By TOM FLYNN As a child, my favorite Christmas story was a little volume, a gift from my mother, Henry Van Dyke’s “The Story of the Other Wise Man.” As Van Dyke related the story there were four Magi, not three, who set out to find the newborn King of the Jews — Caspar, Melchior, Balthazar and Artaban. Each was bearing rich gifts. Artaban’s were three jewels — a sapphire, a ruby and a pearl.