El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-10
The Herald's Daily
Short Story

! Wnlch -FOUR persons were waiting, three
/ women and a man The servants told
/ US the doctor was in the midst Of an
] operation but would be with us
4 looked at the people who were
/ waiting. Two OF them undoubtedly
I were patients. One was a man about
] +u, evidently WOrIingman, while the
/ other was a girl Of perhaps p. appa-
I renLy chambermaid. Both wore
I black bandages. The Workingman was
/ accompanied by his wife, the chamber
I maid Dy her sister
Ny friend and I were sitting on a
I soIa looking at some Illustrated pa
pers, when we suddenly heard a ter
/ rlDls cry from the next room. The two
] patients shuddered and we looked al
Z one another and trembIed.
AFTER while Daurimier whispered
/ TO me; Did you hear that? It was
/ terrible
i did not answer and shrugged nv
shoulders, when there was another CRY
a long piercing scream which frOze the
blood in our veins. It was followed by
a noise as Of chair being upset A
snort struggle. door was opened
steps in the corridor, cries and curses
Oh, you scOundreL Help. Oh, God.
I cannot stand this
Then came the calm voice OF Ma
lortic-
Calm yourself. It is for your own
good Calm yourself
I'VE arose pale with horror The
/ two patients instinctively raised their
bandages, as If they had still the use
Of their eyes and we saw only two
. deep red holes where their eyes should
have been.
The door was thrown open and a
man. whose clothing was torn and COW
cred with blood entered, followed by
the doctor whose hands were dripping
with blood.
The man rushed towards US.
Help me. He IS insane I tell you.
II 70 zrr1# nrF 1su-@ ~.
complaint and he has cut my one eve
out. He is mad, raving madr
The doctor calmly walked UP TO US
and said;
" Don't listen to him. He does not
understand that it was for his own
good
Suddenly the doctor burst out into
q mad laugh which removed our last
doubt.
" He wanted to keep his eyes he
roared. What a foolish idea To be
able TO see without eyes is my great
wonderful discovery. The inner light
The inner light gentlemen. How should
the poor ignorant man be able to un-
derstand that2 Don't listen to him
We understood now that DR.. Ma
lOrtic had gone insane.
II am still unable to understand how
we succeeded in overpOwering the mad
man and locking him up in his office
until the ianitOr brought the police Tt
was the most dreadful moment Of my
life. Your Honor.
yes the doctor was mad. Overwcrlz
had slowly broken down his wonder
full intellect and thus he had made his
wonderful discovery of the inner light.
Fortunately. the patients we saw were
his only victims The FIRST two poor
ignorant creatures, who were really
suffering from catars cts. he had OPP
Grated upon with his usual skilful
light hand. removing both their eyes
instead Of curing them, however,
whereupon he ordered them TO wear
black bandages to hide the wounds.
"The last patient, who had consulted
him for a slight cataract, had been
warned of his danger, though unfortu-
nately too late, by words dropped by
the ocUlist during the painful opera
ton. After a terrific struggle with the
mailman he had succeeded in saving
his one eye. The other was gone for
ever.
"This is all I know about this hor-
rible affair, Your Honor"