The daily Alaskan., 1908-09-30
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 "Professor Fulcrum, believe"
 At your service, sir"
 q understand that you have been for long while a close student of the brain and have made some remarkable discoveries"
 "I have simply been building on the scant knowledge held by our grand parents. It has been reserved for us Gn de sieclc people to point out the exact spot on the brain that directs any special condition"
 Your modcsty is wasted on me, pro lessor. It is you who have made this last discovery. How did you do lt?"
 "Vlvisection. Our ancestors found difficulty in getting consent to expert ment on animals. Now. with some 4OO,OOOOOO of people, life Is so cheap that we can operate on human beings. [ am indebted to malefactors for my discoveries. And malefactors are in. dcbtcd to me as well, for can now make an honest man of q rogue"
 "By what means?'
 "Trcpanning. For instance, I know the exact spot in the brain that pro duces kleptomania. l cut away bit of the skull and find an abnormal development Of the brain directly un- der it. This I cut away, and the pa tient has no more desire to steal"
 Gan you turn hate to love, or vice versa"
 "No, but l can destroy either the one or the other"
 "Now we are getting down to the object of my visit My son is in love with girl whom I do not wish him to marry. Can you destroy his love for hcr?"
 Yes"
 How"
 Recent development in microscopy has shown us that each sensation has a minute corrugatlon on the brain. On a certain point in your sons brain will be found q little protuberance com posed of these minute corrugations. If this protuberance Is removed the love is killed"
 "Forcvcr?"
 Not necessarily. Another operation Is required to prevent its return. l must cut away a certain tiny particle in the bump of memory for that par ticuIar girl"
 Very well. professor. I will bring my son to you at once. He Is waiting without"
 Professor FulCrum consented only on the payment of an immense fee and guaranty of indemnity in case the son claimed damages. Then the young man was shown Into a room, where an auacsthctic gas was turned on. When he was unconscious he was placed on a table and the operation performed. On coming to his senses he found hls head bandagcd and was told that burglar had shot him, mak ing two bullet holes in the brain. He was to be kept quiet till the wounds healed. He was removed to his home.
 "Who the dickens Is this Amanda Brown who is sending me flowcrsF he asked one morning during conva- | leSCenCe.
 His father. who heard the remark and hoped that he would marry the donor was delighted. He rushed or to Professor Fulcrum to tell him that the operation had been emmendy sue cessful.
 Now, professor" he said, there is a girl l wish my son to marry. Can you make him love her?'
 Certainly not"
 Are you sure? She loves him, and she Is immensely rich"
 "I am perfectly sure. l cannot ere ate. can only destroy"
 Jennie Carr. who had been removed from Walter Higgins memory. insisted upon seeing him as soon as 1t was safe for him 10 undergo the excitement of the meeting. Mir Higgins senior, curi. ous to know If his son would remem. Der her on seeing her, granted permis sion at once.
 "On. Walter" she said plalntiveIy, I'm so sorry"
 "Let me sec" said Walter looking a, her scrutlnlzlngly. "So many people have called to see me- Where have met you?"
 This was enough for Mir. Higgins senior. He took the girl away and told her that the shooting had affected his sons memory.
 One day six months later Mir H!g gins rushed into Professor Fulcrum's workroom in a rage.
 ".ou have swindled mew he cried, How soE
 My son has married the girl, after all"
 "Weu?"
 You said that you could guard against his love for her returning by destroying his memory of her. His love has returned. He has married her"
 Ut has not returned. If he loves her 1t is a new love- not the old one"
 Tt is certainly not a new one, for | h,., ,,tI,i,rr (, |, with