The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-08-09
By Eioralio W'insIow

NC0pyrl&hlY pN DaAts oN~-9 @NN' 49,
AS for me | have no theories about
it whatever, for though am a medical
student such a thing as the death
Of Anje lies out Of our province; we
deal only with things observed and
noted down and approved So II tell
the events as ! saw them that is all
that can be expected, for am neither
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
cadayers lie for day or SO before
they are disturbed.
II have an idea" said Thompson.
for a practical joke on Anje- You
know how Anie has always SCI him.
self up as heart-breaker among the
Iadies?"
| yes"
| 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 good min
ute stared at the body as II had
never seen corpse before and 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 a living body; whittier,
for Il was rather like marble. II was
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 II she were
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?"
Lord" | said. 1T makes you
H think you are looking at piece Of
| statuary and that right arm Is espe-
\ cially perfect"
/ He broke in on my speech
\ II knew you would notice that right
arm Isn't it beautifully turned and
II chiseled? 1t is masterpiece and
II with it we shall play a joke on An1e
HI that win be a masterpiece. You know
Il N-je has always beeL SO internally
II ounceited about his love affairs and
H his strong stomach Now this Is my
\ idea we viii take the white arm and
II nit it in Anje's bed with the hand
Il sticking out from the bed clothes
Il We will get Anie drunk and tnen
n we will let him go to bed and wake
in and find the arm there and ther
II while he is still dizzy reason things
H out for himself. Won't that hit him? h
H There was no opposition from me
II for, like the rest, ! was rather slcE
H of Anie's love tales. Moreover
thought since he had been so melan
HI choly and depressed for tue past weei
Il Of two an uncanny shock like thu
might wake him ONT Of his Droooih'
Il ana make him cheerful again a mel
ry cad is very much more enjoyabl
tslan sad one. Aud then the lae
IT Anje waking UP N bed with "
arm appeaied 10 me
So tfe practical joke gathered hcae
way and III die course oi time Y y
came known to everyone at th
4 oearaing house-that IS 70 every0N
n Sxeept Apie
n On the night 81 which i was % ?
= ncrretrafed took Arie up into Al
room and talked to him al eigi
5eosH. when Thompsoa came up an
= 1i1Aed signifyiag thst the arm Wa
Il ii place Whefeunon the three
NJ IA sailed forth ,nto the nisht
lto As the liquor rose III Anie he p
Pc came communicative bEt he renfaine
nnutterably sad and dreary. He ~
~ 10 longer boasting Of his conduesti
nStead he was reproaching himse
. II because he had played too fast ar
~ loose with some woman
\ ANow it's no use" he kept repea
sp@. "It's too late. It's no use. II
might have given me chance
And then as he got dunker "Sl
didn't have any reason to do wh
she did. treated her right ! nev
was any worse than anybody else.
zoe Ana when he was still farther gol
JdAA he repeated 8ElleM, LltVhs AttiNN' 4
nth though it were a charm.
mo Thompson became very much d
gusted with him.
whats the use2v he said. drawl
ms aside. 1--WE can't set him decel
" under Let's take him home I
in way he is"
ssb So we shifted Anje into cab a.
once more hack at the house,
'aes watched outside his door while he
- az dressed. But there came no cry =
7-St word nor movement Of surprise fr'
Anje's room.
After his light went out we nes
him creeping into bed
We waited little longer but sir
lCT Anh made no sound We climbed aN
to onr bedrooms.
As to Anje's death, no doubt
com have read in the papers the dets
,ws Of that very unsatisfactory ANA
how be was found the next mornil
how the detectives and the pol
rummaged about the house and
neighborhood looking for clews I