The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-05
The Blue Laboratorv1
BY L MEADE and CLIFFORD HA11FAy

alone In the Blue Laboratory yesterday.
did so without suspicion: but when
returned / knew by your face that YOU
had found out something. 1 then laid
trap for you. took you into the Blue
Laboratory again In the evening. | de-
sired my servant To announce DR. Scho-
DcDhauer. but he never really came. |
left the room. and watched you from the
passage. | heard you cry out to that
man and saw you take an impression
of that key. All during today ! kept
you by my side, although ] did not need
your services. | went away to blind you
moro completely ] came back when
enter the laboratory. All has happened
az ] expected: not for an instant did you
deceive me. Now l will tell you my
secret.
"rt is q we'll known fact in. physiology
that In the dark the retina OF come anil
mails displays pigment called visual
in The dark and the eye after death Is
exposed TO mn object In the light. the
image OF this object becomes stamped
on the rctlnn. and can be fixed there by
basis. have further discovered that by
fixing my own gaze for n heightened
tlme on an object and Then going into
dark room and gazing a an exposed pho
tographic plate the object | have been
looking at appears on the negative when
developed. Then | concluded that even
thought itself could be thus photographed.
This is what really takes place. Subiec-
tive impressions of thought cause MOLE
cular changes In the cells Of the brain.
why, then. may these not also be capable
Of decomposing this visual purple and
then giving a distinct impression on a
negative when exposed sufficiently long
TO It's influence? ! have made expert
ments and discovered that such is the
case. In dreams especially this impress
sion becomes terribly vivid. No more
fascinating problem has ever absorbed
a scientist. Ought not my victim con-
graduate himself on suffering In such a
vast cause? Night after night | fastcn
back his eyelids with speCula. and as he
sleeps his eyes are wide open, staring
the dark. This plate IS destined 10 re-
ceive the Impressions made by his
dream. Night after night | make differ
ent experiments. These can be easily
such as cocaine. Indian hemp. opium and
others. The action of these drugs causes
extraordinary dreams. This is my secret.
During the daytime | am merciful.
feed my patient we'll: be is not likely TO
die, although there ls n possibility that
he may become insane through the suf-
ferlngs undergone by his nervous system
Now, would you like 10 see some OF the
develoDei photogra phs7''
human shape; will not listen to
any more
DIR, Chance came close to me. Women
are hypersensitive," he said. You
wished to know I warned you that the
secret was fraught with terror. had
horror, but I see that YOU are distinctly
human. Well. It would Interfere vastly
with my experiments were you 70 pro-
claim my secret to anyone else. Women
even the best Of them, arc not 10 be
trusted with such important matters. 7
have no intention Of having the great
dream OF my life destroyed ny the ca
ltice of girl. I propose, therefore, hav-
ing impaired to you my secret, TO seal Il
forever on your lips by death. In five
minutes You viii die"
Five minutes" I repeated. mechan-
ically. a small clock standing on bench
by my side showed me that In five min
utes more II would be nine o'clock. the
hour when the consul should arrive.
You are really a most interesting
study, Miss Rennicl1." continued the doc
tor 1T Is sad pity that you cannot
devote your life to the science you might
greatly benefit. Give me your hand. 7
want to walk around this dungeon with
YOU"
He stretched out his hand and took
mine. I did not refuse to walk with him
He took me from end to end OF the dis
NAL place. The little clock suddenly