Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-05-28

CHAPTER Ill Continued.
He shall spend the night in sleep,
but he shall wake from bad dreams,
end in the mirror he shall see the
s,eadov, deepen on his face, another
line about his eyes, which will be
more sunk, his mouth shall be looser,
but the leer on his lips will be the
r2ore seen for that. Oh, he will not
like himself Come! l will show you
some thing" He went over to the cor
ner where the curtained object was,
and drew the curtains.
A large glass was disclosed, divided
in two. IN one side was glass stool
on rubber mat; stool On the other
side was made of some kind of metal;
across the top ran some glass tubes,
in which colored light flashed spas
medically, but the colors varied in the
different tubes, of which there were
nine. Vandraken noticed that he
tingled all over when some of the
tubes flashed, while others scarcely
had any effect on him; but all affect
cd him differently.
"X-Rays?" questioned Vandraken.
Cor is it helium?"
Neither" answered Won larsen
helm. ''They are planet rays
"Wha-at?" cried Vandraken, taking
a hasty step backwards. Here. Let
me out of this!"
'But they will not bite; they will
not jump at you. They are like birds
in their little cages See the plumage,
the nice plumage, of different color
for every planet. Red or yellow or
blue, according to the nature of their
vibrations
But it is incredible!" casper Van
draken, collapsing in chair at re-
spectful distance.
"Ah, yes, it is incredible; that is
why l do not sepak of it in the news
papers. The sun days, now, focused
in the magnifying glass-piff chill
dren play with them. The moon rays,
lovers reach their arms to them
poets write Of them, the tides dance
with them. But the rays of Jupiter,
and Mars, and Venus, and the others
twinkle, twinkle, little star! Yes?"
He laughed mockingly.
3.T'm getting my thousand pounds
worth, certainly ami" murmured
Vandraken. cts a irst-class peep
show-all creation hopping about the
room. There was a man in New York
who claimed that everyone radiated
some particular color of his own, and
said he could see them. For five dol
lars he'd tell you what your color
was"
1.-The police arrested him-yes?
know him. They club him on the head,
and call him crank. and fine him ten
dollars. He saw mems souls, that man,
but he talked about it. He was a fool"
"Souls?" said Vandraken impa-
t;ent1y. "You surely don't insist that
| believe in them?"
There are many words, my friend,
for something about us not made of
protoplasm, but soul is the shortest.
You need not believe now, but when
you are hypnotized you will subcon-
sciously believe
81 take no stock in it-none what
ever. A body is enough for me. The
other thing was invented by parsons
SO they could rock you" He spoke de-
family, but uneasily.
'sThe parsons? Oh, yes, it was easy
for them once; bodies were not so
comfortable as they are now, so peo-
pie liked the idea of the soul. Now
they have the nice, long, comfortable
life, they say it is enough; the soul
is one damned nuisance. When I fin
ish my invention for making death
the end of all things, people will pay
me more than all the clerics in the
world; then l am the richest man of
all. Oh, the poor clerics Ormuz, the
Chaldean, would have done this, but
Ptolemy, the king, put him to death.
1t was best for him. The priests
would have burnt him (as they will
want to burn me) and his book, and
then I, Abdul Won Tarsenheim, would
not have seen it."
Look here" said Vandraken, 'I'm
collecting rare books. I'll give you
your price for that one"
Some day perhaps / sell it. My
mothers tribe of the desert gypsies,
they kill me if they know l have it.
There was a Syrian"-he chuckled-
they think he took it. Oh, the poor
Syrian! They torture him, so that he
say where he hide it, but he died too
soon. Some day-who knows they
find l have the book. Then A look
Of fear came into his eyes for mo-