The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-27

Wa . faint vhisper. which wae b roar
Of che rains breaking over the Hvcr. One
Of The men hsard u got out OF his chair.
ii,ssnsd' md sasd' naturally snoosn'
Then the Biastoderm turned in his
place and said: "Whyf ] assure you It's
only the result Of perfectly natural
-atmospheric phenomena OF the simplest
kind. Why you should, therefore. return
thanks to q being who never did exist
"~Blastoderm,S Qrunted the man In the
next chair. "dy up and throw me over
the Pioneer. We know all about your fiR-
ments." The Biastoderm reached out 10
the table, took up one paper and jumped
AZ II something had stung him. Then he
"As / was saying,' he went on slowly
and with an effort-"due 10 perfectly nat
ural causes-perfectiy natural causes. 1
can"
Ali! B~lastoderm, you've given me the
Calcutta Mercaatiie Advertiser"
The dust got up in little whorls, while
the tree-tops rocked and the kites whis-
tied. But no one was looking at the COM
ing of the rains. We were all staring at
the Blastoderm who had risen from his
chair and was fighting with his speech.
Then he said, still more slowly:
Perfectly ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES shut
tlecock-alone."
.Blastoderm's drunk" said one man.
But the Blastoderm was not drunk. He
began motioninR with his hands In the
half light as the lotnd closed overhead.
Then-with q scream:
"What Is il? Can't-reserve-attaina-
Observation-Disclosures"
But his speech seemed TO freeze in him,
and, Just as the lightning q two tongues
that cut the whole sky in three pieces and
the rain fell in quivering sheets, the Bias
toderm was struck dumb. He stood paw
ing and champing like n hard held horse,
and his eyes were full OF terror.
The doctor came over IN three minutes,
and heard the story. ats aphasia," he
said. "Take him to his room. knew
the smash would come" We carried the
B~lastoderm across in the pouring rain To
his quarters, n the doctor gave him
bromide of potassium to make him sleep.
Then the doctor came back to us and
told us that aphasia was like all the ar
rears of "Punjab Head" falling in a
lump; and that only nee before-in the
case Of a sepoy-had he met with so com
plete q case. / myself have seen mild
aphasia in an man., but this
sudden dumbness was uncanny-though,
as the B~lastoderm himself might have
said, due to perfectly natural causes"
"He'n have to take leave after this
said the doctor. "He won't be fit for
work for another three months. No; IL
isn't INSANITY OF aHytntnR ike IL. Its Oily
complete loss of control over the speech
and memory. l fancy il will keep the
Blastoderm quiet, though"
Two days later the BIastoderm found
his tongue again. The first question he
asked was: "What was itY" The doctor
enlightened him "But l can't under.
stand it!n said the Blastoderm; I'm
quite sane; but | can't be sure of my mind,
il seems-my own memory-can IL"
"Go up into the Hills for three months
and don't think about it," said the doctor
but | amt understand IT," repeated
the Blastoderm. ut was my own mind
and memory"
~ can't help it," said the doctor
"there are n good many th ngs you ant
understand; and, by the time you have
put in my length of service, you'll know
exactly how much a man dare call his
own i'm this world"
The stroke cowed the Blastoderm. He
could not understand il. He went into the
Hills i'm ear and trembling, wondering
whether he would be permitted TO reach
the end of any sentence he began.
This gave him n wholesome feeling of
that he had been overworking him
self, failed 10 satisfy him. Something had
wiped his lips of speech, as a mother
wipes the milky lips OF her child, and ht
was afraid-horribly afraid.
So the club had rest when he returned
and IL ever you come across Aurelian Nc.
Goggin laying down the law on things
human-he doesn't seem to know as much
as he used TO about things divine-pul
your foreflnger on your lip for q moment
and see what happens.
Don't blame me IL he throws q glass a
your head!-Rudyard kipting.