Mabel Collins 
The Blossom and the Fruit 

This strange story has come from a far country and was brought in a mysterious manner; we claim only to be the scribes and the editors. In this capacity, however, it is we who are answerable to the public and the critics. We therefore ask in advance, one favor only of the reader; that he will accept (while reading this story) the theory of the re-incarnation of souls as a living fact.