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

The police officer did not follow the
autopsical operations closely He was
eager to know; he was impatient for the
moment when, having taken the pic
ture, he might develop the negatives
and study them to see if he could dis.
cover anything, could decipher any
image. He had used photography in the
service of anthropometry; he had taken
the pictures at the morgue with his ko-
dak, and now, at home in his little
room, which he was able to darken COM
pletely, he was developing his plates.
Nine. Bernardet and the children
were much struck with the expression
| of his face. 1t was not troubled, but pre-
occupied and as if he were completely
absorbed. He twas very quiet, eating
very little, and seemed thoughtful. His
wife asked him, cart thou ill?'' He re-
sponded, "No, think not" And his
little girls said to each other in low
tones Papa is ON trail. F"
He was in truth. The hunting dog
smelled the scent. The pictures which
he had taken of the retina and had de-
veloped showed result sufficiently
clear for Bernardet to feel confident
enough TO tell his chief that he dis
tinctly saw a visage, the face of man,
confused, no doubt, but clear enough to
recognize not only type, cut distinct
type. AS from the depths of a cloud, in
sort of white hala. a human face ap-
peared whose features could be distinct
ly seen with magnifying glass-the
face of man with a pointed black
beard, the forehead little bald, and
blackish spots which indicated the eyes.
1t was only a phantom evidently, and
the photographer at the prefecture
seemed more moved than Bernardet by
the proofs obtained. Clearer than in
spirit photographs, which so many cred
ulous people believe in, the image
showed plainly, and in studying it one
could distinctly follow the contours. A
specter, perhaps, but the specter Of
man who was still young and resem-
bled, with his pointed beard, some
trooper of the sixteenth century, phan-
tom of some Seigneur Clouet
"For example," said the official pho
tographer, eff one could discover muir
derer by photographing dead mans
eyes, this would be miraculous. 1t is
incredibler'
"Not more Incredible" Bernardet
replied, ethan what the papers publish.
Edison is experimenting on making the
blind see by using the Roentgen rays.
There is miracle.
Then Bernardet took his proofs to M.
Ginory. The police officer felt that the
magistrate, the sovereign power in
criminal researches, ought, above every
thing, to collaborate with him, to con-
sent to these experiments which SO
many others had declared useless and
absurd. The taste for researches, which
was with M. Ginory a matter of tenn
permanent as well as duty to his pro-
fession, was fortunately keen ON this
scent. Criminals call in their argot the
judges "the priers." Curiosity in this
man was com bined with knowledge Of
profound researches.
When Bernardet spread out on M.
Ginory's desk the four photographs
which he had brought with him, the
first remark which the examining mag
istrate made was, "But see nothing
cloud, a mist and then after?" Ber-
nardet drew a magnifying glass from
his pocket and pointed out, as he would
have explained an enigmatical design,
the hneaments, moving his finger over
the contour of the face which his nail
outlined, that human face which he had
seen and studied in his little room in
the passage of the Elysee des Beaux
Arts. He made him see-after some mo-
ments of minute examination-he made
him see that face. "It is true-there is
an image there" exclaimed M. Ginory.
He added: sis it plain enough for me
to see it so that I can from it imagine a
living being? / see the form, OWNED
it at first, saw it clearly defined after
ward. At first it seemed very vague,
but find it sufficiently we'll defined so
that can see each feature, but without
any special character. Oh" continued
M. Ginory excitedly. rubbing his plump
little hands, eff it was only possible,
if it was only possiblel What mar
velp'
"It is possible, M. le Juge. Have
faith" Bernardet replied. 81 swear 30
you that it is possible. This enthuM-
asm gained over the examining magis-
trate. Bernardet had found fellow
sympathizer in his fantastic ideas. M.
Ginory was now-if only to try the ex-
periment-resolved to direct tho i"-as-
tigation ON this plan. He was anxious
to first show the proofs to those who
would be apt to recognize in them
person whom they might have once seen
in the flesh. "To Moniche first and then
to his wife," said Bernardet.
"Who IL Moniche?" 81I
"Tne concierge in the Boulevard de
Clichy."
Ordered TO come to the court, M. and
Nine Moniche were, overjoyed. They
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