The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-05-02
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HE is not bad-looking" l returned
''Not according TO Western ideas Of
beauty" replied Markham. But that
quality you admire, that evidence Of
force, power. is most detestable to me-"
do you wish Fusa to marry at allT'
Certainly, but not with such a brute
as Jarbraw will grow to be-as any
man absorbed in mechanical pursuits
is sure to become. l will save her at
any cost from the degradation she
meditates. Why could she not have
attracted a man of whom | could ap-
proven"
l thought he looked at me meaning
ly, but took no notice of it.
II intend to take away her life. Do
not shrink. She will live again. shall
merely what you call hypnotic her for
awhile" He rose to his feet, moving
toward the door. Come, | wish you
to witness my act. You understand my
motives, whether you admit their just
ness or not"
We passed to his daughters chamber.
Fusa was reclining upon the bed. Her
father poured some liquid into a cup
and handed it to her.
Drink, sleep, and wake after a year,
when or our friend here shall give the
word"
Fusa took the draft without other
resistance than an appealing glance at
me- Then her head fell back upon the
pillow and she lay rigid, motionless,
with closed eyes. as one dead.
Her death was announced in the
usual form and the funeral took place
in the regular way.
A few months later Professor Mark
man gave up his position and went
away, l understood, to Japan, though
after this episode our intimacy was in
terrupted. Jarbraw found another
lady love, one of the class to which he
belonged-one who, it seemed to ME,
was better fitted to be the wife of an
artisan than Fusa would have been.
The months flowed on. At last. one
night the professor raped at my win
dow.
"a year has passed. Shall we awak-
en- Fusa?"
what answer shall | give him?" l
asked myself on rising. -
In telling this story l was accus-
toned to pause here and look around
the absorbed listening circle with an
expression which l hoped would I'M
ply my belief in some profound mys-
terry. Sometimes one of the audience
would say to my wife:
And so you were in a hypnotic sleep
for a year?"
To which the lady would reply de-
murely, with a glance from half-closed
lids in my direction:
ut appears so from the narrative"
"And you did not know what trans
pired during all that timer"
80, 1 had full possession of my
senses, l heard all that was said in
my presence"
The professor would give warning
cough and turn the conversation.
One day, when we were alone, Fusa
said:
81 am tired of that fairy tale. II
seems to amuse you-you always did
| love a jest and to carry it to an eX-
, treme-but 1 do not, and l am going to
put an end of it if you bring it up
again"
why, you do not mean to deny that
G you vanished from human sight for a
year?'
, "Fiddlesticksi'
"That you died and were inclosed in
O a tomb?'
o How do you escape the imputatiOT
f of conniving at a crime? Why did yoT
@ not inform against my father2 VIVA
l shall say is this: l was a fOolisl
v young girl. infatuated with a MAJ
O whom it would have brought me I'm
p happiness to marry. l would not b'
q convinced by words, but agreed to ties
h his faithfulness by going away for l
q year. He did not stand the test
g should think you would be ashamed o
yourself-both of you! And | shall ex
pose you if you do not stop it,"
l. We stopped it. But this only show
that Fusa is quite unaware that sh
II did lie for a year in a hypnotic sleep
l. Waverly.