The Monticellonian., 1917-02-22
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imaginative man. dreamer who has missed making his mark in life because he held his judgment in aheyance while pendering the emotional values And this diagnosis was entirely correct For thirty years he had held the chair of classical Ian guages at Maryland university, and was now retired upon comfortable pension. He was visiting a New York friend on the eve of sending his ward, Margaret Lassalle, off to Europe.
 Miss Lassalle was twenty-a quiet, thoughtful girl, strikingly like her guardian in temperament. If he had been younger and she older theirs would have been. l thought, an ideal union. The professor had adopted her on the death of her xother when she was a baby, and the affection be- tween them was a very close one.
 I met them at Doctor Immanuel' 5 salle was to sail for England two days later, and they had come to pay a visit to the Greek physician, who was an intimate friend by correspondence that is to say, Phileas Immanuel and Arthur Garretson, though this was only their second meeting, had both been prominent members of the A4 4haeological society at Athens, which is, as most people know, large ly an American enterprise.
 The strange couple did not stay long after my arrival. When they had gone and we three were left alone Immanual. l, and Paul Tarrant, the rich man whose monograph upon As syrian coins will. fancy, last longer than his banking house-the doctor spoke of them
 "Garretson is one of my oldest friends" he said We have eorre- sponded for years, although We never met until last week Did you notice the curious attachment between him and his ward ?'
 We had both noticed it.
 You would think a well-to-do bach elor like that would try to marry her" " suggested Tarrant.
 On the contrary" answered the doctor, "Garretson is sending her to Europe precisely to avoid that even .uality. You know he has made sort of father confesser of me during our long epistolary acquaintance. l sup pose he thought that we should never meet and that he could better unbur- don hiracplf To a ct IIn ie ta desperately in love with her, and I fancy she cares a good deal for him But he realizes the difference in their ages-and there is a young man in England to whom, he fancies, Miss Margaret is not indifferent. So he is going to send her there for a couple of years, ostensibly to study music but really, think, In the hope of her happy marriage. And the poor fel. low is broken-hearted."
 He paused, and suddenly I knew that there was more-a great deal more-to the story.
 And yet" he added, If both only knew that each is destined for the other, that unless they recognize each otTe they will suffer through many lives to come"
 Tarrant always came to the point 5luntly q sec" he began, that this ls another reincarnation story. When did they love last? In Greece, As. syria, Rome. Siberia, or in uttermost Tartary?"
 '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 do not ioubt that they were lovers then. know his history from friends and nave pieced 1t together. Shall I tell you, gentlemen?"
 Why didn't you tell him?" asked he millionaire.
 "Because,' answered Immanuel these things cannot be forced; they Ire not intellectual processes but mat .ers of spiritual recognition. You don't care to hear. thought" he add sd, little huffily.
 Yes, indeed" cried Tarrant apolo getically. Pray go on, doctor. But ! may ask questions?
 "A hundred" answered Immanuel smiling. Did you ever hear of Pc orus Jack?" he said abruptly
 You mean Jack Pelorus?"
 No, Paul; and now I am dealing with a matter of record, for you will ind reference to him in the laws ot he Austrian commonwealth Pelorus Jack is a dolphin, and the only dol phin who is strictly protected by statute during all seasons of tht year
 He must be remarkable fish, ,aid Tarrant.
 He is" snapped Immanuel. "He il supposed by the sailors to be the re incarnation of a French fisherman who died not long ago in an Aus .ralian coast city"
 Question Number One" said Tar ant Do you mean to say that mel Ire \rebern as fishes, or animals?"
 You have anticipated my argu ment, Paul" the doctor answered Under almost all circumstances-no Yet, though almost universally, whel once we become human, the smalle doors are shut behind us, sometime we do become 'entangled as the IT dian scriptures phrase it. That is t ,ay, if the desire for reincarnation i so intense that it transcends the me chanical possibilities, the discarnat soul may return to birth, using tn