey Lucien Bronkhorst and Field Field- could not imagine Parr ing-Parr but Parr but you anything to seemingly so Improbable un un- unless lp less rw yon you knew know Doctor Immanuel I can see him now him now the tho great neurologist penologist and sociologist seated before before be- be fore fore the fire in Paul Tarrants Tarrant's library nursing nursing ono one knee his black beard thrust aggressively forward his white whiLe band hand waving In air theair as he de declaimed in an Imps impassioned plea This night he was having the tho fight Hof I of his bin life Ute I his assistant was only passively p on his side while Paul T Tarrant Tarrant Tar Tar- r. r rant the millionaire our host flatly denied his bis claim and Capt Mervyn OFarrell of the Ninth Virginia regiment regi I ment declared that the doctor was waa 1 talking absolute nonsense if you'll excuse me doctor The captain was wasi wass i s member of the Episcopalian church and held beld the creed In its orthodox rigidity He ne bad no use for Imported Orl myths aa as be he expressed him him- olt If It he ho had bad known that the doctrine docI doc- doc I pine trine e of reincarnation waa was held bell uni in the ancient world not ex- ex some BOme of ot the earl early missionaries of ot Christianity he be would still sun have hare protested pro- pro prole tested ted with equal vehemence In fact he le grew crew BO so heated halted that he be cut short I Ota visit by a full hour bour and left us courteously enough but distinctly up- up f et by what he be would have bave privately tailed called the damned nonsense of ot that little Greek doctor When the captain was gone we drew sour jOur Our chairs closer loser around the fire and warmed our fingers at its blaze Hes a fine fellow OFarrell said eaid Mr Tarrant for apologetically for the captain had gone In his opposition almost al al- J most most to the limits of what courtesy allowed al al- lowed You Vou must forgive his heat beat ImmanueL The fact tact le 16 he is laboring sunder under a severe nervous strain just now Would you ou like Uke to hear bear th the st story j i i tie were glad to have havo the subject changed so 80 adroitly I I Its very vory sad pursued tho the million million- i OFarrell is as you ou ma may ba have e j I seen sten n physically the the- image of some 01 old 1 I roman oman bero hero In tn Ca fact t I have bac a b it t 1 j my my gallery which I 1 want ant you OU to look at 1 afterward If it t I believed in lion tion doctor dodor 1 t would almost d declare oFarrell OFarrell to be Mn Maximius come rome back backo t o firth firth- Mitt Aud n mentally and morally morally ha the Is le no whit inferior to his physical up Everybody loves him a him a bin 11 hearted carted hotheaded hot impetuous kind Jy Irishman His Hie character Is Is in fac mac singularly gracious and winning And when hen he fell in love 10 with Mar Mary Rot Rol i way six months ago everybody envie ni 1 I her and congratulated him as b iu Ithe the only man living who was W worth orth of or her I Mary Vary is tho the only daugh daughter ter of ot the late Senator Till Thc have a able big house an house an old fashioned colonial mansion out mansIon out on Brooklyn n I heights Its It's been In the tamil family foo fo fo I generations and in ID former days th owned a large section of theand the trw theland land and fronting on ou the East river Mary Mar never novel went much into society Silvas She Si was vas a loving homo girl and very very- Or ru rl When she met OFarrell f it t seemed to be a case of love at first firs t ight cht with each tach of or them ButI have e havet It t from the family ph pity sidan that Mary Is of or a marked markedly I neurasthenic neu temperament temperament- He alone alono wua wu s t dubious when whon tho the engagement was an au- pounced lIe He told me in confidence I I Imay may perhaps rop repeat at it to you ou gentlemen gentle gentle- n men cn you yon are arc both doctors doctors that that t she Hurt suffers Buffers from what bat he calls clos calls clos- clos Claustrophobia I J corrected an and I Doctor Immanuel suddenly stopped d m lf his knee and stared hard a at t Mr Tarrant Odd Exceedingly odd he murmured mur inured I 1 beg your our pardon Mr AIr Tar Tar- rant Tho The symptom of this disease as I understand resumed the millionaire e Is is an nn ineradicable f fear ir of closed close d spaces paces Yes Yes said Do Doctor tor Immanuel It i is io U quite com common mOD among neurasthenIc neurasthenics s and among amone ordinarily healthy people e too lor for the matter of that that that-es aa is I it Its S opposite a or f fear r of or open ape n spaces such as streets and squares square s The Tho sufferer from claustrophobia fees rears fears r s to in a closed room The walls wall s fir Ti about to rush in and crush hi him m f t. d He lie canD cannot t pass down dowl a narrow nar r- r row rw passages without terror Hat But s so o st I ui al IK as the fear Is 18 kept within reason reason- t n r bounds