Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-11-20
CHAPTER vII-continued

In The Impressions or heat,
OF the blood, of light, on u tissues are
not ca~taiognable, If / may be allowed
the expression. The impression on the
retina Is produced by the rcfraction
which is called ethereal phosphorescent,
and which is almost as difficult TO seize
as to weigh h imponderable. TO
think TO find on the retina a luminous
impression after a certain number of
hours and lays would be, as Vernois
has very we'll said, to think one can
find in the organs of hearing the last
sound which reverberated through
them. euhi Seize the air bubble at the
end of a tube and place ii is a museum
as a curiosity. Is there anything left
of 1t but "A drop OF water which is
burst, while of the fieeting vision or
the passing sound nothing remainsi"
The unfortunate Bernardet suffered
keenly when he heard this. He wished
10 answer. The words came 10 his lips.
All, IL he was only in M. Ginory's place!
The latter, with bowed head, listened
and seemed TO weigh each word as ii
dropped from M. Morin's lips.
Let us reason 1t; but" the professor
went on, since the opthalmoscope does
not show to the oculist on the retina
any of the objects or beings which a
sick mar sees-you understand, not one
of them-how car you think that pho
Biography can find that object or being
on the retina of a dead mans eye?'
He waited for objections from the
examining magistrate, and Bernardet
hoped that M. Ginory would combat
some Of the professors arguments. He
had only to say: What of It? Let us
see. Let us experiment" And Bernar-
Diet had longed for just three words
from him, but he magistrate remained
silent, his e still bent. The police
agent felt with despair his chance Slip
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never, again would he find n like
opportunity to test the experiment.
Suddenly the strfdent tones of DIR. Err
wins voice rang out sharply, like an
electric bell, and Bernardet experienced
n sensation like that OF a sudden I'M
expected illumination.
My fear MASTER he Respectfully
began. Il sa wat home in Denmark a
poor devil picked up dying. half de-
youred by a wolf, and who, when taken
from the very jaws OF the beast, still
retained in the eye a very visible
Image in which one could see the nose
and teeth OF the brute. A vision! I'm
agination, perhaps, But the fact
struck me at the time and we made
a note of it,"
"AndT' questioned M. NORM in a
tone Of raillery.
Bernardet cooked his ear as a dog
does when he hears an unusual sound.
NJ. Ginory looked at this slender young
man with his long blond hair, his eyes
AS blue as the waters OF a lake, his
began, Il saw at home In Denmark a
race pale and wearing the peculiar look
omrno to searchers after the mys-
FERROUS. The students and the others
gathered about their master, remained
rnotionless and listened intentIy as to a
lecture.
And" Or. Irwin went on frigidly.
eff we had found absolutely nothing.
we would at least have kept silent
about an unsuccessful research, II is
useless to say. Think, then, my dear
master, the exterior objects must have
imp>nted themselves on the retina. did
they not, reduced In size, according to
the size OF the place wherein they were
reflected. They appeared there; they
certainly appeared there. There isl
beg your pardon for referring to IL, but
II Is to these others land DIR. Erwin
designated M. Ginory. his registrar,
and Bernardet) there is in the retina
a substance OF red color, the pourpre
retinien, very sensitive to the light.
Upon the deep red of this membrane
objects are seen white. and one can fix
the image. M. Edmond Perrier. profess
SCR In the Museum OF Natural History,
reports (you know Ii better than /, my
dear mastery, In a work on animal an
Atomy n physiology which our stu
dents are all familiar with, that he
made an experiment. After removing
q rabbits eye a living rabbits eye
yes. science is cruel-he placed 1t In a
dark ROOM. SO that he could obtain
upon the retina the Image OF some OBJ
Ject, a window. for instance. and
plunged lit Immediately into a solution
OF alum n prevented the decomposi-
tion OF. the pourpre retinien, and the
window could plainly be seen, fixed on
the eye. In that black chamber which
we have under our eyebrows, i'm the
orbit, is a storehouse, a %storehouse
OF images which are retained. like the
image which the old Danes eye held
OF the VOLTS nose and teeth, and-who
knows2-perhaps it is possible to ask
of dead mans v the secret OF what
1t saw when living
This vas put in more scienti6c
terms by the young Danish doctor. the
substance of what Bernardet believed
possible. The young man had listened
with the attractive sympathy which Is
displayed when anything novel is ex-
planned. Rigid upon the marble slab.
The victim seemed to wait for the re-
suit or the discussion, deaf to ALI the
confused sounds about him, his eye
fixed upon the infinite, upon the un-
movable which he now knew.
It was. however, this insensible body
WtiANi Ad0 GduSSd the OlScuSSfOn of
n was an enigma to savants. What
was the secret of his end, the last word
Of his agony? Who made thar wound
which had ended his life? And. like q
statue lying on its stone couch. the
murdered man seemed to wait. What
they knew not he knew. What they
wished to know he still knew perhaps.
This doubt alone. rooted deep In M.
Ginoryas mind. was enough 20 urge him
to have the experiment tried, and ex-
cnSing himself for his i~nfatuntion le
begged M. NORM to grant permission
10 try the experiment, which some az
the doctors had thought would be sue
cessfuI.
we shall be relieved even IL we do
not succeed, and we can out add orr
defeat to the others"
M Morsn's face still bore it's skep-
ffcai smile. But. after all, the cxamin-
ing magistrate was master OF the Sit
uation. n since young DIR. Erwin
brought the result OF the Denmark ex-
perfmert-~a contribution new In these
rcaeArchrs--to add weight to the mat-
ter the professor requested thar ne
should not be asked 70 lansl himself
10 an experiment which lie declared in
advance would be a perfectly useless
one
There was a Photographic apparatus
al the morgue, as at The. prefecture.
used for anthropometry. Rernardet.
vrnrroVer. had his kodak IN his hani'