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side. and they were obliged to prop it
with sumo mats. The eyes remained the
Same and in spite Of the hours which
had passed seemed as living, as menace
ing and eloquent as the night before.
They were however, yelled with some
thing vitreous over tho pupils like the
amaurosis of death, yet full of that
anger, of that fright or that fcrocious
malediction which was reproduced in
startling manner in the negatives taken
by Bcrnardot
1.-THE secret of the crime is In that
look, " thought tho police agent. "Those
eyes see; those eyes speak. They tell
what they know; they accuse some one. "
Then while tho professor his asso-
ciatos and his students went on with
the autopsy, exchanging observations
following i'll the mutilatcd body their
researches for the truth, trying to be
very accurate as to the nature of tho
wound the form even Of tho knife with
which it was made, Bernardet softly
approached the examining magistrate,
and in a low tone timidly, respectfully,
he spoke some words, which werc in
sistent, however and pressing, urging
the magistrate to quickly interfere.
"Ah, NJ le Juge, this is the mo-
ment! You who can do everything -
Tho examining magistrate has with
rs absolute power. He does whatever
seems to him best, and he wishes to do
u thing because he wishes to do it. NJ.
Ginory, curious by nature and because
it was his duty, hcsitatod, scratched his
ear, rubbed his nose, bit his lips, listen
ed to the duplicating murmur Of the
police officer, but decided TO speak
just then and continued e z with a
fixed stare at the dead man.
This thought came to him, moreover
insistent and mperious-that he was
there to testify i'll all things i'll favor Of
that truth the discovery of which i'm
posed upon him-and suddenly his sharp
voice interrupted the surgeons work.
"Mcssieurs. docs not the expression
of the open eyes strike YOU"
Yes; they express admirably the
most perfect agony" NJ. NORM replied.
And does it not secm," asked the
tA'tllIHllS magistrate, dS IL tIty WCIV
fixed with that expression on the muir
dercr?"
without doubt. Tho mouth seems
to curse and tho eyes to menace"
and what if the last image sccn-
in fact, that Of the murderer-still re-
mains upon the retina Of the cyes:"
NJ. NORM looked at tho magistrate in
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hooking and the lips and eyes assumed q
| quizzical expression. But Bernardct wa,
| very much surprised whom he heard one
remark. DR.. Erwin raised his head, and
while he seemed to approve Of that
which NJ. Ginory had advanced he said
THAT image must have disappeared
from the rctina some time ago"
"Who knows?" said II. GinOry.
Bernardet experienced profound
emotion. He felt til, this time thu
problem would be officially settled. NJ
Ginory had not feared ridicule when he
spoke, and discussion arose there, il
that dissecting room, i'll the presence Of
the corpse. What had existed only in ;
dream III Bernardot's little study he
came here, in the presence Of the exam
lining magistrate, member Of the in
stitute, and the young students almos
full fiedged doctors, "a question frankly
discussed in all its bearings. And i
was he standing back, he, poor devi
Of police officer, who had urged thi
examining magistrate to question thi
savant.
cat the back of the eyes, " said thu
professor, touching the eyes with hi
scalpel, there il nothing, believe me
1t is elsewhere that you must look TO,
your proof. y
"But"--and NJ. Ginory repeated hi!
"who knows:" what if we try i
this time? VIII it inconvenience you
my dear mastCr:" NJ. Norm made
movement with his lips which mean
"Pcuh !" and his whole countcnance eX
pressed his scorn but l see no incon
vcuience, " At the end Of Il moment h
said i'll Il sharp Tone 1T will be los
time.
"A little more, little less" replied
NJ, Ginory "Tho experiment is wortl
the trouble 70 make it. D."
NJ. Ginory had proved without dOub
that he, like Bernardot, wished to salts
fy his curiosity, and III looking at tn
open eyes of the corpse, although III hi
duties he never allowed himself to b.
influenced by the sentimental or tn
dramatic, yet it seemed to him tina
those eyes urged him to insist-nay
even supplicated him.
Il know, ! know" said NJ. NORM
"what You dream of in your magis
trate's brain is as amusing rs IL tale O
Edgar Poe'S. But to find in those eye
the image of the murdCrcr-cOmo
now, leave that to the inventive geniu
of a Rudyard Kipling, but do not mi
the impossible with our researches il
medical Jurisprudence. Let us not max
romance. Let US make, you the exam
nations and / the dissection -
Tho short time in which the professo
had spoken did not exactly please NJ
Ginory, who now, little through sci
conccit (since he had made the PROPOSE
tom, little through curiosity, decide
that he would not beat retreat. 81
there anything to risk" he asked
"And it might be one chance i'll
thousand.
But there is no chance" quickl
answered NJ. Norm, "none, none, "
Then, rolcntins little, he cntere
the discussion, explaining why he ha
no faith.
cit is not I, NJ. Ginory, who will dc
, ny the possibility Of such II result. Blu
it would be miraculous. Do you bolicv