it is not nol of gr great cons consIgnee e. e I Ignee Mary bry puno pursued d Tarrant Taman t 1 brooded over this U of ot her hers hern s t f She was afraid that she would make her husbands husband's life lite unhappy perhaps ruin him She could not be reasoned out of ot her morbid terror terror and and the result result re re- sult BUtt is that she Intends to enter a ste- ste the members of which are pledged to celibacy acy so 80 long as they remain remain remain re re- main in it And we wo nil all realize that when Mary enters the doors of ot this institution in she will leave the tho world orld behind behind behind be be- hind forever Ho lIo bent forward She claims to have had bad a supernatural revelation he said eald She heard voices telling her to put the world aside and 1 give up her betrothed Of Ot course it was the hallucination of ot a But she has done so She he has baa given OFarrell his conge conge and and hes he's bearing it like a man Only it has upset upI upset up up- I set his customary equanimity Poor fellow I dont don't wonder at I that said Doctor Immanuel But I perhaps she ehe may change her mind Impossible ImmanueL You dont don't know Mary said sald Paul T Tar Tar- r- r rant And she never sees him now 7 I No They haven't seen each other for three weeks And In a 0 few tew days daysI the captain accompanies his regiment I to Guantanamo Cuba Im I'm afraid Its It's all of off doctor Well show me your statue of ot said the Greek doctor ab ab- We rose and Tarrant led us out of his library and through his Assyrian room into a gallery hung with pictures by the famous Italian and Dutch paint paint- ers Here and there too I could see a Greuze or a Corot I a Gains borough I could have lingered here for tor hours Ignoring the millionaires millionaire's valueless replicas of ot ancient statuary which which stood ranged along the middle of ot the floor but I had to follow Tarrant Tarrant Tar- Tar rant and he led ue past the Venus of ot MIlo MHo whose upturned face dispassion dispassion- dispassionately dispassionately regarded a plaster past pasta a whole line of ot Roman emperors from Augustus Caesar to Marcus Aurelius until we stopped before a size life figure figure figure fig fig- ure of ot Maximius Then both Doctor Immanuel and I i were struck by the astonishing as- as astonishing astonishing as as- resemblance of the plaster face tace to the flesh and blood face tace of ot OFarrell It If the captain could have bave been attired In armor with a crested helmet and a sword he might have posed as the original Its very like him Isn't it Iti said Tarrant It might be he answered the doctor doc doc- tor Although that does not necessarily necessarily necessarily count for much Y You u mean that we doat dont take on the similitude of or our past physical framework framework framework frame frame- work 7 asked the millionaire God pity the he hunchbacks if It that were so Immanuel said No The thoughts the wishes the will the soul of ot the living man fashion the body of or orble his hie next life One may mar be entirely dif dlf ferent Still sun there are certain natures fio eo so well developed along their natural lines that especially when their bodies bodied perfectly express their souls they donot do donot donot not change chanco For instance those fat tat Dutch women and phlegmatic burgomasters burgomasters burgomasters burgo burgo- masters in your our must have looked very similar when they were the stolid boors of ot the the days of ot and we ue all know the unchanging physical type of ot the young warrior the tho Alexander who may may have bave met his Nemesis as Charles XII of ot Sweden But to come back to my subject OFarrell may have been Max- Max but was not necessarily so That Thatis is what we have ha to find out I hardly think OFarrell will give i you much of or an opportunity doctor said eald Paul Tarrant But Dut who was this Maximius 7 Maximius said Doctor Immanuel was a Roman knight and aDd lived in the time of at Tiberius He lie fought in several border campaigns and covered himself with wounds and honors When ho he came camo back to Rome he committed a grave Bravo indiscretion indiscretion indiscretion-he be foil fol In love Oh come doctor not so very grave said Tarrant jestingly Grave enough for or you poor fellow Immanuel answered nodding toward the statue He fell feU In love with a aI vestal virgin named Horatia The Tho vestals ves yes tale as of course you OU know kno were the I holy maidens of ot Rome Horne They were ac accorded c- c corded the greatest honors but woe woo to any of ot them who looked kindly on an any man before she eho had bad finished her thirty years' years period of service Although the ancient faith had by the time of or Tiberius Ti Ti- benus degenerated Into a mere ritual the force of ot tradition still held with all Its old severity In ID n the case of at the vestals who guarded tho the city's sacred rel relics cs in their magnificent temple Only a very few cases of or unfaithfulness