The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-10-23
Post Mortem.
when DR.. Lebrun hypnotized you In
Paris you were suffering in the eyes and
forehead alone?"

PagIS you were suffering IN the eyes anc
forehead alone?'
Yes"
And now the pain has spread all owe,
the face. Then it was only the FIRST
branch OF the nerve, now the superior
and inferior maxiiiaries are involved as
well
.'Of course, the pain is worse now.
said the girl. But I don't believe thai
would prevent me from going under
DR.. 1ebrun said I was particularly
good subject"
EXCISE me- said the doctor. ''but
that is not the point. If decide TO hyp-
notize you, ii will be done; you would
fail asleep, even if you were being burn
ed on q fire at the time. But what /
want you to see is. that hypnotism is
doing you no real good. You are worse
now than YOU were when you began l.
over in Paris. Hypnotism Is not what
you want at all; it gives you tie
! tempoy airy relief. and nothing more. The
| neuralgia from which you're suffering
wants different kind of treatment al
together"
The girl began TO cry. 20, don't say
you won't do 1t. I'm in such awful tor
ture. I've had no sleep. l shall Kill
myself if this goes on. Won't you give
me morphia or anything, them
81 am going to hypnotic you this time.
but I am not going on hypnotizing you
week after week, as DR.. Lebrun seems
to have done. You viii have to follow
my advice or I shall decline to have any
thing to do with you. Do you see? But
we can speak of that afterward. Take
off your hat, please
The outer blind was now drawn up,
and the sun streamed into the room. The
doctor pushed low chair into the patch
| of sunlight.
"Sit down here" he said.
He had expressed himself with great
confidence. for an operator is not like
/ ~ to succeed who begins by suggesting
/ to the subject the possibility of failure;
! but, as a matter of fact he was sur
! prised at the rapidity with which the girl
/ passed into the deep state of hyp-
| nosis.%
Four days later he was speaking to
/ Professor Wynde. 'Pd a patient of
! Lebrun's the other day." he said. II
/ wanted to ask you about her" He de-
/ what he had suggested while she was
I hypnotized. Now" he said, what ado
you make of it?"
It's interesting said the professor,
because the point. so far as I know,
has not been raised before. But there's
nothing in it. You put the girl in deep
state Of hypnosis; you satisfy yourself
| that stimulation IS impossible. The first
| is, that on waking she will take a book
from one table and put it down on an
other; on waking she does it. The Sec
Ond is that she will come back the fol-
lowing day, but decline to come in, maxi
ing some excuse. That also comes off
all right. The third is that she will re-
turn week Later, and when the clock
on the mantlepiece is precisely at 8
o'clock she will sit down in the chair
where she sat before when you hypno-
tized her, but, in the meantime, she
falls off her bicycle, and heavy troll
ley pulps her head. She Is dead; there
fore she will not come. I needn't re-
mind you that the study of hypnotism Is
not study of the abnormal, but of the
normal. She would come If the asso-
citation of mind and matter in her case
still continued. If you wait on Sat-
urday afternoon in the hope of getting
something spookish, you will waste your
time, and, in my opinion, be acting In
a way that is superstitious and unscien-
On that Saturday afternoon the doc
tor drew up the sun blinds and placed
the chair in the patch of sunlight Then
he arranged the camera in position and
the simple apparatus that would expose
the plate automatically precisely at 3
o'clock. He closed and fastened the win
dows, went out and locked the door be-
hind him. He wandered about in Hyde
Park until a quarter past and then
returned. He felt feeling of nervous
ness when he unlocked the door again.
a momentary wonder as to what he
would find in the roon1-a wonder for
which he had some contempt for himself.
The room was precisely as he had left
1t, except that the plate had been ex
posed. He took ii out and drove off
with it to the chemist who generally did
the development of his photographs for
him.
The rest Of the day seemed intermina-
bly, long. But 1t was not till after dinner
that he went back to the chemists.
We'll" he asked, did you get any
thing out of it?"
20, yes, SIR" said the chemist, cheer
fully. 1.-THE lower part of the plate is
spoiled. and the rest has rather a funny
look. Still. you can tell whom it's meant
for. TIL give you a rough print"
The doctor drew the print from the en-
velope. AS the chemist had said, there
was nothing distinguishable on the lower
part of the picture The rest gave the
a person sitting in ii. The background,
showing a bit of the window, was clear
and distinct. The doctor stared in ST.
lence.
Doesn't latter you," said the chem
list.
He made some commonplace answer
and went back home. taking the photo
graph with him. He examined it again
under the bright light IN his study. IN
questionably 1t was a photograph of him
self. He could think of no possible ex-
PLANTATION. Nor at first could he make
out what there was so queer and grue-
some about It. Then it flashed across
him. The eyes in the photograph were
not male eyes; they were the eyes of
a girl-a girl whom he remembered
Barry Pain.