The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-09-16

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Ronald looked refisctively downward t.
his bOOt-tOe, but seemed to find nothing
there-except boot-toe.
II say, my frien1." he spoke at last,
haven't you got pin you can stick in mes
I'd like to know if Pm dreaming"
81 can convince you better than by pins"
replied Herr Lebensfunke "Iet me see
that hand you hide carefully"
Ronald Wyde slowly drew it from his
pocket, reluctantly though it
gInlged charity dole, and extended it to
the old man. It's little finger was gone.
"a defect that l am ooli,hly sensitive
about" said he. "A childish Participating
with 1gel tools, you know \ boy play
mate chopped it off by accident; l cut his
head open with his own Ratchet, and made
an idiot of him for lifa--that's all
81 could do this" said Herr LabenSfunke
pau,ing each word if it were some
what heavy, ani had to be lifted out of MS
crampei chest by fore; Il could draw your
entity into that magnet, leaving you side
by side with this corpse. | corld dssect n
finger from that same corp @ attach it to your
own dead hand by a little of that palpitat-
inS hfe-mass you have =ecn, pass an electric
stream through it, an | a junction would he
effected IN three or four days | could then
restore you to existence. whols AMI not
manned as now
1 con quite IH9 b1c ided OF dying, even
for day" answered Wyie. Couldn't you
contrive to lend a body while you
mending ay OWN:
lyon can take that one, if you like"
Ronald Wydo looked once more at the
sodden features of the corpse, and smiled
lugubriously.
a mighty shabby old customer" he SAIL
"and doutt ii | could feel at home in his
skin; but I'm willing to risk it for the sake
of the novelty of the thing"
The Old philosophers thin face lit up with
pleasure.
"You consent, tEenF' he chucklel in his
wOmanish treble
"Of cours, do. Begin at once. and have
done with it.
Not now. mein Herr; some notifications
must be made i'll tho connections
matters of detail. Come again tonight"
AT what hour"
at 10 Mein Vogelein, show the Herr the
wa V out. y
The GIRL who had been moving restlessy
about the room all this time, with her wild
brown eyes fixed now on Ronald, now on
the old man, AMI oftener in a shy inquisi-
tive stare, on ths corpse lit dusty chsul-
zeal lamp, and led the way down the
awkward passage and stairs. Ronald tried
to start a conversation with her as he fol-
lowed.
"YOu are too young. my birding, to be
accustomed to such sights as this upstairs"
"Birdling is not too young, she's almost
a." said the girl, proudly. And she likes
it, too; it makes her think of mother
Mother went to sleep on that table, mein
Herr"
Poor thingi she's half witte1," thought
Wyde as he passed into the street "By-by,
birdie"
Home he walked, briskly, to be met under
his flaming balcony by Lottschen's kindly
afternoon greeting. How had mein Herr
passed his Sabbath! she a ,kel.
Quietly enough, L. 1tt :Ecn. l met an old
philosopher on the God Acre, and went
home with linn TO his shop. Have you ever
heard of Herr DR.. I.ebenstunke2'
"TeS. mein Herr. Wrong here, they say"
and she tapped her wide. round German
forehead, AMI lifted her eye; expressively
hcavenwGrd.
"Soli himself to the evils' asked Wyde
LottcheD w-tS MT quite sure on that point
SOM SAID Gne thing, AMI some another.
There wa unduubt IDLY devil, else how
could good DR. Luther have thrown his ink
stanl at him: But ho ha never been seen
in Or. L.aben funz5'; neighborhood; and,
the whole, Lott@ien was inclined to attrib-
uta the Herr IL ct0r's trouble TO ind elm
abIo somethius wa nature Wa; broadly
hinte! at by more tapping OF the forehead.
Ronald Wyde mounted tho stairs, lockeI
himself in his room, and wished himself out
OF the scrapo he was getting into. But, be-
ing III for 1t now, iie lit "A cigar, and triei to
fancy the process = he would have to go
through, and how he, natty and respecta-
BILE young fellow, woul look and feel i'll a
druukard's skin. His cOnjectures being too
foggily outlined 10 please him, lie put them
aside, and waited inpauiently enough for 10
O'Clock
y moonlight walk through the low streets,
tran>f;sur,.d hy the liver cieam INTO fairy
viStaS-ali hut thu odor--brousht him u
Herr LeLon 'fun!le's huu5e. Simple bird
ling on the lockout for him piloted him
through the unsafe channal and brought
him To anchor in the ,iinly lit room.
"All j. ready" aid the philosopher, he
tramblsd forward AMI shook Ronald's hand.
$3.50 here" Zig Gags "f silk-bounI wire
squirmed hither and thithor from the life
magnet. Two of them ended in carbon
points "And here, too. my young fren l.
is your new finger
1t lay detached in the central globe, and
on its severed end atoms of protoplasm
were already clustered Literally n sec
ond-handvl article" thought Ronald; but,
not venturing to tran slate the idiom, he
only bowel and sail: "Ach so!' which
means any thing AMI every thing in German.
Ii wa not without very natural sinking
of the heart that r. Ronald Wyle dive,ted
him ,elf of his clothing. AMI took his posi-
tion, by the old mans direction, on the
stout table, siie by side with the dea l. y
flat brass plate rrsSed between his <h ,uld-
ers, AMI ole of the carbon points clamp,d
in little insulated stand, roStei Oh his
bosom and qu.v-.re with the qaiekanoi mo
tioa u tao heart b..,e.Gl it. The other
point ton-ho the deal r;a,', breast.
"Are y,ou rua.iy:'
"Te..'
The old r:aa pre- Il KY, ;nI as he did