The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-23


he whispered to DR.. Gerrish:
Il am going home to refresh my
memory with an authority that occurs
to me- Bring me some of the patients
blood as soon as you can. If we
haven't run up against the most sub
tie, fiendish crime"
"Crime!" gasped DR.. Gerrish taken
wholly by surprise.
You say this nephew is his heir--is
there likeness of him of any kind in
the house that you know Off"
This seemed to DR.. \ Gerrish to be
exceedingly irrelevant, but he answered
readily by pointing to the wall, on
which was hung a fine oil painting of
young man in uniform DR.. Furni-
vail stood back and examined it. His
mental processes as he did so were
somewhat as follows. The interpreta-
ton has become so famous among ply
sicians and phrenologists that it would
be SupererOgatory to introduce here
any more than the striking points of it:
1.-THE brain is large at the base, as
compared with the upper superior con-
volutiOnS of the cerebrum, especially
in the upper frontal lobes at the seat
of the faculties of benevolence and ven
Grafton. The development Immediate
~ over the eye shows perception in a
marked degree. and the fuliness of the
eyes themselves means a flow Of Ian
gudge-wOrds, words, words to such
an extent that superficial observer. or
one who loved the speaker, would be-
lieve him much deeper and more ac-
complished than is the case. The fore
head, i'm the abrupt recession of the
upper superior convolutions, indicates
also this same lack of benevolence.
Casualty, comparison, and generation
are largely deficient. His most strik-
ing faculty is that of human nature.
The head, through the regions of the
ears and the temporal lObes, is ex-
trcmely broad--it means destructive
ness, secrctiveness. There is great en-
ergy and executive ability, love of
money and power, active slyness and
cunning. Roof shaped at the vertix.
siOping toward the parietal eminences,
the head mere indicates a lack of con-
scientiousness. The still, small voice
in this man is so very small and still
that he never heard it. His self-esteem
will give him absolute confidence in his
ability to carry out whatever scheme
his selfish prOpensities may concOct,
and he has the determination and
steadfastness Of the bulldog His
cerebellum is abnormally developed,
which indicates muscularity, and he is
doubtless strong and vigorous. Caring
primarily for his own feelings and
wants, sly, surreptitious, yet at the
same time forceful. he is a dangerous
type of man. one in whom it would be
difficult to find any natural quality of
a gentleman-ueither love, honor, trust,
nor conscience"
DIR. Furnivall turned from the por-
trait to Dr. Gerrish.
What uniform is that in the pic
ture?"
II don't know. But he is a surgeon.
in The Egyptian medical service, until
recently working with the Soudan COM
mission"
Until recently? Where is he now p
s'On his way here. He was sent for
three months since, and is expected
daily
How long ago was this vase re-
ceived?"
oh. he brought it himself when he
was i'm the city last year"
All, he has visited here himself, Do
you know if the patient has been out of
the United States lately?''
Not for eight years, certainly. for |
have known him for that length of
time"
''WeH, bring me the blood"
x x x
DR.. Furnivall Strengthened up from
his microscope and putting on his
SpSctdclSSr looked At LII. GerGiSn.
1T is as I thought" he said. "Bac-
teriClOgic culture of trypanosOmes!''
Good heavens" calculated DR.. Ger
rish, stepping quickly to the micro
scope. How on earth did you ever
come to suspect such a thing?"
In the first place, the symptoms of
the patient indicated ii. And as soon
as saw that odd vase in his room
was practically certain. For vases
of that sort. as I see by my authority
here, are made only in the Bahr-E Ell
Gshazal province N the southern Sou
dan, where trypanosomiasis, or Sleep
ing Sickness is common"
DR.. Gerrish, who was eagerly study
ing the culture, raised his head quickly
But" he said. the patient was
never there-and how could he con-
tract"
THE disease is spread in two ways.
first by the bite of the tsetse fly. That
is the common way"
We'll, there are no tsetse flies
here"
mo. there are not. But there is the
second way-direct incubation of the
parasites into the blood-and we have
hypodermic needles here
DR.. sGerriSh stared at him blankly q
moment. Then he comprehended, and
his face paled.
Good God! Can he be such a subtle
fiend." he murmured.
THE disease proves fatal, you I'M
derstand, alWays-not until long
time subsequent to incubation, how
ever, anywhere from three months 10
three years after decided symptoms ap-
pear. And there is no sign of poison
only general paralysis. or chiefly that
But why should he wish to do it =?
He was his uncles heir, and would
get his property anyway, or most of
it. And, indeed, all of it. in effect. for
he is to marry the adopted daughter
who is the only other living person like
ly to be thought of In the WILL
1.-The reasons we may leave until we
interview the nephew. Rest assured
he had good ones in his own estima-
ton. I'll get a warrant for him. and
as soon as he arrives he and l will
have a little chat together on the sub
ject."
Tine next day, accordingly, found DIR,
FUrhiVall face to face with the young
Enelishman, who had reached his I'M
ele's house that morning. The portrait
which the doctor had studied was q
good likeness, and he shuddered in
wardly as he looked into the pitiless
gray eyes and felt the atmosphere of
brutal self1shness that eEveloped the
man beneath the cultivated suavity OF
manner which n tho casual Observer