The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-05-12

him.
lIe turned around AMI stared at me
in surprise
"Hello, Gorou. what brings YOU
hcre7''
''Wcll TO tell YOU The truth, ! an,
here on a rather queer errand. Come
with me To the cafe at the corner,
where we can tallI Perhaps you can
give me some information.
quarter Of an hour later, when
we we're seated opposite each other, ]
began,
must remain between ourselves. is
this understood?
Perfectly
''The fact is. / IN in bit of fix.
For the last three months ] have been
| Investigating a very difficult case,
without being able TO find the slight,
est clew. Yesterday ] was on tho point
Of giving il up in despair. when ] re-
mcmbered that one of my foreign col
leagues had, through the help of a
medium, obtained some valuable in
formation that put him on the right
| trail, | decided to make final at
tempt, and went to that little restau-
rant, where | hoped TO meet man
who, I know. is we'll versed in these
| matters. Ny man did not turn up;
but. fortunately. ] saw you. and pos
! sibly you may assist me.
"Look here. Gorou.' he cried, with
an excitement such as | should not
have thought was in his nature -
| tween ourselves, | have gone in for
| spritualism. ] have splendid me
dunn for you, a man called BoissIer,
who assists me IN my researches. lie
is now, 7 dare say, waiting for me at
the restaurant. / will bring him
here.'
"Hold hard. Xavier" T cried "I
shall be delighted to ma ke the ac'
quaintauce Of your friend Bolssler
You must, however, remember that 1T
Will never do for me, the chief of the
detective police, to let stranger
know that / have recourse to the oc-
cult science to detect crime. The
comic papers would make fine sport
of ME, Since YOU kindly offer to help
me, only YOU and | must know of IT.
But. If you like, You can introduce
me TO NJ Boissicr under another name,
always supposiDg he does not know me
by sight.
"There is no fear of that. cried
Xavier; "Boissler has been all his
life abroad, and returned to France
only six months ago, I'll fetch him.
4 moment later Xavier came back,
accompanied by cIean.shaVen man
with large face, Ny friend intro
duced me as NJ. Martin from Bor-
dcaux. and ! had the pleasure of shak-
ing NJ Boisster s fat, flabby hand.
! alleged an engagement. and soon
took my leave, after having made an
appointment with Xavier for the fol-
lowing day.
When we met, Xavier Informed me
that Boissier would put himself at my
disposal if 7 wanted to hold any in
tercourse with the other world.
Bolster he added, "is wonder
full chap, | have the greatest conf"
dence in him. and through him you
will, | am sure, arrive at good re"
suits. - Suddenly he turned to me
with the question;
Have YOU heard / am getting mar"
ried3'
"No I have no time to 90 into So
cictv Let me congratulate you. Who
is the lady2'
He remained silent a moment, ran
his fingers through his hair, and re-
marked:
"Her name is Germaine E.. Since
YOU are interested in spiritualism, |
want YOU to make her acquaintance.
You will find her an accomplished girl.
| She is voung, very young-too young
for me-. he added in almost whis-
| per-
/ eyed my friend narrowly and dared
not question him. for I felt / was
head. and as we walked together in
the direction of his house, we did not
exchange word. On reaching his
door / wished him good night, when he
seized my arm and said:
"Come in; | want to talk to you
We went into his smoking room and
his valet had hardly closed the door,
when ne exclaimed:
''Goron. don I go IN for spiritualism! !!
! The human mind cannot stand it. Mine
IS giving way under the strain
And then ! saw in his eyes the
haunted look that had scared his sis
ter.
| put my hand on his shoulder, and
said soothiDgly:
81 see You are fearfully worried,
You know You can trust me.
With his eyes half shut, as if in a
trance, he spoke so rapidly that I had
some trouble to follow him
"Goron, the future has been re-
vealed to me. I have heard voices,
and they told me what would happen,
I will perform great deeds, with the
name is Germaine E. Evil infu-
ences are at work against me; but I
Will escape them. thanks to that WON
an She. too. has heard the same voices
and must obey their injunctions -
Xavier paused moment, wiped the
perspiration from. his forehead, and
continued in ouieter tone.
Were 1t not for these mysterious
commands. ] would never marry that
pirl-In every way unsuited to me.
But 1t is in the decree Of fate. Next
week our bans will be published,
] had been prepared for something
Of that sort; but this was much more
serious than I had expected, and 7 be-
gan to wonder how much villany I
should detect before I came TO the BOT.
tom Of the affair.
To reason with a man apparently
under kind of spell would have been
folly | therefore refrained from com.
mcnt, and said:
81 know of cases where persons
having misunderstood the words of the
:, spirits, have tested the accuracy of
their commands by other means, Sun
c pose VIC, too. make another tcst?''
@ Navier, who had been ncrvouslv pa