Show 4 4 T the h e tracer Irao cro of boos 0 0 0 0 1 chronicles of dr phileas immanuel soul specialist 0 0 BY BU VICTOR ROUSSEAU 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 THE professors PEACH TREES 1 0 0 N r RO FESSOn GARRETSON was a P LJ manof man of about fifty live five his face i 1 was inte intellectual newa i and stamped with a certain austeel austere power yet set it also impressed no ino us as that of an imaginative man LL a dreamer who has trilis ed making his mark in jafe to because lie he held lils his judgment jn in abeyance ance while alle pondering the emotional values and this diagnosis was entirely correct for thirty years hohag he had held the chair ot of classical languages at maryland university and was now retired upon I 1 acom a comfortable forta bli pension he was visiting a 1 new I 1 york friend on the eve ot of sending his ward margaret lassalle off to europe europa miss aliss lassalle was twenty a quiet thoughtful girl t airi strikingly kingly like her guardian in temperament it if he be had been you younger nger and she older theirs would have been I 1 thought an ideal union aillon tile the professor sor had adopted her anthe on the death deaf h of at her mother when she aas was a baby and the ille affection between them was a very close one 1 I 1 met the them in at doctor Im manuels apartments in new york miss lasale lassail sail e was to sail tor for england two days later bater and they had bad come to pay a visit to the greek physician who was an intimate friend by corre correspondence that Is to say phileas immanuel and arthur Gar garrestson reison though this was va only their second meeting had both be been nr prominent ronit nent members of the archaeological society at athens which is as most people know largely t an american enterprise the strange couple did not stay lonk long after my arrival when they had gone and we three were left alone immanuel Im manual 1 I anda and paul tarrant the richman rich man whose monoe monograph eiph aponas upon assyrian coins will I 1 fancy last longer than his banking house bouse the doctor spoke of them garrison is one of my oldest Irlen friends dg he said bald we have corresponded tor for years although denover we never nover met until last week did you notice the curious attachment between betwee n him and his ward W we had bad both noticed it you would think a well to do bach like th that atwould would try to marry her suggested tarrant on the contrary ari answered the doctor garretson la Is sending her to europe precisely to avoid thit that eventuality tua lity you know he be has made a sort ot of father confessor of me during our long epistolary acquaintance I 1 suppose hei he thought that we should never meet and that he could better unburden himself to a stranger he is quite desperately in love with her and I 1 fancy she cares a good deal for him but he realizes the difference in their ages and there chere is a young man in england to whom he fancies miss margaret Marg aref lokot is not indifferent so bo he 40 Is going to send her thero there tor for a couple of years bears osteD ostensibly sibly to study music hut but really I 1 think in the hope dofher of her happy marriage and the poor sellow fellow is brokenhearted broken hearted he paused and suddenly I 1 knew that thai there was waa more a great deal more to tho the story rand and yet he added if both only knew that each to is dei destined tined for the other that unless they recognize each other they will suffer through many lives to come tarrant always came to the point bluntly 1 I see he began that this Is another reincarnation story when d did i d they love last in greece assyria rome siberia or in uttermost iry thirty five years ago answered the doctor fifteen years before the girl was born cried tarrant exactly this story does not deal with their incarnation either in greece or rome although I 1 do sot not doubt that they were vere lovers then I 1 I 1 know bv hs history from friends and have pieced it together shall I 1 tell you gentlemen why you tell him asked the millionaire because answered immanuel these things cannot be forced are not intellectual processes but matters of spiritual recognition you dont care to hear though 7 he add ed a little huffily yes indeed cried tarrant apologetically getic ally pray go on doctor but I 1 may ask questions I 1 A hundred answered immanuel smiling did you ever hear bear of peloma aJack jack he said abruptly you mean jack pelorus no paul and now I 1 am dealing with a matter of record for you will find a reference to him in the laws of the austrian commonwealth pelorus peloma jack to la a dolphin and the only dol aln who Js strictly protected by ota titto during all seasons of the year lie he must be remarkable flan fish said tarrant he Is 16 11 snapped immanuel he la in supposed by tho the sailors to be ba the re of a rench french R ench fia herman whY who died not long asp ago la in an australian gralian coast city question number one said bald tar tap icart id you mean to lay bay that men acore era b oi ri nit deb j animals T you yen have anticipated my argument paul the doctor answered under almost all circumstances no 1 yet though almost universally when once we become human the smaller doors are shut behind us sometimes we do become entangled as the indian scriptures