The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-12
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and of an interest to science quite as
absorbing
Returning one spring morning from a
two days visit in the country, he was
met at the door of his study by DIR. Ger
IRISH, who, without even pausing TO greet
him. cried eagerly:
Have you seen the newspapers OF
yesterday and tOday?"
Eyes. That's why / am here. I rec
ognized your protege's name, and hur-
ried, for l expected you would be wait
ing. Begin at the beginning and tell me
all about it,
tt was then that. for the first time,
Mr.. Gsrrish experienced subjectively
the wonders he had twice seen worked
on others by those marvellous eyes. For
as he sat on the forward edge of his
chair, his nerves thrilling with an ex-
element he had for hours striven vain
~ to repress, and looked into them he
saw the blue of them begin rapidly to
shift from blue to gray and gray 10
blue. flaming and undulating. SO that
80 follow their swift and subtle changes
filed him with strange sensations A
prickling shot UP and down his spine,
warm waves surged through his body,
there was buzzing in his ears. and his
mind was chaos of broken and jun
hled-up images. He had not a sane
thought in his head. Then suddenly
the blue and gray leaped 10 a steady
1inpid black. flooding him with peace.
He forgot his nerves, he saw nothing
but those two placid. Dellucid bottom
less wells. the confusion in his mimi
which had left him all abroad as 10 the
proper point at which to begin his story
vanished, and he became calm and clear
headed. with the tale plainly outlined
in his inner vision from start to finish.
it was only by a supreme effort of VIII,
which was most disagTeeable in the eX-
ercise, that he managed to switch his
1jfGughts momentarily ASIDE and say
deprecatihgly. with a faint smile:
You consider it necessary-for met
For YOU. as for everybody who is
confused and excited" said DR. Furni-
vail. ITS nothing but a sedative. You
probably VIII be surprised when YOU are
through to find what an excellent ra-
contour YOU are. If SO, II VIII be only
because your mind is concentrated on
YOUR story, and does not run off at un-
important tangents. Go on; I'm ready
But" began DR. GeTrish, with last
faint flicker OF protest Il man feels
against having his freedom CONTROLLED
b. another in any degree.
DIR. Furnivall smiled grimly.
Il am controlling you. Gerrish." he
said mo more than I have done a hun
bred times before without your knowl-
edge Your attention has been called
10 the fact now by what I did to those
others, and you recognize il, that's all
The difference. And even at that I am
only doing. in principle. what you do
when you give your patients pill. I'll
tell you the secret of it in due season,
and then you win see my justification.
It won't hurt you, ] pass my word. Now
proceed"
sWelI. then" continued Dr. GerFish.
submissively. ''you remember the young
fellow I've been helping through the
medical school You never saw him,
but I've told you about him-Percival
Warner. He was graduated last year.
1t seems he was engaged to be married
20 this Blanche Goodwin. and they used
10 walk together evenings along the
river banks. Night before last, Tues
day night she left her home at
o'eIcck-she's a governess with the Par
kers-to meet him. as it is supposed.
but she didn't return, and in the morn
ing her body was found in the river.
The papers raised q great hue and cry
over it, of course. Naturally the sus-
picions of the police flew to Warner,
though. as there We're no bruises on
the corpse and no signs of choking,
some thought she might have been dag
Zled by the lights where the road is be-
ing repaired and fallen over the rocks
into the water I'm the darkness. Those
who knew Warner wouldn't listen to a
word against him. He was dead in love
with the girl, as she was with him, they
said, and the two were bending all their
efforts toward an income sufficient tO
warrant their marriage.
A''They were bound up in each other
But when il was found that Warner
himself had left his room that evening
at o'clock and had not been seen aft
erward; the police were satisfied. They
held that there had been quarrel and
he had pushed her overheard, so they
began to search for him. That evening
wednesday, a man came in great fear
and trembling to the police lieutenant
and said that he was a Waterman in
the car barn near by. and that on Tues
day evening he had seen Miss Good
win and Warner, both of whom he knew
well by sight, leaning on the bridge
railing together. Suddenly he heard the
girl say, Don't don't kill me. Percy
You said you would once before Upon
that Warner struck her and she fell
on the roadway. The Waterman hur-
ried up and said. Mr.. Warner. you'll
suffer for this. Warner returned flu
riously, If you open your mouth about
Il I'll serve you the same and threw
the girl into the river Then the watch
man. who was a much smaller mar
than Warner, ran back TO the barn and
locked himself in, where he remained
until his conscience overcame his feaI
of Warner, when he ventured forth and
gave his information.
DR.. Gerrish here paused and produced
a large diary, bound in red. His voice
had been perfectly restrained, indeed
mechanical, as he repeated the grew
some story, and now he continued in the
same tone, still held as if unconscious
Iy by Furnivalrs gaze, his eyes never
straying the width of a hair from those
bottomless depths. even when he show
ed the diary and laid its pages open:
This volume ] found in her room,
when / went there yesterday. 1t is a
confession of her passionate love. the
record of year and more. She tells
how first she met him. where they went
what they did. and so on. for nearly
every day during the year. The minut-
est details are gone into, and the most
passionate and intimate passages be-
tween them are given with perfect can
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