Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-08-25

put my name in the papers, will thew
l showed her the letter, and she let me
see some specimens of her handwriting.
ihere was no sort of similarity between
them. She's well meaning old soul as
ever lived, and I'm sorry disturbed her
ihat.s all But it's terribly exasperat-
| ing"
But, Julian, DEAR, pleaded his sis
ter, there must be some mistake. There
must be some other Mrs. Hapgood.
Oh, without u doubt, dozens of Mrs.
Agatha q. Hapgoods! Why, there isn't
Hapgood family in Somerset and never
has been, and the old lady assures me
that there isn't another Agatha G.. to
her knowledge in existence.
AT any rate" Ellen insisted, 1--WE
nave learned one thing beyond doubt.
we know the poor girls name. In good
tme we shall know everything Annette
Will get well, am sure of it,
But Maxey did not want to be Cum
forted. He looked unutterable disgust
and changed the subject.
"You mentioned that you had been
making experiments Lamar"
Yes, " assentcd the physician, I'VE
nave discovered something. First, our
patient has q most remarkable power of
vlsualization, and next she is very sus
ceptlble to the influence of music She
was SO excited by Miss Maxey's fine sing
ing this afternoon that she tainted. -
The deuce" cried Maxey, beginning
10 brighten up at once. Either don't
understand the thing the least in the
world, or this means very good news. -
Possibly
Possibly! There you go again. You
use that evasive word to avoid commit
Ting yourself on any subject Just as soon
as anybody asks you direct question.
Be candid, Lamar. Doesn't this mean
that there 10 bare chance of singing
her back to her senses again?"
10 the question put in that limited
and cautious way would answer YES.
Maxey became very much excited.
why not begin now at once and sing
till she gets well?" he cried
No, no." said the sister "That
won't do. Both doctors have forbidden
any more music at present and for to-
night-absolute quiet -
That is another medical humbug
which they think of when they haven't
any nastiness at hand to dose with, -
muttered MaXey. Absolute quiet!
Stuff! And what's that other thing with
the long name you say she's subject top
"Visualization? 1t means the power
OF retaining the image of an object after
IT has disappeared from the actual field
Of sight SO wildly that its exact form is
still seen. We all have it in greater
or less degree. In her it is exceedingly
strong. Some people who have the fac
uity i'll a marked degree can close their
eyes and call up at will the face of an
absent friend with such distinctness that
it is quite like looking at him. AT least
l have been told SO. must say my own
impressions are very faint
Now you are getting into my field"
said Maxey, who was very much inter-
ested. '"That is faculty possessed by
sope of our best portrait painters, no
tably Sir Joshua Reynolds. 1 never
heard it called by that name, but it is
obvious that the man who can keep q
subject before his mental vision con-
stantly, other things being equal, will
make the best picture.
why, went into the studio of a
friend of mine the other day, and was
struck at once by splendid portrait in
oils he had just completed. How many
sittings did you have for that? l asked
him. If tell you and you should re-
peat it to anybody, / might not get my
price for the picture, he said. There
We're really about 90 sittings, but 10 of
them We're shams. After the first two I
never did any work when the subject
was before me- Don't you see this is
just a case III point? At the first he had
sketched the outline of the face, and, as
he told me, whenever he wanted to sit
down and work ut it he had only to re-
call the PERSONS face to his mind, and
he can really do his best work from this
mental copy alone by himself. The pres
ence of the real face abstracts his atten-
ton and makes him nervous. He has the
power Well, if it is a mental faculty
and our girl gets we'll, she is going 20
remember all about this time and these
events since we found her in series of
pictures, take it
Lamar laughed. Something after the
style of a panorama, suppose? No,
Maxey, you reason too loosely. You
don't weigh your own words. Remem-
Der all about It. Do you know what it is
to remember? 1t is to recall something
that we have once known. This poor
girl knows nothing of what is transpir-
ing around her and has not since the
moment when she lost her senses on the
rocks ut the sea road. What never is
known cannot by any possibility be re-
membered. No. Whatever may be the
future Of the patient, this present time
will always be blank to her.
DIR. Lamar spoke very positively.
"Wcll," sighed Maxey, IF she but
RECEIVERS enough to explain who she is
and how she came where we found her,
! shall feel reasonably satisfied. Still I
can't see what your INSTALLATION
amounts to if she cannot carry picture
which she secs now into the future,
whatever be her condition.