Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-05-26

ability to do as you say, and will pay
your price"
"All you have to do, my friend, is
to pay me one thousand pounds, and
l will convince you.'
But when you have pouched my
one thousand said Vandraken, anxi-
ously, "wnat shall I have to show for
it,"
Nothing; nothing whatever"
81 think you ought to make some
preliminary explanations - l do,
really
MY terms are in the letter you
refer to-" He rose. "You do not like
them? Well. did not invite this in
terview." He moved towards the
door. as though to open it.
"Oh, come! l say, don't be so
quick! A thousand pounds"
care nothing to the kind Of man
who would buy my invention. They
are nothing to you"
his pocket. "You are right. What's
thousand pounds? Only wanted to
be business-hke." He counted out ten
of them. There you are. Now, then,
go ahead, and explain your invention"
Won Tarsenheim looked through the
notes, and stuffed them carelessly in
to his trousers pocket. Good. We
can now talk. Draw your chair to the
table,"
The two men faced each other
across that table, the one young,
eager, excited, expecting some mir
acle; the other calm, with the calm
ness of great force, very convincing,
with his slow, certain gestures hint
of contemptuous superiority in his
voice and In the irritating mockery OF
his smile.
"You would not be here, Mr.-"
He paused, as though expecting Van
draken to supply the name, but the
young man only laughed in an en-
barrassed manner. 81 see you do not
wish to tell me your name That is
natural. 1 say you would not be here
if you were-what you call it-sceptl-
CAL"
"No. I don't think am scepticaI.
Some things are more improbable than
others-that's the way look at it,
"And the life of the fish, it is no,
understood by the blackbird So the
bird thinks theh water is to drink; he
does not believe it is for fish to live
in, because he himself would nov
breathe in it, Oh, it is hard to be.
lieve in what you cannot see or hear
or touch"
Damned hard" murmured Van
draken.
"Yet you will have to do this thing,
If you believe in my wonderful in.
vention. All, but I must not say 1t is
all mine. It was first thought of by
Ormuz, the Chaldean, thousands OF
years ago; but, alas! it was not per.
| feet, anu that was no, gooc ror w
muz, the Chaldean, because Ptolemy
King of Egypt. was much disappointed
and put him to DEATH
MAY one inquire where you picked
up this fragment of history?"
"Oh, yes. There were books in the
Alexandrine library, very nice books
but they were all burnt. 1t is curious
that whenever knowledge has reached
to. great point, destruction has
COMMUNICATIONS"
But"
"But it is hard to burn so many
books. A few were saved, four were
with my mothers tribe
"What-'
desert gypsy my mother was; my
father, he was of Austria. And so ]
come to know those four books. All
very interesting, those four books, and
with modern science All, yes, cleo
trio force is easier controlled thar
odic force. If Ormuz, the Chaldean
had knowledge of electric waves
Ptolemy, the king, would have made
him Vizier. Of hypnotism he knew
and the planetary vibrations-it was
wonderful what Ormuz knew; he had
the knowledge of the Stolomites. But
=" Then he leant forward, and
said, with an air of triumph that was
positively human. II, Abdul Won Tar
senheim, know all that Ormuz knew
and more-more-more
ut all sounds interesting" sale
Vandraken, feebly, very interesting
He felt like thin wire which was
being overcharged.
"And So" continued Won larsen
helm, "the thing that Ormuz, the
Chaldean, could not do for Ptolemy
King of Egypt, can do for you; ant
though you cannot make me Grand
Vizier, you shall pay me one hundred
thousands pound. Yes?"
But what is the process? That.
what I want to get att
Eyes, the process. Do you know any
thing of hypnotism?"
81 have seen people hypnotised-
COMPOUNDED fools they looked, too"
ut is lost art-that hypnotism-
but know Of it what Ormuz, thu
Chaldean, knew, and that is more thai
any living man. know also where thu
force comes from, and the planetar.
vibrations which govern 1t. Astrolog.
now-do you know anything of that?
Nothing whatever"
"You have not seen the tide turf
them"
"Rather! OF course have.'
"Then you have seen the effect
with your eyes, Of planetary vibrs
ton. But there are many effects 20
cannot see, effects which cannot b
brought before your conscious mind
and they are very many and yer
strong; so much susceptible to e1
} actly the same vibrations, for that j
as you are born.'
"How about twins?"