The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-19

spered NJ. Norm.
;1-..age which the old Danes eye held Of
the VOLTS nose and teeth, and-who
knowss-perhaps it is possible to ask of
dead mans eye the secret of what it
saw when living"
This was put in more scientific terms
by the young Danish doctor, the SUBJ
stance of what Bernardet believed pos
sible. The young man had listened with
the attractive sympathy which is dis
played when aty thing novel is explain
ed Rigid upon the marble slab, the
victim seemed to wait for the result of
the discussion, deaf to all the confused
sounds about him, his eye fixed upon
the infinite, upon the unknowable
which he now knew.
1t was, however, this insensible body
which had caused the discussion of
what was an enigma to savants. What
was the secret of his end, the last word
Of his agony? Who made that wound
which had ended his life? And, like a
statue lying on its stone couch, the
murdered man seemed to wait. What
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wished to know he still knew perhaps.
This doubt alone, rooted deep in M.
Ginory's mind, was enough to urge him
to have the experiment tried, and ex-
cusing himself for his infatuation he
begged M. NORM to grant permission
to try the experiment, which some of
the doctors had thought would be sue
cessful.
1--WE shall be relieved even if we do
not succeed, and we can but add our
defeat to the others"
M. Morin's face still bore its skeptic-
al smile. But, after all, the examining
magistrate was master Of the situation,
and since young DIR. Erwin brought the
result of the Denmark experiments
contribution new in these researches
to add weight to the matter the pro-
fessor requested that he should not be
asked to lend himself to an experiment
which he declared in advance would be
a perfectly useless one.
There was a Photographic apparatus
at the morgue, as at the prefecture.
used for anthropometry. Bernardet,
moreover, had his kk1ak in his hand.
One could photograph the retina as
soon as the membrane was separated
from the eye by the autopsy and when,
like the wing of a butterfly, it had been
fastened to piece of cork. And, while
Bernardet was accustomed to all the
horrors of crime, yet he felt his heart
beat almost to suffocation during this
operation.
He noticed that M. Ginory became
very pale and that he bit his lips, cast
ing occasional plying glances toward
the dead man. On the contrary, the
young men bent over the body and
studied it with the admiration and Joy
of treasure seekers digging in a mine.
Each human fiber seemed to reveal to
them some new truth. They were like
jewelers. before casket full of gems,
and what they studied, weighed, exam
ined, was human corpse and those
eyes, living, terrible, accusing, when
they were removed, leaving behind them
two empty orbits. The professor sudden
ly spoke with marvellous eloquence,
flowing and picturesque, as If he were
speaking of works of art. And 1t was,
In truth, work of art this wonderful
mechanism which he explained to his
students, who listened eagerly to each
word. 1t was work of art, this eye,
with its sclerotic its transparent cornea,
its aqueous and vitreous humor, its
crystalline lens and the retina, like q
Photographic plate in that black cham
Der in which the luminous rays reflect,
reversed, the objects seen. And M.
NORM, holding between his fingers the
object which he was demonstrating
smoke Of the membrane formed Of fiber,