The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-03-23
upon him that I shan recOsni.s =

upon him that I shall recognise ..
once.
"Of course. the success OF the e.
pertinent entirely depends upon each
one Of you carrying out these diroo-
uons faithfully. You viii each b
! quite alone with the automason--no-
| boy VIII be there to see you-and 4
can only trust to your honor TO carry
out what 1 have described. Anyona
who is afraid TO do this had better saV
so and withdraw"
OF course. when the matter was -
put, nobody did withdraw. For thu
most part. indeed. the boys concerned
seemed to enjoy the fun. One by one
they entered the classroom: one bV
one they came back 70 their seats In
ten minutes we had before us a row o.
some fifteen boys all intently gazing
at their own hands, and maDifestly
discovering nothing.
1t was, however, very different when
Chanier came round to investigate for
| himself He bent low over each boys
right hand as il was extended towards
him. and the audience waited eagerly
for the result.
One. two. three. four, i've. six boyn
successfully passed under his scrutiny.
and smiled as ne shook his head AZ
the seventh hand. he paused for a mo-
ment and looked up into the owners
face. saying something IN q low voieo
which was inaudible to W. I'm the
room.
The lad appeared confused ana
turned pale; then. after a hurried
glance round. he nodded his head
Chsnler RaO at once turned TO where
tho headmaster was seated
''Dr. Searson." he said aloud, ~Ow
young friend thinks he would rather
explain our little mystery 70, you prS-
Vately. Perhaps you win sec him n
your study alone"
The audience seemed a little per-
picked and disappointed at this some
no. Id Ia
Of the experiment. and Il required ala
Chambers skill to divert their stten-
ton to his concluding tricks- BIt a.
we filed out Of the schoolrOom and met
DR.. Searson coming from his study.
learnt from him that the automa.0n
had been entirely successful; the pr
loiner OF the birthday gifts was DIS
covered.
The automaton =" said C,hapler
Rao. when had sufficiently expressed
my wonder and curiosity. why.
surely you must see for yourself that
a clockwork thing like that could dis
cover nothing. KholSan Is but the out
ward means adopted TO cover my
methods 1t was 1 who found out
that miserable. dishonest youngster.-
But 1 don't See." I said. still en-
tirely In the dark How could you
possibly know"
Chanler gazed at me with a sort OF
kindly pity.
Consider" said he. ''the working
OF a guilty mind. The innocent lad
rather enjoys the fun Of being sent
into that room 20 shake hands with
an automaton. 'HullOl here's his silly
old doll that is going to tell tales. Wen.
here g0es-he won't get much out OF
met But the guilty7 No
he says TO himself OF course It's all
rot-simply nonsense to suppose that
q thing like that could tell anything
at all. But still-it's as we'll to be on
the safe side; you never know what
these fakirs are really up to. And a.
am quite alone. and the old buffer
will never be any the wiser, I think
I'll just keep my hands of his diabOlI-
cal automatOn altogether
but" ! was beginning
Stay q moment" said Rao. You
know the perfume Of the orphil root1
No? An. we'll to your Western nos4p
I daresay the odor would be hardly
perceptible. But TO the child OF the
East. the least atom Is pungent and
unmiStaSah BILE. The hands OF
KhOkan were smeared over with or
phil Consequently, when I came to
do my little bit Of Dalmistry I was able
In a moment 20 distinguish by the alb
senCe of the perfume the hand which
had not dared To touch my detective
autOmatOn. I gave the owner the
choice between immediate public ex-
pOsure and "a private interview with
the Doctor-and. as you saw, he at
once chose the latter"