The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-09-15

founded thing won't go"
won't GOT" said the colonel.
"that a curious way of speaking.
II have tried to sell it," said Cam
pion, drearily, but no one will buy
or say thank you for it. / even
pawned it, and kind friend re-
deemed it. / lose it, and it gets it.
self brought home somehow. / drop
it into canal, but it doesn't stay
there. tried to bury it-well, it
wasn't buried"
Doesn't seem to me bad sort of
IDOL" said the colonel, critically, pass
ing by these statements as willful ex-
aggerations; usual kind of Buddhist
image, seen score of 'em in Burmah.
Why should you be so anxious to get
rid of it? What's wrong with it?'
II don't know" said Campion. II
can only say that ever since it came
into this house nothing has been as
it used to be. 1t began by killing Mrs.
Standards dog for merely barking at
it, as she will tell you herself" MRS.
| Standard here intimated that she
could give very different version Of
that accident) "In an evil hour /
painted it into portrait was doing
of your daughter, and in some abom-
Unable way, when I saw it again, the
| idol had absorbed all her features and
given her it's own. l can't believe
my Academy pictures would have
been what they were if / had
not been in a sort of way bewitched.
1 splashed its face with paint on5e, as
test-and I was perfectly color
blind till l wiped it clean again.
There must be something the matter
with it,!
with yourself, you should say"
said Mrs. Standard, if you really be-
lieve all you're telling us. 1t lies be-
tween two things; either you are un-
| der delusion, Orwell, / leave the
inference to you"
"Then / am under delusion, too, !"
said Sybil, for believe it. And, all
here is Mr.. Nebelsen, he believes it.,
tGo-he will tell you so"
| The colonel was understood to say
I something about COMPOUNDED nom
sense" as Nebelsen entered by the
studio door, and Joined them with a
look of mystic enthusiasm and deter
mination on his face.
THAT in that leedle idol there are
maleficeat properties resident?" he
said in answer to Sybil, certainly 1
beleaf him. More also l come hier
now expressly to egsblain to Mr.. Cam
pion how and why, aggording to my
latest solution-theory, this is scien-
tifically possible, probable event"
Papa, you will listen, too?" cried
Sybil. Mr.. Nebelsen-my father, :"
she added, as the colonel gave a
grudging acknowledgement of the in
PRODUCTION.
"If Herr Nebelsen is going to try
to persuade us that idolators are
right and we are wrong" put in Mrs.
Standard, Il must really ask to be
| excused"
"We had better hear anything Mr.
Nebelsen may have to tell u.s." said
the colonel, resignedly. And the
Chela was by no means loath to detail
his latest discovery to the larger
audience.
First of all what hat to tell you"
he began, lis that your idol is most
| likely not Buddhist emblem at all.
He is, or so my goot friend the
Brother Chowkydaree Loll thinks, a
Jain idol, and the jams, as you know,
are still a fourishing sect in India.
You do not see what difference that
makes? Well, am going to tell you.
Their images are all to commemorate
some one who when alive was shust
very holy mana 'tirthankar' he is
| titled. Now there is tradition that,
within the last hundert year, some
one for a time got into the Saints
Calender without any business, and
afterwards turns out to be not true
tirthankar at all, but only an i'm
poster. And what the Brother Loll
beleafs, and l also, is that, not I'M
likely, that idol there on the chair
is the very same which once was
erected to him"
Il see, said Campion, interested In
spite of himself "And that is how
you would explain my putting the idol
in that portrait, and painting that
fakir-why, it may even account for
the barbaric coloring in those I'M
lucky Academy pictures of mine!"
Perhaps, either vanity, or malice,
or jealousy, cannot say. But all the
time a stronger purpose than all is
slowly shaping himself; by his Drank
ish tricks he is striving, more and
more, to make himself disliked."
with some success" remarked
Campion; Il don't like him.
But why? Ach even l myself
could not till quite lately guess At
last he has found out that, hier, in
this land, his idol is not abreciated
he now desires to go away where
it will be at home. So that my dear
Mahatma was so right to say as he
did, for must now tell you / have
no doubt, and so also Mr.. Chowky-
daree Loll, that what he meant to
write was: Return the idol to the
land. not hand. from which he came. >
"Ther to accomplish this result,
the imitation tirthankar spirit puts
all the pressure he can upon Mr.. Cam.
pion, and Mr.. Campion can only re.
spond to his wish to go by trying him.
self to part with him--but no, thai
is not what he wants at all, and every
time he is taken out. he comes back
always leedle more angry"
And where does he want to gC
to-" said Campion, because I've nj
dacirN RI dnfaip him,