The Washington herald., 1908-05-12

/ leLLef-yeST
1T may be a fraud, for all I lznow-it
probably is; but 1 am willing to know
! more about it. I understand you claim
10 be able to make one man take the con-
sequences Of the es-and-er-dis-
sipations of another?"
The physical consequenees-yes."
That's all that bothers me- The moral
consequences can look after themselves.
Yes, my friend, the moral conse-
quences can look after themselves. Won
Tarsenheim said Il solemnly, looking
right through Vandraken and on beyond
him
We'll. Herr Won Tarsenheim. all you
have to do is TO convince ME OF your abil-
ity 70 do as you say, and l will pay
your price
"An you have to do. my friend. is to
pay me e1.0OO. and I will convince you. T."
But when you have pouched my one
thousand" said Vandraken, anxioUsly
what shall have TO show for it,"
Nothing; nothing whatever"
Il think you ought to make some pre-
liminary explanations do. really"
My terms are in the letter you refer
to-" He rose. You do not like them?
Well I did not invite this interview"
He moved toward the door, as though to
open It.
-Oh. come! I say, don't be so quick!
A thousand pounds
Are nothing TO the kind of man who
would buy my invention. They are Moth
ing to you"
Vandraken took some notes out OF his
pocket. You are right. What's el,000?
Only wanted to be business-like.' He
counted out ten of them. There you
are. Now, then, 80 ahead, and explain
your invention"
Won Tarsenheim looked through the
notes. and stuffed them carelessly into
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, eX-
cited, expecting some miracle; the other
calm, with the calmness of great force
, very convincing. with his slow. certain
gestures a hint OF contemptuous super
iority in his voice and in the irritating
mockery Of his smile,
! You would not be here. Mr.-." He
paused. as though expecting Vandraken
10 supply the name. but the young man
. only laughed ia an embarrassed manner.
, I see you do not wish TO tell me your
= name. That is natural. I say you would
. not be here if you were-what you call
it-skeptical'
: No ] don't think I am skeptical.
r Some things are more improbable than
others-thats the way ! look at IT,"
And the life of the fish, it is not un-
- derst0od by the blackbird So the bird
Z thinks the water is 10 drink, he does not
/ believe it is for FISH 10 live in. because
T ne himself would not breathe In IT, Oh.
il Is hard TO believe in what you cannot
I see OF hear OF touch
4 Damned hard" murmured Vandraken.
4 Yet you viii have 20 do this thing. if
n you believe In my so wonderful invention.
!, All. but l must not say it Is all mine
i 1t was first thought Of by Ormuz, the
, Chaldean, thousands of years ago; but.
|, | alasi IL was not perfect, and that was
a not good for Ormuz. the Chaldean, be-
q cause PtOlemy, King Of Egypt, was
e much disappointed, and put him to
!, death"
d May one inquire where you picked up
!. this fragment of history?"
p "Oh. yes. There were books IN the
= lAlexandrine library, very nice books. but
they were all burned. 1t is curious that
|. whenever knowledge has reached toe
q great a point. destruction has eome-al
a ways, always"
N But
But it is hard to burn so many books
e A few were saved, and four were witt
# my mothers tribe"
: What"
Y Desert gypsy my mother was: my
! father. he was of Austria. And so
D. come to know those four books All very
, interesting, those four books, and witt
p, modern science All, yes electri,
n force is easier controlled than odic force
n II OTmuZ, the Chaldean. had knowledg,
! of electric waves. Ptolemy. the king
3 would have made him vizier. OF hyp
n notism he knew, and the planetary vibra
r. tiOns-it was wonderful what Ormui
Il knew; he had the knowledge Of the Stol
.r omites. But" Then he leant forward
Il and said, with an air Of triumph tha
> was positively human. Il Abdul vol
% Tarsenheim, know all that Ormuz knew
n and more-more-more,'
At 1T all sounds interesting" said Van
IA draken, feebly very interesting" H
ir felt like a thin wire which was beial
OverchaTged.
- And So continued Won Tarsenheim
IN "the thing that Ormuz. the Chaldean
I could not do for PtOlemy, King o
- Egypt, / can do for you; and though yo1
y cannot make me grand vizeT, you shal
N pay me 91O0000. Yes?'
" But what is the process? That's wha
l. 1 want to get at
'Yes. the process. Do you know any
az Jnlng OF RypuOuSlnf
- I have seen people hypnotized-con
founded fools they looked, too"
70 at is lost art-that hypnotism-bu
~ know of 1t what Ormuz the Chaldear
knew, and that is more than any livin
a man. know also where the force come
a from, and the planetary vibrations WhiC
Is govern it. Astrology now-dO you knO'
n anything Of that?'
NJ Nothing whatever.
You have not seen the tide turr
N them"
bt Rather! Of course 1 have"
~ Then you have seen the effect, wit
m your eyes, of a planetary vibration. Bu
ia there are many effects you cannot sc,
5s effects which cannot be brought befor
20 your conscious mind, and they are yer
N many and very strong: so much affectin
or the minds OF men, and yet 10 two peopl
- are susceptible to exactly the same v
- brations, for that is as you are born"
How about twins?"
= Twins? Are they not sensitive to tn
70 emotions one of the other? On, but yer
much. 1 cannot make all this proces
"A clear so shortly, but this / tell yOU
,s There is a certain electric wave I find
: with that wave / change I control tn
80 planetary vibrations of two men: I fus
= them as two metais-I make them NOR
= than tw7ns-much more"
10 Vandraken looked incredulous.
= And this also was known to the Cha
a dean, that each birth of man leaves wha
=, we call an aura somewhere on the un
verse 1t Is like a reflection or shadow
and as the human being changes, S
changes the aura, and every good though
=, that is projected by the human mind
- reflected on it, and then. too, the ba,
man has Iivnd will ],
:, aura be at his death. All, but they mu.
~ be unpleasant things to look at som
~ of those auras.
y Il say" objected Vandraken, you al
u going too fast What. exactly. is a
lA 80 nra ...horo dnas IL Mr-n2