phrase it thatis that Is to ta say it if the desire for reincarnation nathon Is so BO intense that it tran transcends sedi ads thoma the mechanical ch possibilities the ds carnate soul may return to birth using the limited medium at its possession 61 either theras as a beast oe or as ap 10 ant jant you 26 will find it distinctly stated s ln in the books that the departed soul descends first into plants plants Plant sl shouted tarrant you mean that I 1 shall come back as a geranium no my dear fellow answered ian nanuel manuel smiling 1 I mean that the body making g potentialities may first be concentrated and cussed to so to speak in some plant medium for a while havo hav 0 you never heard of the vr dreads dryads ads the greek spirits of the trees 7 it strikes me I 1 suggested that weare we are getting off the track suppose we return first to pelorus jack and then to the professor pelorus jack yes well ife he was simply a dolphin who formed the agreeable habat of at meeting all incoming ocean steamships and piloting them into the harbor of celb Melbourne ou rue was as it sydney anyway he became so famous and popular that the idom commonwealth mon wealth government made it a crime to kill him n and until within the last year or so he was a constant feature of interest to the passengers buti instanced hain as an example of a sodba soul coming becoming entangled in animal form now I 1 will hark bark back to professor garretson thirty five years ago andrew afar garretson then a young man of twenty came came to this country from scotland and settled in prince gedge county maryland he was a well to do youth his big father having recently died and left him the only child a modest ah annual competence I 1 baiev believe e his pui purpose in leaving scotland was to escape cap the memories of soffie some boyish love affair whatever it was it was nothing lasting although at ai the tinie time he probably thought that thatis it was you see even in those days he be was susceptible cep tible just a shy bright affectionate lad who picked out maryland of all pla places cesin in the world as bethought he thought by a whim but really because helas he was controlled by tar far reaching purposes mary lassalle was the only daughter of one of the professors at the university lassalle meeting garretson took a fancy to him and after some so thought the young scotchman atchman Sc who was of a studious disposition determined ter mined to enroll at tile the university and endeavor to become one of th the faculty after his graduation that was the sort eort of quiet life that appealed to him and hd has never had reason to regret his decision the two I 1 young people tell fell madly in love with each ther other 0 it was one of those romantic attachments rare in that day and time though not so rare as now there was a sort of spiritual bond between them which made each almost a portion of the other at t was almost as though the same soul animated both bodies so unworldly was their love that the thought of marriage was looked upon by both only as something ultimate and remote professor lassalle and his wife looked favorably upon the engagement it was arranged that the young 9 people should be married as soon as garretson completed lla ila course and obtained the position which would obviously lie olento open sto one of his talent As you maj may know he Is one of df the few classicists class lel ats la in america of worldwide world wide reputation the year bedr 18 1880 90 was one remarkable for many things among these was the spiritualist craze which was running through america like a fire truo it was fox had bad laid the foundations of the modern spiritualist cult culk at rochester but in the late seventies there was a re remarkable mariable recrudescence recrudesce ned of this superstition impudent mediums imposed upon the gullible all through tho the large and small email cities of the country they do yet I 1 am told but then the imposture was comparatively I 1 new it did not pass over even the quiet little home of th the 0 lassalles where garretson boa boarded rAed the two elders and the young people often sat round the table and laid on hands bands with the usual obtaining of amusing and impossible communications we know now that these forces are noth ang ing but thought impressions either of the sitters or of others other cast off and congealing round this magnetic nucleus mere rubbish from the worlds psychic wastebaskets waste baskets so to say bay sut but to the young people all this I 1 was very real they lived in a world peopled with invisible and to them death deat h wig was ua nothing anora inore than a simple transition from ong man dilion to another different 11 if J I 1 should alq i y you on andrew drew 1 said mary Laia lassalle alle 1 shall f cow come back to you I 1 shall nev nover er go far ar from you beloved not tor for a ment till you rejoin me 1 A andrew garretson always eme edom ni b bared e red that thai dv evening erling fo tor r on the next lexi day mary was was taken ill with con congestion congest gei t 4 on of the lungs she never recovered the chill settled deep into her loy system stem tuber tuberculosis culos Is the dread disease ot at that period supervened in vain they closed tho the windows and condemned lier her to a single un venti room she grew rapidly worse and