Sharp County record., 1909-11-12
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By Horatio Wins]ow
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AS for me have no theories about
it whatever for though am medical
student such a thing as the death
of Anie lies out of our province; we
= deal only with things observed and
noted down and approved. So If tell
! the events as | saw them that Is all
! that can be expected, for | am neither
a theory spinner nor student of psy-
/ chical research.
1t began in the laboratories when
/ Thompson called me in to the end
room which we used for typographical
anatomy and where sometimes the
cadavers lie for a day or so before
they are disturbed.
81 have an idea" said Thompson,
"fcr a practical joke on Anic. You
know how Anje has always set him.
self up as a heart-breaker among the
ladies?"
Eyes"
And how he has told of his conquests
until everyone of us is sick Of them
and him? Well, this Is the joke
He threw back cloth from the
bench at his knees. For q good min.
ute | stared at the body as if had
never seen a corpse beforehand for
that matter had never seen one like
this.
In our dissecting rooms we get the
bodies black with preserving fluids
and looking less like modern beings
than Egyptian mummies, But this
was as white as living body; whittier,
for it was rather like marble. 1t was
a girl, not such bad looking girl
in her time, with regular fea-
lures and neither fat nor thin. And
she lay on that bench as If she were
a piece of statuary fresh from the
sculptor's hands,
Suicide" Thompson said, "but they
took her out of the river soon after
she jumped in. What do you think
Of this new preserving process?"
LOIu. Sdlu' ~ uldhC5 yOu
think you are looking at piece Of
statuary and that right arm is espe.
cially perfect"
He broke in on my speech
"I knew you would notice that right
arm. Isn't it beautifully turned and
chiseled? 1t Is masterpiece and
with 1t we shall play joke on Anje
that will be masterpiece, You know
Anje has always been so Internally
conceted about his love affairs and
his strong stomach. Now this is my
idea We will take the white arm and
put It in AMOS bed with the hand
sticking out from the bed clothes,
We will get Anje drunk and then
we will let him go to bed and wake
up and find the arm there and then
while he Is still dizzy reason things
out for himself. Won't that hit him?"
There was no opposition from no,
for, like the rest, was rather sick
Of Anje's love tales. Moreover
thought since he had been 80 melan.
choly and depressed for the past week
or two an uncanny shock like this
might wake him out Of his broodng
and make him cheerful again. A mor
ry cad Is very much more enjoyable
than a sad one Ard then the idea
Of Anje waking up In bed with the
arm appealed to me.
So the practical Joke gathered head
way and In due course Of time II be-
came known to everyone at the
boarding house--that ls, to everyone
except Anje.
On the night on which II was to BE-
perpetrated took Anje up into my
room and talked to him TIL eight
o'clock, when Thompson came up and
winked sgnifying that the arm was
In place, Whereupon the three OF
us sailed forth into the night,
As the liquor rose IN Ante he be-
came communicative but he remained
unutterably sad and dreary, He was
no longer boasting Of his conquests;
kstead he was reproaching himself
because he had played too fast and
loose with some woman,
"Now its no use" he kopt repeat
Ing, ITS too late It's no use, She
might have given me a chance"
And then Ns he got drunkeri "sho
nIdnii haVa nny pennon IN do Whnt