Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-03-03

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country, so that II was no longer con-
sidered the sign of charlatan to
make use of them, found that pos
sessed unusual faculties for curing |
ailments Of consciousness and reviv-
ing lost personalities by hypnotism. |
One day a woman called on me, in |
company with little girl.
THE child suffered from some
slight nervous ailment, common
among girls Of that period of life |
listlessness, blue studies" as the |
laity call fits Of abstraction. and nerv- |
BUSINESS. / prescribed some child's |
remedy. But when / came to look in |
| to her pupils for the examination, for |
| just one fieeting instant the eyes OF
Marion seemed to look back at me. |
| Could 1t be anything but hallucina-
ton? Marion's eyes were the most
beautiful have ever seen in their In
telligence. their gray and liquid soft
ness. Fearfully looked again But
only the sleepy pupils of tie alling
child looked back at me.
81 see you do not remember me,
DR.. Brodsky,' said the woman, when
my investigation was ended. Neyerthe-
less, know you well, and came to
see and consult you partly out of
interest Do you not remember Mar
ion Strickland?
II started Involuntary: Yes, that
was the name of the man whom she
married; this was Mrs. Strickland
who had brought the child to me. She
was the second wife of Marion's hus-
band, and this was her daughter. My
heart leaped in my throat. Thank
God, in this new marriage he had for
gotten Marion; at last / might now
have the right once more to turn my
thoughts upon her; she was as much
mine as hist"
"Her end was curiously sudden,
poor thing said the woman in gos-
. siping fashion. She died quite unex-
pected.y, you know
"Yes, | murmured, though / had
been told nothing.
1--WE thought that il was nothing
but a congested chill until she died
In Florida. Strangely, too, her last
words seemed to be about you. We
fancied that she tried to leave some
message for you, but we could not
understand her. 1t was some phase
of the delirium, suppose
"A new phase of my life opened up
on that day Marion had thought of
me at the end; then she had always
!. loved me. / might have known her
| hs.+o- 49,. e. have doubted that hor
love could change. That her married
/, life had been neither happy nor I'M
: happy / had suspected; clearly this
was not one of those unions that
seem to transcend the limitations of
our mortality, that are not severed
l. by death And at the end her
thoughts had turned back to me
Thence forward ! had a new impulse
: of joy in my work; from that time
g too, | began to look forward to the
e day when much that is hidden from
L Us will be revealed and death viii nc
d longer sever. That was the begin
ming of my psychical work.
u "The years slipped by and found
l me still steadily at work, with an in
IL creasing amount of patients and Of
y reputation. l had sought in. vain tC
communicate with Marion through al
4 the recognized mediums. Though hel
inspiration remained with me, once
again her outward memory had grown
L weak. One evening a young mar
called upon me in my consulting room
II 81 do not see new patients l in
formed him, for at that time I hat
already begun to withdraw from &C
tive practice in preparation of the
professorship which had been Offered
II me for the succeeding year. But hi
was insistent 1t was not for him
self, he said, that he wished my serv
ices, but for his fnancee, a girl of rs
Always liable. since childhood. Il
nervous attacks of obscure origin
these had developed, during the pas
1 three months, into fits of imbecility
during which she became almost al
automation and manifested the mos
extreme aversion for him. He
friends and family had even Spoken
of the necessity of placing her il
some institution unless she could b.
cured. He happened to have hear
of me; would I assist him?
"The young mans earnestness. hi
solicitude for the girl impressed me
and l consented to take her case i
hand To my surprise i found tina
my patient was none other than Ethe
Strickland. the girl whom had treatf
v. ed some dozen years before locke
"a long and l fear unprofessionally {
of discover whether could discern MAJ
of ions unforgettable expression in tn
r. eyes, but the heavy pupils discer
or Marion's back at me listlessly and II
or dolently. They were not MarionI
AS the young woman was at that tim
is in the enjoyment of normal health
nj left instructions that she was to
". brought to my Office Immediately tina
ST crisis occurred and went away.
ng ut must have been two weeks late
nd Just as | was about to close my offic
sr. and go to bed, that loud peal at tn
ed bell startled me. The servants ha'
ny ing retired, opened it in person, an
he ushered in the young woman 1t ha
In been raining hard and her outer ga