Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-11-21

! tissues the physical appearances a
! protracked vice. He shall know 70.
4 day how HIS body viii DO discovered.
and how his memory will bo forever
discreditsd in the eyes OF the world.
And ! shall tell him to-day that he Is
bound and in my power, wearing the
helmet Of brass which robs him Of
his own power Of secret thought. I am
going up stairs to watch his agony In
pictures, and that Marjorie win be
with methat she is utterly under my
influence and that we shall laugh to-
gether as we see each thought, each
agony, chasing one another over the
screen. We shall be together, / shall
tell him, my arms will be round her
her lips will seek mine, and for the
first time In the history Of the world
He stopped for a moment. His hand
went up to his throat as If the torrent
of words were choking him. Then
Guest cut into his insane ecstasy.
You are fool, William" came
from the pink-faced man, In an icy
litter. OF course, when you tell him
why and how we have used him, he
will believe it. But Ifdon't think that
he will believe in your pleasant fiction
of you and the girl as sort of latter.
day LAGOON in one armchair, laugh
ing together as you take your supreme
revenge"
Gouldesbrough strobe up to Guest
He clutched him by the shoulder.
"Give me the keys" he said-"the
keys, the keys!"
Guest was not at all dismayed
Laughing still, he put his hand into
his pocket and took out the pass key
OF the strong room. There you are,
William" he said; now go down and
enjoy yourself. Our friend is still
tied down on the couch-he's been
like that for several hours, because
I've forgotten to go and loose him.
I'm going to have some more whisky,
and then shall go to the big labora-
tory and switch on the current, If
Pm not very much mistaken, our
friends brain will provide series of
pictures more intense and vivid, more
sharply defined in both outline and
color, than have ever seen before
during the whole of our experiments. I"
Gouldesbrough took the key and was
out of the room in flash Guest
CROPPED for the decanter.
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His hair was quite gray now. All
the gold had gone from 1t, Just as the
youth had passed from his face, which
was now the color of ashes and CASH
ed with agony.
And he lay there, trussed and tied |
In his material letters of indiarubber
and aluminium. On his head the
cleaning metal cap was clamped He |!
was supine and an old man. All the |
sap had gone from the fine athlete Of |
q few weeks ago, and the splendid |
body that had been was just shell
q htsk.
But the soul looked through the
eyes still. tortured but undaunted, in
agony but not afraid.
In the lower silence of that deep4|
cellar where Gerald suffered there
we're but two sounds. One was tie In
sistent whisper of the electric fan,
The other was the voice which came
from the body of Sir William Gouldes-
brough,5 as he bent over the recum-
oent hgure-the broken, motfonlesst
figure in which still, brave eyes were
set like jewels. Il
So now you know--you know 1t all.
You realize, dead man, all that have
lone to you. and all that am going
20 do. Down here in this little room,
you have thought you. were alone.
You have imagined that whatever had
happened to you. you were yet alone
With the agony Of your thoughts and
with your Maker. But you were not.
Though you never knew 1t until now,
you never were. Each prayer that you |
thought you we're sending up to the |
unknown force that rules the world |
was caught by me. For weeks have
daily seen into your soul, and laughed |
at its irremediable pain. / have got
your body, and for the first time in
The history of the world your mind,
your soul, are mine also
81 Ito BE Continued.
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