The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-05

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impossible, quite impossible. We have
neither the time nor the training. A detective
is Indispensable"
Then, in that event. / must beg leave to
withdraw. / am infinitely thankful to you, and
now l relinquish my claims in your behalf.
Follow the secret up with your detective if you
wish. But with his entrance | perform my
exit"
Monsieur Take lost his temper.
En-, you are a chicken hearted American, y he
Missed, IAN American. do you comprehend? |
wash my hands of You. Get out of here at
once"
took his hint.
But was at the very acme of despair.
What had | accomplished
L had set a'detectIve upon Damozelis father,
that is to say upon Damozel herself. She was
IN peril, in immediate peril. With a prison, or
perhaps worse, in store for her father, what was
her lot likely to be9 And II who had precipi-
tated the mischief was impotent to release
her. L was really no closer to her now than
before l had admitted Tako to my confidence.
And yet what evil had I not wrought
spent the residue of the day@in a fever. /
devised q hundred vain expedients. How should
l warn Tuli LammP considered a personal ad-
dressed to him in the Herald. But the detective
would remark it as well as he and head me off.
l considered nlnety-nine other procedures equal
ly absurd.
At night I went home. I sat in my room in
the dark. | believe a cyclone was raging in my
skull. Suddenly, as suddenly as a gunshot, an
idea fell upon me.
THANK Godr l cried, 'Damozel is saved"
This was my idea:
thoughtreader. Now, argued I, if | think very
lntently OF Tuli Lamm. will not Tuli Lamm be-
come aware of it and take the warnings
AT a soberer moment l should have secuted
THIS IDEA as preposterous. In my then mood [
fancled it was the contamination of human logic.
30 L Knit my brows and began repeating with
the utmost emphasis l could instil into the
words: "Tull Lamm, you are in danger; fly
from New York! Tuli Lamm, you are in dan
ger, fly ETC., ETC., etc.
L had repeated it thus, perhaps, a dozen times,
when the door leading into the hall creaked
open.
"Who is there7" I called, startled.
'Tuli Lamm," was the response.
l bounded from my seat. My blood curdled;
my hair rose on end. "Tuli Lamm!'I gasped.
You desired to speak to me, did you notg"
A something in his tone soothed me as effect
ually as water soothes thirst; my self-possession
returned to me unimpdired.
YES" said, II was pronouncing your name
even as you entered"
"Ah, | knew it, 1 knew it. You are a mar
vellous subject"
Excuse me, Mr.. Lamm," I said, while I
light the gas"
No, stay; don't light the gas. We can saw
what we have to say to better advantage in the
dark"
But"
"But I insist"
"Mr. Lamm," l resumed, "you know that 1
was pronounclng your name as you entered this
room. Did you know what words l coupled
with your name2"
mo, l could not make them OUT
mind2"
mo, I confess I cannot. You are too much
agitate1."
DO you know, Mr.. Lamm, that the Antha-
MAN government has set a price upon your lib
erty2"
Eyes, I know that"
DO you know that Monsieur Take, the An
thanian representative, is even now upon your
tracksg'
''That | did not know
1T is true. You are in imminent danger. He
has employed a detective and has staked his rep
utation upon catching YOU"
THE bloodhoupd!" muttered Tuli Lamm.
Then, ''Give me the particulars"
l gave them to him as amply as / could.
II thank you for the caution, he said when l
had finished. us that alll"
by no means. If | have cautioned you it
was not gratuitous. One good turn deserves an
other. Now, | want to ask you some questions.
L want to ask"
II know what you want to ask. You want to
ask, first, how l got you into my possession;
secondly, how, having got you, I rendered
you contented with your fortune; thirdly and
chiefly, by what method l made a day seem to
you as a week; and lastly, you want to ask why
l got rid of you at the end of that length of
time. Well, as you have said, one good turn de-
serves another. / will enlighten YOU"
Lamm coughed and went on: You are aware
that of old the alchemists sought the precious
elixir that would prolong life. the balm of eter-
nal youth. Their efforts were fruitless. Why9
Because they were guided by superstition in
stead of science. / have in truth discovered
that elixir: How? By consulting science instead
of superstition.
What is life9 The life of a man is simply a
AnGpita nf1rnha~ re bo.~Jol 49,
definite space Of time. Time is relative-is
longer or shorter as it seems to us. Time abso-
lutte is beyond our knowledge, and. thereupon,
beyond our care. Now, if by multiplying the
number of a mans experiences within a gwen
length of time. [ make that length of time seem
longer to him, have l not by just so much pro-
longed that mans life2 If compress the expe-
rlences of a week into a single day, have | not
virtually multiplied the life lived in that day by
sevenE Ii correspondingly | make the three
score years and ten allotted to us by Scripture
seem to be seven times as long, have | not
stretched seventy out to 400 years? Time, my
young friend, in my hands is as elastic as a
rubber band.
Now, in respect to yourself. first saw you
some six months ago. At the first glance / said,
there is a splendid subject. You had precisely
the health and the sensitiveness l require. |
knew that if | asked you to submit to be expert
mented upon you would be frightened, and
refuse. Yet | knew that | owed it to science not
to permit so excellent a subject to escape me.
So determined upon possessing you without
your consent.
Il watched my opportunity. You would be
startled to learn how many narrow escapes you
had. AT last my opportunity confronted me.
You were alone in the street on Sunday morning,
June ". L approached you, spoke to you,
caught your eye, and fixed it. From that
moment you were beneath my sway. You fol-
lowed me without resistance to my house.
Then l put you into a trance by means of a
drug. The result was that when you recovered
you had forgotten all that had happened since
the night before. The more recent impressions
upon your brain were simply rubbed out. That
was the function of the drug.
1.-The next thing was to tranquiliZe you. Elk
element on your part would have defeated my
aims. So l dispatched Iospu to you. Iospu has
a few mesmeric faculties of her own. One of