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

: light had struck full ON the eyes, an,
, they spoke Bernardet showed the proof
, to M. Ginory. They examined then
with magnifying glass, but the,
} showed only the emotion, the agony
the anger, of that last moment. Der
nardet hoped to convince nj. Ginor,
that Bourion's experiment was not
failure
Eleven o'clock was the hour named
for the autopsy Twenty minutes befor,
Bernardet was at the morgue. He walk
ed restlessly about outside among the
spectators Some were women, youne
girls. students and children who were
lowering about the place hoping thai
some chance would permit them to sat
isfy their morbid curiosity and to enter
and gaze on those slabs whereon lay
swollen, livid, disfigured-the bodies.
Never perhaps in his life had the
police officer been so strongly moved
with desire to succeed. He brought to
his tragic task all the ardor of an apos.
tie. 1t was not the idea of success, the re-
nown or the possibility of advancement
which urged him ON. 1t was the JOY,
the glory, of aiding progress, of attach
ing his name to new discovery. He
worked for art and the love Of art. AS
| he wandered about his sole thought was
of his desire to test Dr. Bourion's ex.
| pertinent, of the realization of his
dream. "Ah, if M. Ginory will only
permit itp' he thought
AS he formulated that hope in his
mind he saw NJ. Ginory descend from
the facre. He hurried up to him and
saluted him respectfully. Seeing Ber-
nardet so moved and the first one on
the spot, he could not repress smile.
see You are still enthused.
Il have thought of nothing else all
night, M. Ginory."
well, but" said NJ. Ginory in a
tone which seemed to Bernardet to
imply hope, "no idea must be rejected,
and do not see why we should not try
the experiment / have reflected upon
1T. Where is the unsuitableness?''
"Ah, M. le Juge," cried the agent
IF you permit it, who knows but
we may revolutionize medical jurispru-
dence?'
"Revolutionize, revolutionize he
cried. Would the examining magistrate
yet find it an idiotic idea?
M. Ginory passed around the build
ing and entered by small door OPEN
ing on the Seine. The registrar follow
ed him, and behind him came the DO
lice agent. Bernardet wished to wait
until the doctors delegated to perform
the autopsy should arrive, and the head
keeper of the morgue advised him to
possess himself with patience and while
he was waiting to look around and see
the latest cadavers which had been
brought there
I'VE have had in eight days larger
number of women than men, which is
rare, and these women were nearly all
habitues of the public balls and race
tracks I"
And how can you tell that?''
Because they have pretty feet"
Professor NORM arrived with con-
frere, a young Pasteurian doctor, with
a singular mind, broad and receptive,
and who passed among his companions
for man fond of chimeras, little re-
sNNAHSt hO"ONCAt duu klNCh ONcT IO MAX
ing experiments and to vague dreams.
M. NORM saluted M. Ginory and pre-
sented to him the young doctor, Erwin
by name, and said to the magistrate
that the honse students had probably
begun the autopsy to gain time.
The body, stripped of its clothing, lay
upon the dissecting table. and three
young men in velvet skullcaps, with
aprons tied about their waists, were
standing about the corpse. They had al
ready begun the autopsy. The mortal
wound looked redder than ever in the
whiteness of the naked body.
Bernardet glided into the room, try
ing to keep out of sight, listening and
looking, and above everything not los
ing sight of M. Ginory's face-a face in
which the look was keen, penetrating,
sharp as knife, as he bent over the
pale face of the murdered man, regard.
ing 1t as searchingly as the surgeons
scalpels were searching the wound and |
the flesh. Among those men in their |
black clothes, some with barred heads in |
order to work better, others with hats
ON, the stretched out corpse seemed like |
wax figure upon marble slab. Ber-
nardet thought Of those images which |
he had seen copied from Rem brandt's |
pictures-the poet with the anatomical |
pinchers and the shambles. The surgeons
bent ov' the body, their hands busy |
and their scissors cutting the muscles. |
That wound, which had let out his life. |
that large wound, like monstrous and
grimacing mouth, they enlarged still
more. The head oscillated from side TO
side, and they were obliged to prop 1t
with some mats The eyes remained the +
same and in spite Of the hours which
had passed seemed as living, as menao.
ing and eloquent as the night before. |
They were, however, yelled with some
thing vitreous over the pupils, like the
amaurosis of death, yet full of that
anasr OF that fright or that ferocious