The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-02-25

make use of them, found that I pos
sessed unusual faculties for curing
ailments of consciousness and reviV-
ing lost personalities by hypnotism.
One day woman called on me. in
company with a little girl.
1.-THE child suffered from some
slight nervous ailment, common
among girls of that period of life
list1essness, 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 sne feeting instant the eyes of
Marion seemed to look back at me.
Could it be anything but hallucina-
tion2 Marion's eyes we're, the most
beautiful I have ever seen in their in
telligence, their gray and liquid soft
ness. Fearful1y I looked again. But
only the sleepy pupils of the ailing
child looked back at me.
I see you do not remember me,
DR.. Brodsky.' said the woman, when
my investigation was ended. tNeverthe-
less, I know you well, and l came to
see and consult you partly out of
interest. Do you not remember Mar
ion Strickland?
81 started inVoluntarily. Yes, that
married; this was a. 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 his!"
9. Her end was curiously sudden,
| poor thing, said the woman in gos-
| siping fashion She died quite une1-
| pectedly, you know
Yes murmured, though had
/ been told nothing.
| We thought that it was nothing
but 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
better than to have doubted that her
/ love could change. That her married
/ life had been neither happy nor I'M
happy 7 had suspected; clearly this
! was not one of those unions that
seem to transcend the limitations of
our mortality, that are not severed
by death And at the end her
thoughts had turned back to me.
Thence forward had new impulse
i Of Joy il my work; from that time,
too, / began to look forward to the
day when much that is hidden from
US will be revealed and death will no
longer sever. That was the begin
ming Of my psychical work
t4The years slipped by and found
me still steadily at work, with an in
creasing amount Of patients and of
reputation. / had sought in vain to
communicate with Marion through all
the recognized mediums Though her
/ inspiration remained with me, once
again her outward memory had grown
weak One evening a young man
called upon me in my consulting room.
81 do not see new PATIENTS in
4 formed him, for at that time I had
already begun to Withdraw from &C.
tive practice in preparation of the
professorship which had been offered
me for the succeeding year. But he
i was insistent. 1t was not for him
self, he said, that he wished my sery-
ices, but for his financee, a girl of 25
Always liable, since childhood, to
nervous attacks Of obscure origin,
these had developed, during the past
three months, into fits Of imbecility
i during which she became almost an
automation and manifested the most
extreme aversion for him. Her
friends and family had even spoken
of the necessity of placing her in
some institution unless she could be
a cured. He happened to have heard
Of me: would assist him?
The young mans earnestness, his
so1icitude for the girl impressed me
and consented to take her case il
hand. To my surprise I found that
my patient was none other than Ethe
Strickland, the girl whom had treate
4 ed some dozen years before. ] looked
long and fear unprofessionally te
discover whether could discern Mar
ions unforgettable expression in the
eyes, but the heavy pupils discern
. Marion's back at me Hstlessly and in
]. dolently. They were not Marion S
As the young woman was at that time
L, in the enjoyment OF normal health
. left instructions that she was to be
brought to my Office Immediately tina
"a crisis occurred and went away.
1T must have been two weeks later
just as I was about to close my office
and go to bed. that a loud peal at thu
a bell startled me. The servants haV
ing retired, I opened it in person, ant
ushered in the young woman It hat
been raining hard and her outer gar