died less than three months after the onset of the di disease died with her hands in Garr Garret sons and her heri atad had on hla his breast and her eyes ayea turned up to hla in confidence ot of the con continuance ti nuance of their lovo love tl through roligh all mortal changes chang qs for weeks after tile funeral andrew I 1 garretson was waa out 0 of f his mind when ailant at last the loving nursing of mrs lassalle Las salla brought him back to health he be tool took up lit bis s life with th the profound conviction that thai mary was aver ever with him watching over him sometimes alio those se three iwo would u id sit elt at the table and ana try to obtain ib tain nies messages sage from her ber but though them the usual phenomena occurred evens even to their minds it became obvious that thai marykwas Mary was ks not there that some soine lying or evil I 1 ligen ces controlled the tilts A last by tacit consent these thesa sittings were hero abandoned The there renever never were such flowers as aa grew in the lassales garden that first summer after marys death and their peach orchard which had never done well now blosi blossomed omed out into arito a matvel marvel ot of beauty deep wine rod red blossoms covered the young shoots and an after dafter a while it seemed as though the strength of the flowers was ml 11 concentrated in these peach people came from tar fer andrear and near to look at them and the next year it wag a the same andrew garretson now one of the faculty obtain edthe reputation 11 of one cue who could make anything grow grov tor for him its quite common I 1 Inter interpose pod ive often heard beard people say that flowers flower 6 will not grow for them while others can charm them and have wonderful gardens gardena 11 doctor immanuel shot a quick glance at me yes yea he answered anaw ered flowers are quite conscious is of the perso personality baliti of those aho N tend them but perhaps aps the most astonishing thing and one which puzzled experts from various botanical stations was that in his hia presence tile the plants actually lost loat the faculty what on earths that doctor asked tarrant the faculty of turning tows toward edthe the sun plants in window boxes you may have noticed invariably turn their backs disdainfully upon their posses possessors soro and point outward toward the light yet it was affirmed that Garret Bons window plants pointed inward however whether this wae were the case or not I 1 spoke of the I 1 peach orchard in ia which all the power that he evoked seemed to he be centered so the years ears r rolled od on Gir garretson retson was now thirty five his fiancee had bad she lived would have been over thirty mrs Eassa lassalle lle had died two tivo years previously and the old professor who mourned her loss desperately and could not be comforted suddenly endeavored deavo red to find happl nees in life by b y marrying again until this time garretson had lived with the lassales that is to say till the ladys death and afterward with Lassa lassalle ife alo alone ne the advent of the new mistress changed all that naturally A a woman does not want her husbands friend and a prosy fellow at that as a perpetual bo boarder aider added to which the now new mrs lassalle conceived a distinct aver aversion stoff to garretson so he moved out of the house and about this time lassalle being superannuated retired with his wife to a little country home some twenty nill miles es away so I 1 the long friendship wi ann bi broken gasn up Garret garretson sori boarded a vc low few blocks dis als i fiant from the old cibu house Es and lived almost a recluse lecluse lils hla only ifie morles those ot of mary diary La lavealle Lase palle alle his only hopes of meeting her again the new owner of tho the lassalle home borne pitying the forlorn man suggested eug that he should continue to take sara dare ot of the garden and to this proposition garretson Garre gladly assented absented then very sud suddenly deuly a strange ange event occur occurred iid in the june of 1892 just when the wonderful peach trees were putting forth little green balls of fruit they died not in a month or a week they 4 died in three days every leaf fell from the shrivelling shri velling twigs the young fruit fells tell the tha dead trees stood out desolate against the landscape la in early summer and tile the flowers that had been so brilliant became ve very ry ordinary flowers indeed and never afterward did garretson possess that power wh which ich had haa been the subject of so much comment four days after this strange occurrence a iel telegram grm WAS handed to garretson while he sat in his lonely room in the boarding house it was from rom professor lassalle and read come at once truth ruth Is dying and calls for you garretson arrived ten minutes ibe before she died she had given birth to a little girl three days before about the time when the peach trees died wien when she saw andrew enter her room she turned to ham ra with all her remaining strength tako take her caro care for her ber she whispered and ana forg forgive lyo that was all she could say afterward lassalle aped garretson Garre that with the birth of the child she had seemed to expert fence ence a sudden rev revulsion in her feelings toward andrew she 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