The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-11-19
cHAPTER vn-continued

* would ba miraculous. Do you believe
In miracles? The impressions OF heat,
OF the blood, of light. IN our tissues are
not ~catalcguable, IL 1 may be allowed
the expression. The impression on the
retina Is produced by the r~efraction
which Is called ETHEREAL phosphorescent.
md which is almost as difficult to seize
Is 70 weigh the lmponderable. To
think TO fiud or the retina a luminous
Impression after n certain number of
hours and days would be, as Vernois
has very well said. to think one can
find in the organs OF hearing the last
sound which reyerberated through
them. euhi Seize the air bubble at the
n of a tube INT place it is a museum
On a curiosity. Is there anything left
OF II but q drop OF water which Is
burst, while OF. the aeeting vision or
the passing sound nothing remainsi"
The unfortunate Bernardet suffered
keeniy when he heard this. He wished
TO answer The words came to his lips.
Ah. IL he was only In M. Ginory'S place!
The latter, with bowed head, listened
and seemed to weigh each word as IL
dropped from M. Morin's lips.
Let us eason It: but" the professor
wentyon. since he pthalmoscope does
not show to the oculist on the retina
any OF the objects or beings which a
sick man Sees-you understand. not one
OF thern-rhow can you think that pho
Biography can n hat object or being
on the retina OF q dead mans eyer"
He waited for objections from the
examining magistrate. and Bernardet
hoped that M. Ginory WOULD combat
Some Of the professors arguments. He
had only to say: What OF it? Let us
see, Let us experiment" And Bernar-
Diet had lonGed for just three words
from him. but the magistrate remained
silent. his head stu bent. The police
nnpDf falf xvfth n aoYafr hi1 olanoa Hli,-
ping, slipping away from him. and that
never. w again would he find a like
opportunity TO test the experiment.
Suddenly the strident tones of DR.. Err
wins voice rang out sharply, like an
electric bell. and Ber1.ardet experienced
q sensation like that of a sudden un-
expected illumination.
MY dear MASTER" he respectfully
began, II ga wat home in Denmark q
poor devil picked up dying, half de-
oured by a wolf, and who, when taken
from the very jaws OF the beast, still
retained In the eye a very visible
Image In which one could see the nose
and teeth of the brute. A vision! I'M
~aginatlon. perhaps! But the fact
q note OF IT,
"And2" questioned M. NORM in a
tone OF raillery.
Bernardet cooked his ear as q dog
does when he hears an unusual sound.
NJ. Ginory looked at this slender young
man with his long blond hair, his ewes
as blue as the waters of a lake, his
hegan. Il saw at nome In Denmark O
race pale and wearing the peculiar look
common TO searchers after the mys-
teriouR. The students and the others
gathered about their master, remained
~inotionlsss and listened i~ntently as to a
lecture.
And" DIR. Irwin went on frigidly,
N We nae found absolutely nothing,
we would at least have kept silent
ebout an unsuccessful research, It Is
useless to say. Think. then, my dear
master, the exterior objects must have
Imprinted themselves on the retina, did
they not reduced in size. according to
ine size OF the place wherein they were
rsflected. They appeared there; they
certainly appeared there. There isl
beg your pardon for referring to Il, but
" fs to these Others (and DIR. Erwin
designated M. Ginory. his registrar,
end BernardeD-there is in the retina
q substance OF red color. the pourpre
retinien, very sensitive to the light.
Upon the deep red OF this membrane
ob1ectB are seen white. and one can fix
tho image, M. Edmond Perrier, profess
soc In the Museum Of Natural History.
reports (you know IL better than I, my
dear mastery. In = work on animal an
NAOitA4 hftu puySioIOkY WHICH our Sill
dents, arc all familiar with, that he
made an experiment. After removing
q rabbits eye. a living rabbits eye
yes. science Is cruel-he placed If I'm n
dark room, 30 that he could obtain
upon the retina the image Of some OBJ
5ect. q window. for Instance. and
plunged IL Immediately into a solution
OF alum and prevented the decomposI-
ton OF the pourpre ~retinien, and he
window could plainly be seen, fixed on
the eye In that black chamber which
we have under our eyebrows. in the
orbit. Is a storehouse, a s~torehouse
OF images which are retained, like the
image which the old Danes v held
OF n VOLTS nose and teeth. and-who
knows 2--perhaps it is possible to ask
or dead mans eye the secret OF what
II saw when living"
This WAS put In more scientific
terms by the young Danish doctor, the
substance OF what Bernardet believed
possible. The young man had listened
with the attractive sympathy which il
displayed when anything novel Is ex-
planned. Rigid upon the marble slab.
the vlctim seemed to walt for the re-
suit OF the discussion. leaf to all the
confused sounds about him, his eve
liked upon h infinite, o the un-
movable which he now knew.
1T a however, this insensible body
Ae% NNACNu hBS ulcCuESIDH q
what was 81 enigma to savants. What
was b secret OF his end, the last word
Z OF his agony? Who made thar wound
which had ended his life? And. like a
statue lying on Its stone couch. the
murdered man seemed to wait. What
they knew not he knew. What they
wished to n he still knew perhaps.
This doubt alone. rooted deep In M.
Cinory's mind. was enough 20 urge him
10 have the experiment tried, and ex-
cusing himself for his i~nfatuntion he
begged M. NORM to grant permission
TO try the experiment, which some of
tho doctors had thought would be sue
cessfuI. -
I'VE shall be relieved even IL we do
rot succeed. and we can out add orr
defeat to the others. -
IA. Morin's face still bore its skep-
teal smile. But. after all, the eyamin-
ing magistrate was master of the sit
uation. and since young DIR. Erwin
brought the result of the Denmark ex-
perfment-a contribution new in these
rese~arches--to add weight to the mat.
ter the professor requested that no
should not be asked TO lend himself
IN an axneriment which Ia 1arIora,1 a.