The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-12
MAGAZINE SECTION.
By
George T. Butler, ND.

where the paths Of science are straight
ready covered yourself with glory.
Don't risk ignominy by scattering your
talents. Medicine-stick to pure medi-
cine, my boy. Take my advice"
Il most certainly intend to do so
hereafter" he returned with a good
humored laugh. What 1 can't under
stand is how you yourself can stomach
this kind Of thing"
"Oh, I'm a sort OF Apollo, merely
Slancing at the mist rising from the
River Styx. and thereby changing it in
to beautiful rainbow returned DR..
Furnivall lightly.
! He stopped at the telegraph Office
again as he spoke, ran in. and DR.. Ger
IRISH saw through the window that he
received a large package of messages
which he began 10 open eagerly. At the
seventh he stopped reading, threw the
others unopened into a waste basket,
consulted his watch. and, hastily re-
entering the car, started 1t at speed to-
ward the city.
Another complication" suggested
/ DIR Gerrish, not knowing what to make
of his panion's manner, which, from
the signs. might have been anything
from anxiety to amazement, or even
suppressed jubilation.
/ You'll think so when you see Il, was
all he could answer.
IL ten minutes, to DR.. Gerrish's sur
prise. they drew up at his own door.
| DR.. FurniVall again looked at his watch
and threw quick glance down the
street. Then he sat back in his seat.
crossed his legs, lit cigar. and took
his ease,
DIR. Gerrish said nothing, for his eyes
were on a hack. the driver of which
was flashing his team as if he had been
Z
were about to crash right over the auto
mobile. The next instant the horses
were thrown on their launches, with
| their noses almost touching the ma
chine; the driver jumped down, wrested
the back door open, and man and
woman emerged. making hastily for the
entrance to the young physicians Office.
He gave them one look and sprang
erect as if electrified.
Good heavens -Percyr' he cried.
Ind Mrs. Pereival Warner" suavely
said DR.. Furnivall, formerly Miss
Blanche Goodwin. Do you see the
beauty of the solution?' he added, with
a droll cast Of the eye.
'"The moment read OF the affair IN
the papers" said Dr. Furniva1l to his
delighted friend that evening in tha
speakers study Il suspected accident
theory was based on Warmers chaTac-
ter as you had found it to me. He sim
ply could not have done it. I thought
as others did that the girl, dazzied by
those lanterns along the road might
have missed her way and fallen in, and
that Warner, failing to find her at the
trysting place, and led astray for some
reason known to himself, was searching
for her out of town, which would ex-
plain his absence. The Waterman, as
surely as Warmers character was what
you believed. was subject to neuro-
pathic -hysteria, and after dwelling a
whole day on the subject, mad imagined
fthat scene. We have many such cases
on record. It proved that 1 was right
His hysteria, aggravated by the crime
so near by, the loneliness Of his occu-
patton, his knowing the girl. too, as he
! thought and perhaps a tinge of that
! love for notOriety we see everywhere
through all this he had conjured up
that vision and seen 1t so frequently
in his mind that he fully believed it.
| In his confession he stated the truth
as he saw it. It was only under my in
fluaEce and through my examination
that the contradictions and gaps show
ed, for he was unprepared for the ques-
tons and could tell only what was in
/ his mind Many a man with his trou-
BILE has shown up as a rascal on the
WILKES Stdiits anu III private me- lDNs
when he was only diseases. SO much
for him.
''Then when you informed me Of the
/ diary, and showed it to me, 7 believed
L recognized another phase OF hysteria
in its glowing, often incoherent, pages,
and thought of suicide, because, never
dreaming that the body was not hers.
I could explain the facts in no other
| way. You recall the PIedgett case, in
which the woman kept a diary for a
whole year, detailing a love affair, Just
as in this instance, and there wasn't a
word of objective truth in il. I rea-
soned that Miss Goodwin, with her
mind excited by the Authorizations OF
her disease, subject as she must be to
fits of deep melanchoIia, had jumped
into the river. But as soon as viewed
the body and those clothes-why, man
alive, where were your eyes? The face
might possibly have passed for that OF
a fairly intelligent woman, but not a
cultivated one. Certainly she never
could have been the governess Of Philip
/ Parker's children. I had. too, a dim
recollection of a housemaid who was
missing. according TO the papers, and.
as I recalled the description, it seemed
to fit. The clothing settled the ques-
| ton. No woman who was sufficiently
cultured to be your friends sweetheart,
or a governess, either, could dress SO
| tasteleSSly. L knew It was the lost
maid, doubtless a suicide, from the fact
that her name had been cut from her
garments, so I telegraphed the police
and received word that she would be
Z called for by her brother. The grocery
man who, you remember was the first
to identify the body. had gone to the
Parker place for mis- morning order.
without doubt learned that the govern
ess had fled. and then. Of course, the
rest was natural and inevitable. ANY
/ body found near there would he that OF
Miss Goodwin il it bore even 4 remote
resemblance to her; and the mob, ex-
pecting to see Miss Goodwin, when
they looked at the body. simply saw
her That is human. It isn't likely that
she was well known by any Of them.
and body lying dead and nearly naked
on a slab isn't expected to resemble
very closely the same body alive, erect.