Putnam patriot., 1911-03-24

stood in the west In India we hear of people being buried and long while afterward resurrected. Ordina- rily persons shake their heads at such stories. but there has been so much testimony as to these strange doings that the feeling has gained ground that there Is something in them. There Is certainly nothing new in them. What these Indians know has been handed down to them through centu- ries.
 During the reign of terror in France a young girl. Marie de Maurier. the daughter of a nobleman, was con demned to death with others of her class whom the revolutionists desired to eliminate. She was expecting to be taken to the guillotine and executed when the door of her cell was opened and a man of swarthy features. with a fez on his head. entered. He lighted a taper he held in his hand. and a strange odor soon pervaded the cell. The girl sat on a pile of straw in a corner. but the man stood with his flee near a window. holding at the same time a vial under his nose. Mile. de Maurier sank down apparently dead. The man took her in his arms and carried her out to the prison dead house. where she was put into q coffin. The coffin was then placed in a cart and driven away in charge of the swarthy man. who before leaving drop ped several gold pieces into the palm of the jailer.
 The body of Mile. de Maurier was carried to the laboratory of a distin- ruished French savant, Professor Chan tan. who received 1t from the swarthy man. Both entered the laboratory with it. and the professor locked the doors. That was the last seen of Marie de Maurier for hundred years. In 1898 Paul Chantan, the great freat-grandSon of Professor Chantan. a young scientist of promise. went to the family vault in the cemetery of Pere Lachaise and, taking down from an upper shelf a casket, had 1t re moved to his laboratory. There he lifted from the coffin the body of a young girl Having laid 1t on a table, he took from his pocket a manuscript and began to read:
 Record of the case of Mile. Marie de Maurier. who was to have been guillo- tined on the 5th of March. l79s. Her jailer was bribed to permit Hyder Cassim. an Indian fakir. to place her in comatose condition. and she. being considered dead. was taken to the laboratory of Professor Antoine Chantan, where the Indian In the presence of Chantan prepared her to lie dormant for an indefinite period. One hundred years after the application of this process let the oldest born lineal de- ascendant of Professor Chantan take the body from the family vault in Pere La 4chaise and determine If 1t can be resuscf- tated under the following instructions. to wit
 Then followed minute instructions. which young Chantan read carefully again and again. Finally. when he had thoroughly familiarized himself with them he began to apply them. Two hours after the commencement of the process Mile. de Maurier show ed faint tinge of redness in the cheeks, and in thirty minutes more the operator noticed pink tinge under the finger nails. Placing a mirror un- der the nostrils. he detected a slight moisture on the glass. Listening for the heartbeat. he discovered that It throbbed very slowly. All these symp- toms gradually gained ground until three hours and fifty minutes after the Ayoung scientist had begun the resus- |citation, when the subject opened her Reyes.
 "Is i: timer" she moaned. Don't excite yourself" said Chan tan. You are in a critical condition. but if you can avoid giving way to any strong emotion you will come out all right"
 But why do I care. since I am to be executed?"
 That matter is past and gone You have been unconscious for a long while. The revolution is accomplished. The republic is established on per manent basis. and there is no longer need for executions" Thank heavenr'
 The professor had prepared lounge 'and. taking the girl in his arms, lifted .her from the table on to it, covering her with an afghan. He noticed that 'the body was quite warm. Have the emigres returned|' asked the girl as soon as she was made com Portable
 Long ago."
 'I wonder if my uncle and my cousins are here"
 To this the young man made no re- ply. Presently he asked her if she had any consciousness whatever before re- Covering her faculties
 "l fancy it could not have been long Before l opened my eyes. The first thing 1 knew was you standing over me saying what you said" blush overspread his features. What did say?
 He was obliged to urge her, but she nnally told him that he had said:
 If I succeed in bringing you back 10 life I will love you forever"
 He had spoken the words believing lthat they were said to a dead person and never dreamed that a living be- Ing heard them He was silent few moments and then said with great feel Ing
 And l will"
 5 He was bending over her as he opoke. Her joy at having been told that she was not to be beheaded, but Instead that this young man. who had brought her from nothingness to life. 1oved her. knew no bounds. She threw Der arms about his neck. # Notwithstanding that Chantan re- Aiprocated the emotion that caused