The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-01

suggested that the murderer 5 imag CINE the laa
object seen, is imprinted on the retina OF tn
murdered mans eye. vi and VII-Bernarde
experiments on the retina and is seized with
conviction.
IcoNTINUED.J e.
Suddenly the play of lights made
him disappear from the eyes of the spec
tators and they saw, thanks TO retiec-
lions made by mirrors, only skeleton.
1t was the world of specters and the
secret of the tombs revealed TO the
crowd by kind of scientific magic Ian
tern.
Bernardet did not desire TO wait Ion.
ger to strike his blow-tbis was the ex
act moment to do it, the psychological
moment
The eager look of the man in the
sombrero revealed deep trouble. There
was in this look something more than
the curiosity excited by novel specta-
Gle. The muscles of his pale face witch
ed as with physical suffering In his
eyes Bernardet read an internal agony
"Ahp' thought the police officer
1.-THE living eye is book which one can
read as we'll as dead man s eye 4"
Upon the stage the play of lights was
rendering even more sinister the figu-
rant who was giving to this morbidly
curious crowd the comedy of death. One
would have now thought it was one of
those atrocious paintings made in the
studios of certain Spanish painters in
the putridero of Wales Leal The
flesh, by a remarkable scientific combi-
nation Of lights, was made to seem as if
falling off and presented the horrible
appearance of a corpse in state of de-
composition. The lugubrious vision
made very visible shudder pass over
the audience. Then Bernardet, drawing
himself up to his full height so as to get
good view of the face of this man so
much taller and approaching as near to
him as possible-in fact, so that his ell
bow and upper arm touched the young
man 's-slowly, deliberately dropped one
by one these words:
"That is about how NJ. Revere ought
to be now
And suddenly the young mans face
expressed a sensation of fright, as one
sees in the face of a pedestrian who sud-
denly finds that he is about to step upon
a viper.
''Or how he will be soon, added the
little man, with an amiable smile
Bernardet dissimulated under this ami
ability and intense joy. Holding his
arm and elbow in an apparently careless
manner close to his neighbor as he pro-
nounced Rovere's name, Bernardet felt
his neighbours whole body tremble
and give very perceptible start Why
had he been SO quickly moved by
an unknown name if it had not recalled
to his mind some frightful thought?
The man might, of course, know, as the
public did, all the details of the crime
but with his strong, energetic face, his
resolute look, he did not appear like a
person who would be troubled by the
recital of a murder the description of a
bloody ARRAY or even by the frightful
scene which had just passed before his
eyes in the hall.
"A man Of that stamp is not chicken
hearted, - thought Bernardet. ono.
no." Hearing those words evoked the
AA4Aet6h ~ AIb h'tNNA HAIL. INONtIt. lut
man was not able to master his violent
emotion, and lac trembIed as if under
an electrical discharge. The shudder
had been violent, of short duration.
however, as if he had mastered his
emotion by his strong will. In his III.
voluntary movement he had displayed
tragic elOquence. Bernardet had seen in
the look in the gesture, in the move
ment Of the mans head, something of
trouble, Of doubt of terror, as in flash
Of lightning in the darkness of night
one sees the bottom Of pool.
Bernardet smilingly said to him:
This sight Is not "a gay one.
mo, the man answered, and he al
50 attempted to smile.
He looked back TO the stage, where
the somber play went ON.
THAT poor RovereP' Bernardet said.
The other man now looked at Ber-
nardet as if to read his thoughts and to
learn what Specification the repetition
Of the same name had. Bernardet sus-
tanned with naive look this mute in
terrogation. He allowed nothing of his
thoughts to be seen in the clear, child
like depths of his eyes. He had the air
Of good man, frightened by terrible
murder, and who spoke of the late vic
tim as if he feared for himself. He
waited, hoping that the man would
speak.
In some Of Bernardet's readings he
had come across the magic rule applica-
BILE to love-"Never go; wait for the
other to come" (Ne ire, fac venire)--
applicable also to hate, to that duel Of
magnetism between the hunted man
and the police spy, and Bernardet wait
ed for the other to come"
Brusquely. after q silence, while on
the little stage the Transformation was
still going on, the man asked in . dry
tone: 80 .'fs8trsl ta.t
why do you speak TO me of N. Ro-
verer'