The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1882-10-18

and himself could end thus abruptly
/ say two powers, for if Lord Fergus
had magnetic gaze, the princess pos
scssed a voice of wonderful sweetness
The human ear has never heard any
thing comparable TO It's music. Clear
rich, and vibrant IL ruled, cafessed ant
inspired, AT the first word she uttered
Lord Fergus thought: "It is incon
testable that if that voice commanded
the sacrifice of my life l should obey
without hesitation" Therefore, in re
sponse to the lady's plant he ap.
preached her, and having contemplated
her with his supernatural regard
asked:
Are you i'll, princessY" and his In
tense look seemed to add, ado you
think will permit you to sufferP"
The princess raised her fine eyes con-
fidingly to his face-eyes doubly beau
tiful from the tears Of pain glistening
like diamonds in their depths. "Yes,
suffering intensely from neuralgia -
she responded. "0h, if some one could
help me |"
al will relieve you Immediately"
said Lord Fergus. Lift up your head
and look at me-" AS he spoke he laid
the point of his index finger between
her eyes. Omnipotence of irradiation
and sympathetic projection The prin-
cess, without the slightest hesitation,
with no embarrassment whatever,
lifted up her head at once, and the ope-
rator passed his finger lightly along
the right eyebrow, This prelude was
so assured, so grave, that the most
captious mind could not have refused
to recognize it in power sure of it.
self and of its infallibility. The prin-
cess felt it instantly, and all the SYM
pathetic currents of her nature seemed
to concentrate beneath the lovely brow
which the light fingers of the operator
were caressing. What followed, hui
man language has no words to de-
scribe. The whole soul of Lord Fer
gus had passed into his fingers and
seemed TO emanate in waves of electric
ity from their very extremity. lie be-
gan by passing his hand over the fore
head and cheeks of the princess, scarcely
grazing them, causing the delicate skin
to tremble aS if brushed by a soft zephyr
Returning afterward to the junction of
the two eyebrows, he followed the con-
tour of the delicate arches with his
thumb, swept, going back, the cheeks,
and upward to the inner canthus of
the eye, to touch lightly the nose, glide
lightly along the upper lip, linger a
moment at the corner of the mouth
and reach at length the center of the
chin, where he stopped.
Lord Fergus, as an experienced ope-
rator, had reasons for stopping thus at
this first phase-preliminary phase, in
fact-for in starting anew from the
chin, the operator became more ener-
getic and animated. lie had some
times encountered caprice resistance
from the sick who were unable to bear
his iTradiations. He hesitated, then,
to observe the result of his efforts.
But in this case the eXpectant and COM
pletely resigned expression of the lady
left him in no doubt and after remain
ing moment with head thrown back
and eyes closed, in order to collect his
powers, he resumed his magnetic ma
Having laid both thumbs
upon the chin, he described a fan with
the fingers of each hand, inclosing the
checks of the princess within it, moved
his hands gently ovCT all the surface of
the face, slowly raising them to the
and lowering them until they
glided below the ear to the back of the
neck, and met in the fine, soft hair.
He then requested the princess TO move
her head gently, that he might adj
press and rub the ceryi-
cal articulations and muscles. This
had also the advantage OF
permitting the fingers to be thrust
more deeply into the capillary mass,
which is pre-eminently adapted for the
Of electricity, as every
one knows. The fingers Of Lord Fer
gus executed then, in the perfumed
they were buried, Il series
Of passes eXquisitely delicate. 1t was
in fact the decisive moment of the
operation, for the cure entirely de-
pended upon the perfect correspondence
between the fullness of the rachidian
bulb, situated at the brain, and the de-
pletiOn of the nervous ganglions of the
2ygomatic arch, whose plethora oc-
casioned the neuralgia in question.
This finished he undertook the third
and last part of the operation, by far
the most beautiful of all. His face eX-
pressed an inspiration truly august. As
his hands tluttered over the surface of
this almost divine face he resembled
an artist designing an angels face, or
a sculptor modelling the mead of a god
dess. lie, with beating heart and
checks red with enthusiasm, seemed !
ike Pygmalion animating his Statue
At last, in a transport of power and !
triumph, placing the index finger of |
his right hand between the eyebrows |
Of the princess, he said, with the air
OF a cOnquerOr:
"You are cured"
!, "a,