unfaithful ness Hess on an their part havo have come como down to us But Dut saw and aDd loved lie Ho- Horatio ratio raUn and Horatia loved od Maximius They planned to flee fieo together The They y were caught and brought before the e What happened to him history history his his- tory does docs not record although I suspect suspect sus sus- su s poet that his lire life was forfeited 11 Ho- Ho a Toile perished in the prescribed man nor nero An ancient vault was was beneath tho the Palatine she sha was wan led In into it with a candle and a loaf of at bread the vault was vas sealed again Another r vestal was chosen They buried her alive exclaimed exclaim od I Tarrant In horror Thank heaven w we ode e Continued on Page Six The rhe Tracer t of Egos Ne e eNN Continued From Page Three 1 r dont don't live Jive in those blood thirsty blood times doctor s' s The The doctor smiled significantly and doomed about to answer but changed I c his mindWell mindWell mind Well Wen then If OFarrell was ns us Mary must be Horatia I Interjected RIght Quito Quite right replied the doctor Do you oU propose to hypnotize OFarrell OFarrell rell tell In order to dig down to his subconscious sub sub- conscious self and ask It questions to inquired Tarrant with bland blahd sarcasm It wouldn't know answered Im mannel gravely Please remember Tarrant it Is IB only In the case of unstable unstable un un- stable table personalities that we can separate separate sepa sepa- rate the tho strands of that complex weave called consciousness No even if the thing were feasible we e should find nothing there The soul of It f If Indeed he be was worked worked i out ont its in s. IM n enJoyed enjoyed en- en Joyed all tho th-o fruits of Its singularly fortunate life lite and the residue of or personality per per- tonality was wholly absorbed In build build- y ing log up the OFarrell of today Mary then 1 I I Unnecessary replied the doctor t tersely Persons of the neurasthenic temperament are aro already hypnotized that Is to say there always exists In them a more or less complete inhibition tion of certain sensory faculties which artificially produced is called sis But even then only In the rarest cases does enough of the old personality personality personS person person- S remain behind to form an entity I capable of remembering its past his his- tory No Then what do you propose to do Asked the millionaire I 1 confess I dont don't believe In your theories theories with with due respect respect but but I am intensely cun curi ous I Intend answered the Greek If It ItI I have the opportunity to revive Just enough of the Mary Marv before Defore she enters the toy lor after that I do not think that we shall i ever set eyes on her again aln I I pius moa tte-moa to e neT ner to knit together together to to- gether the strands of her consciousness conscious conscious- ness to make her t personality com BO so mat rant sno Bno may understand nd herself bersel and her destiny How asked Tarrant bluntly How can enn I see Bee her ber Why curiously enough Mary and her mother are coming here bore to dine with Mrs Tarrant and myself next F Friday day evening answered the other It la Je to be In a sense a farewell visit viall Then Thon If It wo we may be your sour guests I 1 will ul do my best said eaid the tho doctor Of or course frankly all aJl this Is only a hypothesis by hy though I 1 have certain reasons rea rea- sons sons but but I dont don't want to arouse any false raIse hopes I would like to help that young man OFarrell though Now here bore is the tho crux of ot the matter Can you arrange to have bave OFarrell hero at atthe atthe atthe the same time 7 Paul Tarrant considered I have no doubt that I could mana manage f it he said for tor he often orten drops drol s in Ill tor A chat and a a. cigar with mo me in the tho eV evenings tn s. s Since this trouble came upon him S A Ahas has forsaken most moot of ot his bachelor friends and seems seems' to take a melancholy melancholy melancholy melan melan- choly pleasure In revisiting this house where he lie first met Mary Roth way But Butto Butto Butto to confront him with her would be cruel to both and lose me the friend friend- shin of either Still said Immanuel if it the happiness happiness hap hap- of both hinged upon such a meeting would you take the chance 1 Yes it If you could convince me that there is a hope Then look at it this way said the doctor noctor laying his hand on Tarrants Tarrant's shoulder Put aside asido all thought of my theory Imagine simply that you ou are are- bringing the two people face to face by a strategy In the hope of reconciling reconciling reconciling recon recon- them If It you fall well tall well you have done your best and have nothing to reproach yourself with And If you succeed succeed poor poor poor OFarrell Ill do It exclaimed Tarrant starting toward his desk Ill write OFarrell a J. J note noto at once asking him to drop in on Friday about nine o'clock fur for a a. smoke A Anti Aid tl Ill |