The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1888-12-08

Whist ami to think of all this? Does 10
seem reasonable? How, I.ask you as a plain
man, could girl love and marry the ;mt,r
derer of her father? Why, the wildesr flight
| of fiction, where license is most allowable.
would draw the line at that"
"Ny dear ST." responded Mr., Asgard,
quietly, 81 am not responsible fof the wers.
| ings of destiny. / am simply their humble
| exponent, for the good. trust, of those who
wise than destiny You can rest assured
that events win tfauspifs just as have
, aid usess--'
Unless x5 i, -" :-. in ARTHUR. sqgsg Iis;
"Unless," said Mr. Asgard, Slows, Hs''A
current of events changed by those who are
part and parcel of those events, for they
alone can movein the matter. You and you
| alone, have the tinalterable and inalienable
power to shape the COURSE Of sssr swu life
Il"
'if Ehst?'' again put IN Arthur, eagerly.
as Mr.: Asgard parssad as seeking for an
"if:'' returned our venerable friend, slowly,
1--WE are absolutely Sure Of the conditions OF
| those events, and tRke deliberate measures
| to insurs the possibility Of their happening:
And their" returned Mr.. Asgard, mus
| ingly, s.hnd ;then-hS, and then what? At
our peril. have seen much zen : and foretold
much, but l have yet to record a single IN
stance of the successful defeat of fate, even IN
cases where there was the most express and
premeditated purpose of doing So
Then, you say" continued Armitage, with
the evident intent 81. pushing our friend into
for me, to escape doing what my horoscope
has laid down for me that must, in short,
be guilty OF those iifltatural acts which you
| have stated
MI: Asgard paused and bowed his head
upon his hand before he answered. When he
did sc he spoke very deliberately and
earnestly.
Yes said he, 81 believe that, practically,
| there is no escape from the conclusions
| drawn from the CONGREGATIONS of the stars
and the tisions In the crystal. Still, theo-
retieally there is, and there IL no reason why
you, of all men, should not use your best on.
deat6rs to defeat such terrible and peculiar
destiny as We have just foreseen."
But how?'' asked tArmitage, sharply and
impulsvely, for could see that, somehow, he
was getting every moment more and ffofe
deeply imbued With the plausibiity
of Mr. Asgard's argument:
There il but one practical course that
| can see." returned Mr.. Asgard, land that is
to eliminate your own personality from the
chart"
And how is that to be done?" inquired
| Arthur.
| "By making sure" answered Mr.. Asgard,
| chat you cannot, by any possibility, parti-
cipate in the events foretold, for the simple
reason that you do not fulfill the conditions
| of time and place"
"Ahl' acquiesed Arthur; "then will you
please enlighteh me"-and l could see the
skeptiral twinkle in his eye as he said So
regarding those very necessary essentials of
| time and place. Where and when, for in
stance, am to kill my uncle, and-and Miss
| Ethel Boothby, for your descriptions are GER
tainly unsnswerable, and how con l escape
| l-l ,nt, ts
out for me by the planets" and Arthur in
dulged in the faint tnockery OF laugh,
| thing which remember was sorry for, as
| he said this 'Give ME the time and place,
and will put my resolution against destiny
that what you have foretold never occurs"
Mr.. Asgard said nothing, but again took
| the paper upon which the horoscopes were
| drawn IN his hands and scrutinized them
| closely,
| 1.-The place." he said presently, drawing
| deep and sympathetic inspiration, "can not
| be precisely worked out from the data have
got. But the time can The planets in the
| sixth and seventh houses of the horoscope
point Enthusiastically to the fatality l have
said. Mars and Saturn on the cusp of the
seventh, in platte quadrature to the sun in
! the fourth--for unlike Lilly and the astrolo-
| gers of our modern era, l use both natural
| and mundane aspects-sines, co-sires and
| tangents-signifies, OF course, the violent
death of tho nearest relative tn the signifca-
| tor. But w hen? All, when? That, fortunate
| ly, we can limit by producing the secondary
| aspect, and by drawing rapt parallels to-
| ward the meridian. This fatality must
occur"-and in these words Mr.. Asgard be-
| came more solemn and impressive than ever
must occur directly on the point of the
suns ingress into cancer"
"And when is that" asked Arthur, half in
credulously, but wholly earnestly.
"At twenty-five minutes past 3 on the
| morning of the 22d of June, next year, when
Mars and Saturn will be in quadrature to the
sun, the one in aries, the other in libra" re-
| turned Mr.. Asgard, referring to his figures.
"And if this casualty you speak of does
not occur am safe?" inquired Arthur, anx-
| iously.
Precisely speaking, yes, returned Mr.. As.
| gard, slowly; although, remember that la
| bored under disadvantages when castingyour
horoscope and as degrees and minutes are of
| the first and only value in estimating time, it
| is possible, in the present instance that the
| incidents have foretold may occur either
sooner or later by an hour or two than the
actual elimination of the aspect"
sin other words you draw out, said Ar
| thur rising from his seat and butt oning up
| his coat to go; "you are not sure ofanything.
| There is always o loop-hole to crawl out of,
and-excuse me, but must 60"
To say that was surprised at this very
strange movement on the port of my friend
| Armitage so utterly different from the tone
and manner that had known for years. is
very weakly to express the sentiments than
| possessed me at the time. Mr.. Asgard bowed
| us out, like courteous man of the world, and
| together we strolled silent and moody back
to college. Arthur was not himself again tor
more than a week after, for could frequent
see him grinding his teeth and muttering
| to himself ir q manner wholly unlike him,
and though tried over and over again to
| pull him out of the moral slough into which
| he had evidently sunk, | made no Roadway,
| and eventually was fain to leave things to
| themselves.
So the term wore on till commemoration
| when, of course, we went down into the coun-
| try. do not think either Arthur or myself
| gave the visit to the astrolOger more than
| passing thought afterward-I certainly did
not.
| Une thing. however, recalled it very fOrcibly
| to my mind before had been week at Booth
| by Court which was the first on the list of
places to which we. as eligible undergrad
utes, had been invited and were morally COM
PEELED to go. That was the episode on the
| terrace, and the whole thing struck me like
| q flash 80 wildly did it recall the vision Mr..
| Asgard had seen in the crystal.
This, however, was fogotten as soon ~
seen so prone is youth to repudiate what It
does not like. Arthur Armitage and myself
passed greats" next May at the end OF the
long term, and together we again took the
| London and northwestern for home, as we
| had done many times before.
believe that our little university incident
with tho nstrologer was forgotten month
after it occurred. At all events it was never
referred to and passed, in the busy whirl Of
existence that we were swept into like vor-
| tex, into the past.
| In the following Spring Arthur concluded
to make the regulation tour of the world.
year being allotted him for doing 80. l
would have gone with him myself if the state
of my finances had permitted. As it was,
| I had the pleasure of seeing him of-a pleas
ure, by the way; which sometimes does not
work both ways. For eight or nine months
| we heard little or nothing of the wanderer
| telegram from Brindisi, another from Alex
andria, q slip of paper. from Aleppo.
| Beyrout, Damascus and Teheran; a
| big draft from a mercantile house in
Bombay, another from Singapore, and
third from Hong Kong. served to keep his
! uncle reminded that he was in the land of the
living yet. The last letter l recollect being
| received was one from our own city OF San
Eronc;soo utn FIN 0 th ot he might he pxDetted