Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-01-12

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THCy t0lkcd the matter orer.
those tragic, living eyes, retained their
terrible, accusing expression which the
supreme agony had left III them. Tho
light had struck full ON the eyes, and
they spoke Bcrnardct showed the proofs
10 NJ Ginory They examined them
with u magnifying glass, but they
showed only the emotion, the agony,
the anger, Of that last moment. Ber
nardct hoped to convince VI. GinOry
that Bourion's experiment was not IL
failure.
Eleven O'Clock was tho hour named
for the autopsy Twenty minutes before
BCrnardut was at the mOrguc. He walk
cd rc>tlessly about outside among the
spectators. Some were women, young
girls, students and children who were
lowering about the place hoping that
some chance would permit them to sat
isty their morbid curiosity and to enter
ond gaze Oh those slabs wheroOn lay
swollen, livid, distigured-tho bodies.
Never perhaps i'll his life had t @
police officer been so strongly moved
with Il desire to succeed. He brought to
his tragic task all tho urdor 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. Bourbon ex-
pertinent, Of the realization Of his
dream. "Ah, if NJ. Ginory will only
permit itr' he thought.
AS he formulated that hope in his
mind be saw NJ. Ginory descend from
the facrc He hurried up to him and
saluted him respectfully. Seeing Ber-
nardct so moved and tho first one on
the spot, he could not repress Il smile.
- see you are still enthuscd. 5"
II have thought of nothing else all
night, NJ Ginory,"
well, but" said NJ Ginory in a
tone which seemed to Bernardct to
imply hope, mo idea must be rejected,
and l do not see why we should not try
the experiment. have reflected upon
it. Where = the unsuitableness?'
"Ah, N. lie Juge," cried the agent,
"if you permit it, who knows but
We may reyolutionize medical jurispru-
dorce:"
Reyoluticnize, reyolutionize" he
cried Would the examining magistrate
yet find it au idiotic idea:
NJ, Ginory passed around the build
ing ana entered by small door open
ing On the Seine. The registrar follow.
! cd him, and behind him came the po-
lice agent Bunurdet wished to wait
until the doctors delegated to perform
! the autopsy should arrive, and the head
| keeper Of the morgue advised him &c
possess himself with patience and while
he was waiting to look around and sec
the latest cadavers which had been
brought there
1--WE have had in eight days a large,
number of women than men, which is
rare, and these women were nearly al.
habituos of the public balls and race
tracks "
"And how can you tell that?"
because they have pretty feet.
Professor NORM arrived with a con
frere, a young Pasteurian doctor, with
IL singular mind, broad and receptive
and who passed among his companions
for man fond of chimeras, little re
firing, however, and given over to max
ing experiments and to vague dreams
NJ. NORM saluted Nj. Ginory and pre-
scnted to him the young doctor, ErwiI
By name, and said to the magistrate
that the house students had probably
begun the autopsy to gain time.
The body, stripped OF its clothing, Ia,
upon the dissecting table, and three
young men in velvet skullcaps, will
aprons tied about their waists, wor
standing about the corpse They had al
ready begun the autopsy The morta
wound looked rcddor than ever i'll tn
whiteness of the naked body.
Bcnardet glidcd into the room, try
ing to keep out of sight, listening anC
looking, and above everything not los
ing sight Of Nj. Ginory 5 tace--a face il
which the look was keen, penetrating
sharp as a knife, as ne bent over tn
pale face of the murdered man, regard
ing it as soarchingly as tho surgeons
scalpcls were searching the wound am
the flesh Among those men III thci
black clothes, somo with barred heads il
order to work better, others with hat
ON, the stretched ont corpse seemed Xix
IL wax figure upon marble slab. Der
nardet thought of those images whicl
he had seen copied from Rembrandt
picturos-tho poet with the anatomica
pinclorS and the sh0mbles. The surgeon
bent over the body, their hands bus
and their scissors cutting the muscles
That wound, which had let out his lite
that large wound like monstrous an
grimacing mouth, they enlarged sti.
more, Tho head oscillatcd from side