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| over girl-some worthless woman,
understand. It's in the American
| People, l guess it's a case of profess
sional rivalry which can drive his car
| harder and faster, and the man who
wins the Savannah race VIII naturally
be the hero in her eyes. 10 wonder
the poor fellow wants to get out of
the hospital in time for that event"
Just like Byzantine times" said
Doctor Emmanuel; and then we knew
he was riding his hobby again.
Doctor Emmanuel was telling me
this afternoon that the Greeks in
vented automobile racing" I said, ma
liciously. you referred, of course,
doctor, to the fact that the Byzantines
were crazy over chariot racing, and
meant, / take it, that Harris and Nor
ton were once competitors in the stad-
ium for the laurel wreath and purse
Certainly" answered the little doc
tor, nursing his knee. Nations are
reincarnated as we'll as individuals.
Just as ancient Greece, with her UNI
paralleled painters, sculptorS and
architects, was reborn as the Italy of
the middle ages, with Michaelangelo,
Rafael and Da Vinci, and Rome lives
again in England, so America is
Rome's mightiest offshot, Byzantium.
How can you doubt these parallels?
What were the Roman qualities?
Justice, aggrandizement, very poor
appreciation of the arts but an I'M
equsled sense of law, which gave US
the foundations of every western sys-
tenn of Jurisprudence until the common
law of England spread through the
| English-speaking world. Has any
country but England inherited the Ro-
man instinct for self-government?
| And is the Englishman a member of
an artistic nation?"
We'll" said l, "but how about
America being Byzantium?"
81 am coming to that" the doctor
answered, letting his knee fall. Il
shall pass by the common social in
! stincts of the two nations, their amaz-
/ ingly similar love of luxury, and sup
port my case by a single parallel.
What is it that unites every American
to his fellows on certain days of the
year in a communion of passionate
ecstacy?"
The presidential election" said
Tarrant, laughingly.
The Fourth of July" said I.
"Pshaw, gentlemen; guess againi"
Baseball" shouted the millionaire.
Eyes, or, in its wider application,
sport. You know, of course, that the
Roman passion for games reached its
apothesis in ByZantium. AT the chart
OF races the Greens and the Blues
fought and mauled one another as saw
agely IS Orangemen and Hibernian
today, or the hackers of opposing
baseball teams would wish to-. Well.
gentlemen, to cut this disquisition
short, l have discovered who Harris
and Morton are"
The doctor rose and walked toward
our hosts well-filled library shelves,
which were stocked with books of an
cient history and antiquities-his
hobby. He took down a stout volume
bound in calfskin and turned the
pages until he found what he sought
He seemed about to read it, but sud
denly replaced the volume on the
shelf
SHOW us, Emmanuel" pleaded Tar
rant.
mo, gentlemen; not until my faith
has been indicated" the doctor an
swered. but l will tell you. Harris
in his last birth is named Hippias, and
was the son of a Bithynian slave.
Morton was named Coluber. and was
also slave, but in the palace of JUS
tinian. He was q skilful charioteer,
and drove Empress Theodora's chart
OTIS when she entered them in the
races. The men were rivals for the
love of a beautiful slave of the en-
press named Iris"
And Iris is"
Mae Connolly the woman in this
case. Hers was the name that Harris
whispered as he recovered conscious
ness"
DO you claim, DOCTOR" said Tar
rant, that we must return to earth
to go through the weary round OF our
past lives, with all their sins and fall
ures-and even successes" asked our
host, seriously. 81 confess that that
prospect is not an alluring one. l, for
example, have not the slightest wish
to be a millionaire a thousand or if
teen hundred years from now.
would like something different"
: only when the past life has been
= cut short without the fulfilment of its
I destiny" answered the doctor grave
+ ly.
e you told me once, I think" said
Tarrant. that it was sometimes posi-
h BILE to discover these lost secrets by
IS hypnotism?"
l. Yes, rarely. All dreams of an in
lie tense nature. all the imaginings of de
n hrium are usually reflection of for