The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-09-24

OF commanding figure and soldierly
bearing. with deep.set eyes. hollow, ca.
daverous cheeks. and mustaohe and
hair an intense blue black. his singu-
lar personality alone had anywhere
and at all times attracted special atten.
ton TO the man. but coupled with this
distinguished personality, and sin.
Cling him out as remarkable In the
highest degree. was the fact that he
lived in duplicate
Thus-if on Monday he arose early.
breakfasted on coffee. toast and eggs,
afterwards retired 10 his rooms TO
occupy himself until noon at hts desk.
then. after partaking OF lunch. quit his
rooms to ramble about the city, giving
aims To the old blind organ woman.
going Up and down particular streets
and through particular quarters. thence
back TO his hotel. TO his dinner. To his
desk after dinner. and finally TO bed
on Tuesday he would go through
precisely the same regime.
On Wednesday he perhaps would
spend the day quite differently. arising
late, going out on horseback for the
entire day. attending the theater at
night. and to bed at midnight or later:
but howsoever he spent Wednesday.
Thursday--or the day following--was
sure TO be a repetition down to the
smallest detail.
Friday would see commenced a new
series of action for Saturday to dupli.
cate
He was the echo--as II were-of
himself. and a consummate echo at
that, for time and time again he had
been watched TO see whether he would
not make some mistake or fail IN his
series OF duplication. but whenever Il
was possible for an act 10 be dupli
Gated he never bad been known 20 fail
In its duplication and, indeed. he
had grown so shrewd In the matter
that he never did on one day what
could not reasonably be duplicated
upon the next--lf that succeeding day
was TO be n duplication of the pre-
ceding one. and not the beginning OF n
new series OF action.
Living his own life In his own re-
served way. cultured and studious.
troubling no one. offending none
doubly liberal In his expenditures and
never pressed for means. steadfast in
his chosen eccentriclty--if such Il were
and in his face and manner no aues
tionlng doubt of himself. perhaps In
time Henry Hobart had been accepted
like any other man. the curious had
ceased TO be curious, and his mysteri
GUS character. without any further or
deeper scrutiny. had become one OF the
mysteries OF human life. had not the
man been suddenly struck down rs by
an invisible hand and the appalling
mystery OF his death heightened ten
fold the mystery OF his life.
On n Tuesday morning. nj rs min.
utes OF ten o'clock. an attendant was
summoned by the call-bell 10 room
g OF the Sumner house. and upon
obeying the call found Henry Hobart
struggling in the throes OF q strange
and unnatural death
The Man Who Did Things Twice.
half dressed standing IN the center
Of his outer room. was battling with
the invisible air about him for breath.
or. as the attendant put II later. Like
he was fghtin' with something that
weren't there"
The hotel was aroused. DR.. Thiel
was hastily summoned from his once
on the next floor. and everything was
done that science could sugEes, or
despair persuade. yet In less than ten
minutes Henry Hobart lay dead on the
noor. within his stilled brain hidden
the profound mystery OF his life. and
still echolng In the death room his
one strangied cry ere death sealed his
blue lips-''To morrow,"
II was q strange case. n questionable
case. a frightful cARe, but beyond all
II proved a baffiinE case. for the police
came. removed the body 10 the morgus.
intimhting death by poison or other
foul play. and examined the rooms and
oysrhauled the possessions Of the dead
man. but who the deceased was. who
his Kindred or what his former rest
dencs. or the cause Of bis death. they
could not discover The scholarly tones
that filleG his shelves bore no sigma
lures or bookmArks. and private pa-
perN % any kind there were none The
autopsy made the same dAy-after.
noon--upon the body OF the deceased
failed 20 dlGcoyef any poison. and Dr.
Thisi's belief thai the man had been
EtrsnEled seemed without support. 81
no foreign substance Or growth 90 any
kidd was found IN the vt1dgipe or air
passages
One ttinr only seemed certain. onp
thing only vas gndi1pufei MAJ
Who DID Things TNiro. With severed
wia5pire and splopEs mafrcd bod
would not duplicate his own death
upon the morrow He had come 10 h.s
death on a Tuesday. = Tuesday with
whirh-had BE- lired-hs woald havH
begun a new course - aciipn 10 D.
duplicated ou "Wednesday Hnt he bad
died. and now !or once Ths Man Who
Did ThinEs Twice would fail in bis &c
cenfririiy Perhaps Tor that his spirIi
would b. troubled
Next morning. While the attendant
Who lad been first on the death scene
81 The previous das vas holding forth
a. length on the tragedy With certain
servant -cronies. the call bell suddenly
rang and the hand Of the call dial