The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-03

| entyne tomorrow. al which / shall attend.
l Would you like to Gomez I am anxious 10
hear what the verdict will be.
/ I consented to be present. and, with
I that understanding. We parted
The scene Of the autopsy was dreary
! and depressing. A small. bare room; half
I a dozen Indifferent men; a policeman at
/ the door, and in front Of the window &
/ table. on which was extended figure
swathed in a white cloth. This cloth was
/ presently unwrapped. exposing 10 our
| view the body of poor little Turkie. The
1 face looked natural. and ] should have
/ supposed. under other Circumstances. that
the man was merely asleep. The body
was well nourished and the skin remark
/ ably white and clear
After some general conversation among
| the professional gentlemen present, IN
the course Of which the peculiar circum-
stances attending the death were dis
cussed. IT was decided 20 examine the
| heart Of the deceased. and Or. Dwight was
requested TO perform the operation. He
approached the table. took a case of in
strumepts out Of his pocket and opened il.
I saw him select something bright and
sharp. and bend over the body; and then
| I became suddenly coDvinced that I did
not care to assist at an autopsy. and
started TO leave the room. 7 was feeling
acuteiy uncomfortable. and I dare say
looked so. for l noticed that one Of the
aAAN-ANAniiNH EAdAtfA at me Win n rf@ mn
cant grin.
had my hand on the door knob. and
was Just turning it, when a quick eNcla-
nation from behind arrested me. II was
followed by a confused chorus of voices.
and a general gathering together of every
one present round the table. ] turned.
but could see nothing but the backs Of
the company, as they bent eagerly over
the body. What had happened? Had poor
Turkie's interior revealed some unexpected
monstrosity2 As I stood hesitatins
whether to go or stay the babel of voices
suddenly became hushed. and out of The
silence emerged a thin, falsetto groan,
like the last remonstrance of an exhaust
ed bagpipe; followed by these words,
pronounced in a tone Of feeble but indg-
nant complaint: Take that razor away,
doctor! What the deuce have YOU done
with my clothes2"
Such were the words: and the voice was
the unmistakable voice of Turkentyne.
He was not dead after all. / had no dis
tinct recollection of the course of events
af-er that, until an hour or two later
Dwight, Turkentyne. and were together
in Turkentyne's rooms with lunch be
fore US. For man who had so lately
returned from the other world, Turken-
tyne was looking pretty well. but he had
a bad scare, and his own voice vibrated
and broke occasionally. a he propounded
to US, in interrupted sentences. the sur
prising story of his experiences during the
memorable month just passed. The doc
tor listened oomplacently, for as the tale
unfolded itself. It substantially confirmed
the diagnosis at which he had darkly
limited in his talk at me club.
1T was that fellow Blake that suggested
it, said Turkentyne. That is, he gave me
the idea, and Tom and I afterward worked
1t out between US. The principle of the
thing is this. that when a fellow is hyp-
h. -. e. IN .
the other fellow who hypnotized him feels
and acts just like him. though there's
nothing real in it. you understand-only
he believes there is. Well, as soon as we
settled on the principle, we set to work
to experiment In the first place Tom
hypnotlzed me; il was little difficult at
first, but after a while we got the hang
of it. and he could send me off with
wave of his hand Then we got down to
business. | got a couple of quarts OF
champagne, and he and | shut ourselves
up in my room, and he hypnotized me-
only very lightly, YOU know, so that no
body would have known that l wasn't
in my normal state, and then he drank
the wine. Before he had finished the first
bottle. was just feeling as jolly as a grig,
and by the time they were both gone I
was Just about right Wen, that exper-
iment settled the question whether the
thing could be done, and then we made
OuI UdI sam was 10 pay lOln SO H1UEH
a week, and ne was to use the money IN
drinking all the wine and liquor he want
ed. He was to begin at q certain hour
each day, and not get too fun until after
dinner; and it was stipulated that he
was not to get dead drunk a all, unless
by special arrangement with me. We
started in on that basis. but the morning
after his first spree l woke up feeling like
| the duce, for the hypnotic current had not
! been switched off, so to speak and of
course, 1 was undergoing the same after
| effects that he was. 1 went over and had
a conference with him, and we fixed it up
| easily. When he hypnotized me after that,
he gave me an order to wake up from the
| trance at a certain hour, say, about at
| / or o'clock in the morning. so that /
| should come out the next day without a
| coated tongue or a headache. As 1 was
| putting up the money for the job, you
see, 1t was no more than fair that he
should have all the bad hours to himself.
| From that time on we got along fanously.
| The only awkward part of it was that
sometimes the fellows wondered
| how 1 managed to get along
without drinking anything. but
! that didn't amount to much. and l was
| generally able to bluff them by pretending
that cider was champagne, and water
| gin, and ginger ale whisky or brandy;
| and as a general rule, they didn't notice
what l was drinking at all, OF course
/ had to depend on Tom to keep his end
up, and not to overdo it, and he did first
| rate until the last-poor old fellow!
| by the way. how do you account for
! the catastrophe ?" I asked:
well. there's only one explanation of
/ that. You see. we had got the hypnotic
ing business down so fine that Tom could
send me off just by an act of will. with
| out the necessity of our being actually
together at all. All he had to do was
to say at a certain hour, Go to sleep,
Turke and don't wake up till such and
such an hour Then, wherever I was,
off I'd go But as luck would have it. he
must have forgotten day before yester-
/ day to mention the waking up hour and,
| afterward, when he got the horrors, of
course, he was too busy with that to
remember anything So I had to 20 in
for the whole thing. l suspected what
was the matter but I couldn't wake my
self up. And when he died. suppose I
died too. though if l did, / don't see how
I ged to come alive again. BY
/ George! it's lucky did come alive before
it was too late, or I might have been
| buried He broke off and became very
pale,
1T was the autopsy that brought YOU