The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-02-04
The Crime of s'sz1:;;: NO y
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why mott? DR.. Erwin responded
in a sharp tone. "Do you know what
the unhappy man went, urged by a
tragic impulse, to hat portrait which
represented to him all that was left,
concentrating in one image alone all
his life"
Then it Is possible? 1t is possible?' %
repeated.
Il believe it," said the Dane. 1.-The
man is dying. He has only one thought
to go directly to the one who, surviv-
ing him, guarded his secrets and his
life. He seized his portrait: he tore it
from its hook with all his strength: he
~devoured it with his eyes; he drank it
In with a look, If l ma De allowed the
expression. To this picture of the being
whom he loved he spoke. He cried to
him. telling him his last wishes, dictat-
ing to him his thoughts of vengeance.
AT this supreme ome his energy
was increased q hundredfold. / know
not what intensity of life was concern
trated on this image, and gathering all
ms falling forces in a last look the man
who wished to live, the man weakened
by illness, dying, assassinated, put into
that last regard h electric force. the
fire which fixed the image Confused.
no doubt, but recognizable since you
have traced the resemblance) upon the
ret1na. A phantom, IL you wish, which
is reflected in the dead mans eye"
And" repeated Bernardet. who
wished to be perfectly assured in re-
gard to the question, ut is not only the
image of a living being; 1t is, to use
your words, the phantom even of a
painting which was retained on the
retina2'
II do not reply to you, That is pos
slble. 1t Is you who say to me. L have
seen It. And you have seen it in ruth,
and the form, vague though it may be,
the painted figure, permits you to find
IN a passerby the man whose picture
HI Els 1@El
Oh, we'll, doctor" said the little
Bernardet, II shall tell that, but thew
VIII deny 1t. They will say thai it is
impossible"
DR.: Erwin smiled. He seemed to be
looking with his deep blue eyes at some
invisible perspective not bounded by
the walls OF the little room.
one has said" he began, that the
word impossible is not French. 1t
would pc more exact to affirm that it
edge OF the unknowable. The myster-
ious is ap~proachable. One must DENY
nothing a priori: one must believe all
thlngs possible n not only a dream.
as your Stendhal said. Well, the word
is wrong. One ought to say Justly the
exquisite truth, for it is a joy for
0 who search that daily life
Where each movement marks a step
advanced, where the heart beats at
the thought of a rendezvous of love.
An, he is happy who has given his life
to science. He lives in a dream. 1t
IS the poetry in u times of prose.
The dream" continued the young doc
tor as in an ecstasy, while Bernardet
listened, ravished. the dream is
everywhere. 1t is impossible to make
1t tangible: Thought, human thought,
book. An American physician
has asked to be permitted to try an
experiment. upon the Uranium Of a
condemned man. still living. Through
the Uranium he studied the mans
brain. Has not Edison undertaken to
give sight to the blind! 1t is the hour
of miracles. But in order to accom-
plish all these things it is necessary.
as in primitive times. to believe. to
fury will see many others"
"Ah, doctor, DOCTOR cried poor
little Bernardet. much moved. II do
wish to be the ignoramus that
am, the father of a family, who has
mouths to feed, and / beg of you. to
take me as a sweeper in your labora-
tory"
He departed, enthused by the inter
view. Henceforth he could say that
the ignorant one had, by his
seemingly foolish conviction, proved
the reality Of an experiment which
had been abandoned for some years,
and h humble police officer had re-
opened the nearly closed door to crimi-
A~A AAAoeS
A scruple. moreover, came to him.
A doubt, an agony and he wished to
it with M. Ginory.
All the same, with the admirable in
vention he had caused an innocent
to be arrested. This thought
him very uneasy. He had pro-
duced a power which, instead of strik-
ing the guilty, had overthrow an I'M
happy man, and it was this famous dis
of DR.. Bourbon, persisted in by
him, which had resulted in this mis-
take.
1t must be-" he thought, that man
be fallible even in the most mar
velous discoveries. 1t is frightful! It
is perhaps done to make us more pru-
dent--prudent and Oldest"
Doubt now seized him. Must he
stop there in these famous experiments
which ended In this lie? Ought he
abandon all research on a road which
ended in a cul-de-sac? and he on
fded that unhappy scruple to h ex-
arnining magistrate. with whom the
chances of the service had put him in
NJ. Ginory not only was in
terested in strange discoveries, but
he was always indulgent toward the
original little Berrlardet.