The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-04-27

I had long boon anxious to expert
mens with Ghsss newRrays. On our
return to Boston I fitted our house up
with many instruments,
INV wife, Q sweet tbue unintellect.
ual aud vain p,rson. sho eed an an
tipathy to my work. She refused to
enter my laboratory. aud seemed to
shudder at my harmless fiuoroscope
and light bulbs.
One night nay fixed idea rose ir
rs gradually acquired might aud TOOK
0 oninand OF me, My wife had lust
returned from Z fashionable BAH.
She complained Of n terrible head.
acha and acosp5ed my Off " to relieve
TO- 4 gave her q hvp0dermic OF NOR
phia.
1 deliberately gave her an over
dose, but not a fatal one. The effects
OF the drug came on instantly, the
headache passed, she thanked me
dfow''ily and was 500 insensible. ly
ing In her ball gown brea 5hing heav-
lily.
with elaborate oare I brought in
my Instruments from the laboratory
and arranged thom. My heart beat
Ok 16 never bead before. It was not a
pa'pttation, but q strong surRipg beat
"hloh sent the blood to my byaiu' In q
sGea1'er, stronger stream than usual
My faculties seemed exceptionally
acute, as we'll they might bs, for l
felt that l was the first scientist and
perhaps The first man to see q human
soul
AT last tho Instruments were ar
ranged, tested and found to be work
ing perfectly. Behind mo we're tue
tubes cuft,tng The ultraviolet light.
They were placed behind me bee suse
| believed that / could $50 the auul IN
reflected light 81 It really looks, aud
not "a mere shadow as 1t would appear
between mo and the light. My luor.
oScant screen hSd . lens attaohment
FOR focusing an image which l believe
was an entirely new idea.
IL Opened Il secret drawer In my
saccetary aud took th9reirom the
o'Cst deadly Of nll Silent death, a hy-
podcrmic ayriuge fltled with cyanic
;,ctd, Gwo crops Of which inj c.ed in
ID tao vcinH prCducea instauD death,
leaving no puipis blo.chts or traces OF
any kid.
AT frat en- indiasinguIshnble sha-
low seemed 70 lie gathering jnst eboyc
1io oony, rapidly assuming tho our
unes oF bhc human form, ard most
feffaod In lib symmetry. Tie feat
u!es boro the lk@neas Of the Gead,
s'id were beautiful beyond description.
the %delicttC, clear and c9haroal bBiug
no3ted Ia the Atmosphere with eyes
closed until the process OF nature
seemed complete, whom they opened
and a sublime ltollig nc, pissed owe,
the face, 1t fl ated thr ugh the air
8 mJlGont, aud then, Gs II .mpelled by
some at~brnctiun, move ike = vapprY
mass toward a nalf open wind>w, pas
srd OUT and vas gone forever from my
light.
Tho eyes seemed to look toward
nc a. ins5ant. The expression chaog
ed. NOT anger, nor r.proacb, bu.
utter am 2 meat was depicted on that
himy ctuatenaoc3 as IT drifted out IF
range OF ms screen.
Bor scmc time l stood like one
+trickcn dumb. The eDormity Of the
crime l had committed came like sn
avalarcle upon my brain. Again and
again l called my wi.e'8 name ano
mly the echo Of her waiting voice
answer, me.
Il destroyed all evidence of nv
guilt and fl d from the city OF Boston
s~ay TO the mountains Of the West
Hare for two years / have live In Sc.
cluSion, many times .maditatIng my
n"n life. but always being deslsted
FROM ny purpose because I wantrd
iirst to prove What l have all thi.
Gma been trying to sulvo:
IA dtahh but the br.innirg OF life {
my mind is veal al.l foggad az |
wife tnts, AMI ny ~ nory bo' her
me. an probably going insane, If
an nut a!r ady 30.
Wen SO b, IL. L arm glad to ex
phrl"nre ~tnsanity, to-; la fact 1 vii
~ Of deatn Md see whabit is ike
(Ihn strange manuscript ends a,
th.s point. Tnere If no signature, anC
il is Thought there may possibly have
been more