The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-03-01
= ROFESSOR GARRETSON was a
J man Of about fifty-fve. His face

was intellectual and stamped
with q certain austere power
VET # also impressed me as that of an
imaginative man, dreamer WHO
has missed making his mark IN
fife because he held his judgment
in allowance while bordering 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 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, I thought, an ideal
union. The professor had adopted her
on the death Of her mother when she
was a baby, and the affection be-
tween them was a very close one.
1 met them at Doctor lmmanuels
apartments in New York Miss Las
sale 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 Emmanuel
and Arthur Garretson, though this
was only their second meeting, had
both been prominent members Of the
Archaeological 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, I, and Paul Tarrant, the
rich man whose monograph upon AS
syrian coins will, 1 fancy, last longer
than his banking house-the doctor
spoke of them.
"Garretson is one Of my Oldest
friends he said. eve have CORE
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 1t.
"You would think well-to-do bach.
elor like that would try to marry her."
suggested Tarrant.
ION The contrary" answered the
doctor, "Garretson is sending her to
Europe precisely to avoid that even
tuality. You know he has made sort
of father confessor of me during our
LONG" epistolary acquaintance. I sup
pose he thought that we should never
meet and that he could better unbur-
den himself to stranger. He Is quite
desperately in love with her, and l
fancy she cares 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, I think, in the hope Of her
happy marriage. And the poor fell
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
other they will suffer through many
lives to come"
Tarrant always came to the point
bluntly. 81 see," he began, that this
is 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
doubt that they were lovers then. l
know his history from friends and
have pieced it together. Shall I tell
you, gentlemen?"
"Why didn't you tell him?" asked
the millionaire.
Because" answered Emmanuel,
"these things cannot be forced; they
are not intellectual processes but mat
tiers of spiritual recognition. You
don't caro- to hear, thought" he add
ed. little huffily.
Eyes, iu@eed," cried Tarrant apollo
getically. "Pray go on, doctor. But
I may ask "uestions?"
"a hundred" answered Emmanuel,
smiling. did you ever hear Of Pc
lorus Jack?" he said abruptly.
"You mean Jack Pelorus?"
mo, Paul; and now I am dealing
with q matter Of record, for you will
find a reference to him in the laws of
the Austrian commonwealth. Pelorus
Jack is a dolphin, and the only dol
phin who is strictly protected by
statute during all seasons of the
year"
''He must be a remarkable fish,
said Tarrant.
Gle is" snapped Emmanuel. "He is
supposed by the sailors to be the re-
incarnation of q French fisherman
who died not long ago in an Aus
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