The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-09-07

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II is the inarticulate language that
transcends all iauguages-the sweet speech of
flesh to flesh. There's a string of paradoxes
for you, doctor, whereof you will comprehend
that; l only know that tn Look ana touch Of a
certain womaa will take a certain man captive,
body and bones; aud the more he is captive
tho better he likes it That was my case. L
said another man owned it, but l knew naught |
Of him. l have proved my right to it; and il it
were to take over again l would take It'll"
Love. therefore, Is wholly a physical mat
ter?" said Dr.. Carajo, with a smile
eyes; and yet by that inspiration man has
invented poetry, and the soul and heaven, and
all manner OF the glorious hallncinations
Love cannot see, we say; no-nor will the sun
ever cease to warm the cold, or water to re-
fresh tho thirsty. But neither the sun nor the
water, nor love itself, will animate the dead
so what is one more than the other?'
'Surely a convincing argument" remarked
DR.. Carajo, still smiling. and with . glance
toward the cnrtaiued aIcove. Sand lovers
parted on earth are parted forever. The only
wonder Is that for 50 slight a cause a man
should compromise himself so deeply. The
world is wider than a woman's arms; and
power, learning and revenge are sweeter than
her kiss"
81 have not found them So" replied the
other, closing his eyes.
long silence followed, during which Dr..
| Caraio's patient seemed to lie in a half-waking
dream. Ike physician watched MIN Clreluiiy.
At times he sprinkled his face with a certain
| volatile essence, tanning him the while with a
long-handled fan of white owls feathers; once
| or twice he made him swallow a powder of .
| reddish color. Tie fountain FLASHED in it's
| marble basin, and the rainbow lights from the
stained glass windows moved slowly along the
walls and across the floor, and the flowers in
their vases gave ont their perfume. And al
this time DR.. Carajo kept his face avsrted from
the alcove, whence came no sound nor move
ment
When at length the patient opened his eyes
once, a change was manifested in his appear
ance. His pallor was great, so that a white
CLEAN seemed to rest upon his face; his
features were sharper; blue veins showed
through the skin of his forehead, aud his eyes
were sunken and brilliant. His voice had lost
its depth and strength, but was clearer and
more penetrating than before. The expression
of his countenance was composed and medi-
tative.
"Where is Lenore?"
"Her time has not yet come" returned the
doctor. i.
"My mind beholds her clearly" rejoined the
other. My thoughts dwell with her and com-
mune with her own. In that sympathy of mind
all love consists. Without it the blind passion
of the heart and the senses are misleading aud
mischievous. They are the force, but intellect
is the guide; and when their force is gone the
intellect remains true to its choice. The delight
of love is IN the perception o. its harmonies;
and age, sickness or absence has no power to
obscure it."
tThen, were you TO see Lenore no more it
would not disturb you?" asked the doctor.
"Bodily presence is not without i's uses"
answered the other, calmly. ''To be q king
you must have a subject. and the body is the
subject of the mind. BY steadily ruling it the
mind realizes and confirms its aims and con-
clusions; and, on the other hand, the body, by
its suggestions and limitations, sees the mind
in motion, gives it strength. Without the
body love would be a dream, as. without the
mind, it would be but a sensual aud promis-
cuous instinct. Ncverth sless, love having
once attained bodily incarnation, l conceive
that henceforth the actual association together
Of the lovers is of secondary importance,
though, perhaps, the mind needs to be re-
freshed occasionally by renewed Intercourse
with its mate, providing it with fresh incl
dents and developments to consider and in
torpret"
"Your philosophy is certainly persuasive
Observed DR.. Carajo. "But from this point of
of the marriage bond?"
SIT is an ingenious dsvioe for the preserva-
ton of outward social order,' said the other,
but not in itself worthy OF an intelligent
mans respect. The laws Of the mind are
evidently above the control Of social laws.
We're all men ruled, as they ought to be, by the
intellect, bonds of any kind, marriage or
other, would cease to be, House
would be reared: but the free intercourse of
mind with mind, with all that that implies,
would be admitted, and, as a consequence, the
passion of jealousy would vanish along with
other relics of barbarism In other words,
marriage based upon intellectual sympathy
would no longer be checked bv marriages Of
merely material convenience. and immortality
would disappear with the artificial morality
which has created it." p
"A desirable contamination, indeed.p re-
marked DR.. Carajo. "Ana so you would.
without repugnance. behold Lenore IN posses
sion of ano,herof more sympathetic intellect
ual ~endowments than Yourself"
"The question seems a fair one,' returned
turned the other, doudtfully; 'sbut ! have,
perhaps, omitted some essential point in my
analysis. Allowing the possibility that such an
intellect as you suppose might exist, l still
can not conceive him as having rights over
Lenore. TIE fact that we have belonged to
each other has created between us something
that did not exist before. and which cannot be
removed; something neither physical nor intel
%lectnal, yet. more substantial than either. I
confess it perplcNas mo, and my mind is weary.
| must rest awhile before considering it fur
Their" .
Aud oven as he spoke he sank into a 10th
argy.
The interval between this stage and the final
one lasted but a few minutes, but was marked
by an even greater change in tho aspect of the
patient. The bodily substance of the man
seemed, to a great measure, to have sunk
away and become translucent, he WAS not so
muCn Il puVs1cal OBJECT as q spiritual pres
cuce. The light in his eyes had the appear,
ancs of proceeding from SOM source beyond
matter, and to see things which Material sight
has no cognizance of. AT times a slight trem-
bling passed through him as if his body were
shaken by the effort of some inward power to
break away from its Imprisonment. His
voice, reduced to n whisper. nevertheless
thrilled upon the ear with a distinctness and
force that outdid the noisines5 OF the sturdiest
lungs.
"Lsnose!a he exclaimed, commandingly,
"Hush!" said DR.. Carajo. with a frown.
"She Is not here"
"She is behind that veil, y returned the other;
'let her come forth" N-s
At first there WAS no response to this sum-
mons; but by and by the curtain was grasped
from within and slowly drawn aside. In tho
opening appeared the figure of Lenore, white
in face and figure, like a ghost obeying a
ghostly mandate. AS her glance met that Of
Dr.. CaraJo's patient sho faltered and uttered q
low cry.
You are dying, my love!" she said; she has
killed you!"
by no means said DR.. Carajo, sullenly.
sat this moment | would buy his life with my
own. Human skill has done its utmoPt"
DO not come too near murmured IGNORES
lover, as she advanced toward him. "We have
no time to LOSE az
'Am l not you're? Do you not love me?"
sire cried, in a voice weighted with unshed
tears, and holding out her hands to him.
~ ''Therc is u spiritual barrier between u.s."
he said. "Do not by your tisshy hand disrs-
gard it 1t seemed to me that l loved you; it
seems still. But there has never been a true
union between you and me. The license OF
tue body, the arrogant insanity of the intellect
these parody love and banlsh it Can happi-
ness DO founded on murder? And we murdered
marriage, Lenorem
"But 1 never loved him, nor he mo-" she
said, possionately. And thon with a swee ping
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