River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-05-27
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Then made up my mind. Arranging
all my affairs so that I could start
abroad at once, where l intended hav-
| transferred a substantial sum to my
teacher to help on the cause, and then,
though I hated above everything else
in the world to do it, yet felt that
must, I silenced the villain forever"
The lawyer, whose face had twisted
itself into an expression of the most
ludricous amazement as the story pro-
crossed, again started up with a cry of
warning to the speaker not to commit
himself. But DR.. Furnivall, with the
delighted smile of the scientist who
suddenly becomes sure of the success
into his chair, taking care at the same
time not to release his subject from
his gaze.
''Sit still" he said, softly, until we
see the outcome of this beautiful idea
gone mad. Proceed, Mr.. Banning"
why, that is about all, think" he
said, Except the fact that an oppor-
tunity for concealing myself until the
time of sailing most singularly pre-
sented itself, and / seized it. / sent
a dead man to the hospital in my
name, in order to throw investigation
off the track, and gave Ring thou
sand dollars for hiding me. When /
found that / was discovered ! prom
Used him as much more to say he was
holding me against my will. For to
admit that / was concealing myself
would amount to a confession of the
homicide 1t was | who knocked the
officer down, so that Ring might run.
I suppose I must suffer the penalty
of the act, though that will be hor-
rible injustice, considering the helm
GUS practices of that"
Zone moment" interpolated DR..
Furnivall, suavely; what means did
you employ, Mr.. Banning, in the TAX
ing of this mans life?"
what means?" he repeated, in
wonder. 'Why, telepathy, of course.
What other means are there? All is
mind"
At this declaration the lawyer sat
a moment in silence, a look of puz-
zleme~t struggling with the horror
in his face, while DR.. Furnivall, having
withdrawn his eyes from Banntngs,
regarded him whimsically. Suddenly
the lawyers brow cleared. Jumping
up he worked the Doctors hand like
a pump-handle.
"Great heavensl" he shouted. "Who
would believe it? Why, saw Par
menter myself this morning, and he
was as well as ever"
Certainly. Without doubt he
scarcely knows there's such a person
in existence as our friend here, who is
merely self-hypnotized. Put him in
a good sanitarium for a while, that
will fix him physically. Then give him
a thorough course of real philosophy,
from Plato to Emerson. That will fix
him nentally-if anything will"
What seemed the strangest thing
of the whole strange matter 20 the
lawyer was the fact that when DIR.
Furnivall, who was well acquainted
with the druggist Parmenter, brought
him to the house and introduced him
to Banning, the young man neither
showed surprise nor would admit that
his telepathic command to him to
make away with himself had not been
successful. Apparently thoroughly un-
able to realize that his thought-mes-
sages had failed to reach their object,
he seemed to hold double conscious
ness of the druggist while on all
other matters he was perfectly sane
like a man knotted up with rheuma-
tism who declares himself cured. To
him Parmenter was dead,
'I don't understand it, don't un.
derstand it," muttered Randall
"And you never will-until you I'M
derstand the human mind, its cause
and what it is" said DR.. Furnivail
''And that consummation is doubtless
removed some distance into the fu-
ture for us ALL
Copyright, 1909 by w. G. Chapman.)
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