The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-02

get the news from her. I'll tell you.
Whisper. Or. Furnivallr'
He winked knowingly as he pro-
nOuEced the word, and shook his head
confidently. The landlord, however,
was unresponsive. He did not under
stand yet. But the physician at the
bedside caught tie name, and nodded
to the sergeant.
~CaIl him. -fe said. Tell him [ have
asked him I'm consultation. There's
more than hysteria here, / don't know
what yet, and i shOuldr be glad5to have
his advice"
The sergeant was fortunate enough
to get speech at once with DR.. Furni-
vail over the telephone. and in less
than a quarter of an hour he arrived.
The patient now lay in comparative
quiet, crying out only occasionally, in
SUCH an incoherent manner that moth
ing could be made of her meaning. In
deed. as soon as DR.. FurnivaH looked
into her eyes he declared that she had
no meaning. If she spoke. it was auto
matically. And ne was forced to con-
fess that in this case his hypnotic
powers were of no avail. Her mind
was in such a chaotic state that he
could not reach it. 1t had no stability
! She was incapable of thought. To at
tempt to force her to concentrate her
]
gazing into 2 mass of floating vapor
9nd bidding it to body itself forth as a
voice.
Sergeant Nulty, who had hailed the
entrance of his hero with a broad grin
of triumph. scratched his head and
grew pale with chagrin, turning a help
! less eye upon the man he had so conf
IDENTIFY relied upon, but who now dis
appointed him at the moment of trial.
Although he had already, over the teic-
! phone. briefly explained the circum-
stances to DR.. Furnivall, giving him
tthe main points Of the case and stating
| what he wanted. he could not help
I think that the doctors failure was
/ due, perhaps, to the fact that he did
not quite appreciate the great import
ance attaching to the discovery of that
missing doctors name. When it is alb
! solutely necessary to do thing it can
( be done, even if it is impossible. ac-
cording to the sergeant. With defer
ence he therefore approached and in an
/ earnest whisper began to go over the
story again for the doctors better I'M
I derstanding. BUT it was useless. Dr.
| Furnivall shook his head
NO power on earth he said. 'can
draw sanity from q mind whose organ
of expression. the brain, is as defect
/ i've as that woman's. Repair the brain
and she Will speak, but not until that
is done"
Now. when tie sergeant had come ur
and began to- whisper his explanations
the doctor, who was at the bedside
moved away and stood by the wall al
<the footboard, regarding the invalid's
face, which was turned directly toward
him. nevertheless listening to the STORY
| of the urgent Irishman. He noticed al
once that the bed did not lie snugly
| against the wall. and he saw a small
piece of paper on the floor in the va
cant space, but thought nothing of il
until the moment after the Importance
of discovering the mysterious physi-
clans identity was impressed upon him
and at the very instant when the last
\ quoted words were on his lips he recog-
nized the paper as one torn from &
physicians prescription pad, and
moreover, he knew Immediately wha'
physicians pad ii had come off of. Il
was that of DIR. Wellington. In short
one of DIR. FurnivalIs own deares
friends was Individually the mysteriou.
doctor whom the police were hunting
for having committed this brutal muir
DER
In a flash the whole situation wa.
changed in DIR. Furnivalps mind. Here
tofore he had accepted the theory o
murder without question. All signs
pointed TO 1.-THE loud words in tn,
room, the fist of one man in the othe
mans face. the pushing arms. the fac
through the window, the condition o
the wife which was supposedly brough
on by the shock of seeing her husban,
tumbled to his death. and far from