The Washington herald., 1912-08-04

the third man to work out my expert
ment" s{f4
Philip stopped in his tracks, and the
doctor stopped. and turned toward him
But the third" Philip began.
The little doctor continued to smile.
There are more things in heaven and
earth, Philip" he quoted, than are
dreamed of in your philosophy. This
love Of experiment has turned Out
wrongly. as far as preconccived the
cries are concerned, but when | think
of the broader. deeper significance OF
it all ] am-pleased is not the word"
what I can't see" Philip was stop
ped by the doctors lifted hand.
"You see, I am relying on your word
of honor, Phil" he explained, laughing
softly at the amazement which he saw
in the others face "It's all so wonder
full that want you to know the end
of it, and how happily it has turned out
for me-and the little woman waiting
for me back home. 1t was l and not
Falkner who cried out just before you
turned the lamp-wick down. A letter
had fallen from his coat pocket, and
it was one of my letters-sent through
my agent. Understand? sent you for
the ice, and while you were gone
told him who / was, and he told me
why ! had never heard from him, and
why he was in Pierre Thoreau's cabin.
My agent had sent him north with $500
as first payment. To cut long story
short, he got into card game in Prince
Albert-as the best of us do at times
and as a result become mixed up in a
quarrel, in which he pretty nearly killed
a man. They've been after him ever
since, and almost had him when we
found him, injured by blow which he
received in an ugly fall earlier in the
night. It's the last and total wrecking of
my theory"
But the girl" urged Philip.
Were going to see her now, and
she will tell you the whole story as she
told it to me-" said the doctor, as
calmly as before. "Ah, but it's wonder
full, man-this great, big, human love
that fills the world They two met at
Nelson House. as | had planned they
should, and four months after that they
smashed my theory by being married by
missionary from York Factory. l
mean. that they smashed the bad part
of il, Phil, but all three couples proved
the other-that there exist no such
things as soul affinities,' and that two
normal people of opposite sexes, if
thrown together under certain environ
ment, will as naturally mate as two
birds. and will fight and die for one
another afterward, too. There may no,
be one in ten thousand who believes it,
but / do-still. At the last moment the
man in Falkner triunphed over his love
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until the moment he met her he drank
and gambled, and that for his shooting
a man in Prince Albert he would sooner
or later get term in prison. And she?
/ tell you that she busted my theory
to a frazzle! She loved him, as ! now
believe every woman in the world is
capable of loving. and she married him,
and stuck to him through thick and
thin, fed with him when he was COM
PEELED TO run-and her faith in him now
is like that of child in its God. For
a time they lived in that cabin above
Perre Thoreau's. and perhaps they
wouldn't have been found out if they
hadn't come up to Fort Smith for a
holiday. Falkner told me that his pur-
suers would surely stop at Pierre's and
so we fixed up that little scheme to get
rid OF you that you would IN no way
be to blame for what happened He
told me where I'd find his wife. BY this
time he has good start for the States,
and will be there by the time l get his
wife down"
Philip had not spoken a word. AL
most mechanically he pulled the pho
tograph from his pocket.
"And this" he said.
The doctor laughed as he took the
picture from his hand.
rs Mrs. William Falkner, Phil Come
n. I'm anxious to have you meet her"