Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-01-08
cHAPTER xIII.-ContLnued.

ugmHtETlalize after UeCDUllhb NiA"h5I
i'm colOr. The flesh will disappear, ana
you VIII see his skeleton. Thlnk,
think, my brothers, this is the rate
which awaits YOU perhaps soon on go
ing way from here. Think or the va
rioas illnesses and deaths by accidents
which await you. Contemplate the
magic spectacle offered by the Cabaret
du gqueiette and remember that you
are dust and that to lust You must re-
turn. Make wisely this reflection,
which the intoxicated man made 10
another man in Ike condition. put
asleep, And that IS how shall be on
Sunday! While waiting, my brotners
and sisters, for nothingness. look AT
the Standardization of your eontem-
porary, III o please"
THE play of lights. while the man
was talking, began 10 throw y grethIsH
pallor and to make spots at frst trans
parent upon the orbits OF the eyes
then, little by little, the spots seemed
To grow stronger, to blacken, 70 en-
large. The features, lightly picked out,
appeared to change gradually, TO take
ON gray and confused tints, to slowiy
disappear as under a veil, q damp va
por which covered, devoured, thar race,
now unrecognizablel 1t has been said
that the manner i'm which this phenom-
enon was managed was a remarkable
thing. IL is true, for this human body
seemed literally to dissolve before TINS
curious crowd. now become silent ana
frightened. The work of death was
accomplished there publicly, thanks 10
the Illusion of lighting. The tvid man
WIN smiled a few moments before was
moti0nIess. fixed; then, passing
through some singular changes. the
1icsh seemed To TALL from him in
Suddenly the play OF lights made
him disappear from the eyes or the
spectators. and they saw, thanks TO
reflections made by mirrors. only q
skeleton. IL was the world OF specters
and the secret of the tombs revealed
To the crowd by a kind OF scientific
magic lantern.
Bernardet did not desire to wait
longer to striks his blow-this was the
exact moment To do II, the psychology
teal momentl
The eager look of the mar In the
sombrero revealed n deep trouble.
There was In this look something moro
than the curiosity excited by n novel
spectacle. The muscles OF his pale face
twitghed as with physical suffering. IN
his eyes Bernardet read an internal
agony.
"Ahi" thought the police officer.
''The living eye is a book which one
can read as we'll as q dead mans eye.
Upon the stage the play OF lights was
rendering even more sinister the figu-
rant who was giving TO this morbidly
curious crowd the comedy OF death.
One would have now thought IL was
n of those atrocious paintings made
III the studios OF certain Spanish paint
crs in the putridero OF Il Wales Leal.
The flesh. BY Il remarkable scientific
combination of lights. was made TO
seem as If falling off and presented the
horrible appearance OF q corpse In a
siete of decomposition. The ~lugubrious
vision made a very visible shudder pass
over the audience. Then Bernardet,
drawing himself up to his full height
so as 20 get a good view Of the face of
this man so much taller and approach
ing as near TO him as possible-in fact,
so that his elbow and ripper arm
touched the young man's-slowly. de-
1ibeTately dropped one by one these
one words;
That Is about O M. Revere ought
10 be now
And suddenly the young mans face
expressed a sensation of fright. as one
seeH In the face OF a pedestrian who
40 ldenly finds that he is about TO step
n5 an a viper.
Jr how he will be soon.'' added the
ilft.e man, with an amiabla smile.
l~scrnagdet dlssimulatcd under this ami
al lty n intense joy. Holding his
stria and elbow in an apparently care
1tsa. manner close to his neighbor as he
pronounced Royere's nafne Bernardet
IT, his neighbours whole body tremble
and give d very p~erceptible start. Why
had he been so quickly moved by ar
unknown name IL IL had not recalled
10 nls mind some frightful thought?
The man might, OF course, know, as the
public did all the details or the crime;
but. with his strong. energetic face, his
rcsolute look. he did not ppear like a
person who would be troubled by the
recital OF a murder, the description OF a
A.. - q 80, -" Axyav. 49,. tH.< r3xrlfff 80
scene which had just passed before his
eyes In the hall.
~ man of that stamp Is not chicken
hearted" thought Bernardet. mo.
no., Hearing those words evoked the
image OF the dead man. Revere. The
man was not able TO master his vioelnt
emotion. and he trembled as IL under
an electrical discharge. The shudder
had been violent. OF short duration,
however. as If he had mastered his
emotion by his strong will. In his in
voluntary movement he had displayed
nsttagic eloQuence. Bernardet had seen
In the look, In the gesture. In the move
ment of the mans head. something of
trouble. OF doubt, of terror. as In a
flash OF lightning In the darkness OF
night one secs the bottom OF a pool.
Bernardet smilingly said 20 him:
This sight is not a gay one"
NO" the a answered, and he al
so attempted 10 smile.
lie looked lack to the stage, where
the somher play went on.
THAT poo Roverei" Bernardet said.
The other man now looked at Bernar-
Diet as IL to read his thoughts and to
learn what Specification the repetition
uf the same name had. Rernardet sus~
tanned with a naive look this mute In
tcrrogation. He allowed nothing OF his
thoughts to be seen In the clear, child
like depths Of his eyes. He had the air
Of q good man. frightened by a terrible
murder. and who spoke OF the late vic
tim as II he feared for himself. He
waited, hoping that the man would
speak.
In some OF Bernardet's readings he
had come across the magic ruIe appli-
cable TO love, Never go; wait for the
other 70 come che ire,fac venIrel-
applicable also to hate, 10 that duei of
maSnetism between the hunted man
An6 the police spy, and Bernadet wait.
81 for the other TO come.
l~Iasquely. after a silence. while On
the little stage the transformntion vns
stiH going en-, tie man asked in 4 dry
tonts
why a. you speak Il me 81 III Ro-
Bernardet affahly replied II IA
Gauge every one talks OF A II a. tra
nrff.lIity rf the moment ~ q