Arizona republican., 1912-04-18
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By MRS. WILSON WOODROW

as. the rest or us, Wllly, SalQ Rose, wiping her eyes. He was always so fond of you. Do you remember that dear little way he had of sidling up to you and then putting his paws on your knee and looking up into your face?"
 Willy repressed a shudder He re- membered only too well. It was one of Ahmed's most demoniacal tricks Willy could feel yet the needle thrust of those unbelievably sharp claws.
 We sent at once for MT Darke to take the case" announced Rose, a touch of pride in her voice
 ''Mr Darke!" cried Gaines in sur prise. Who on earth is Mr Darker"
 "Oh, surely you know of Fennell Darke, the great psychological detec- tive" Rose exclaimed Everyone is talking about him. He is doing the most wonderful things all the time Why he is in my sitting-room now, making his investigations. Come and meet him"
 Willy followed her. and she threw open the door into another room dis. closing a man crawling over the floor on his hands and knees, a magnifying glass held close to the ground. He turned quickly as they entered and then rose to his feet. acknowledging Roses introduction with a slight. pre- occupied bow. He was a tall young man, with deep, intense eyes, and had a habit of waving back with one pale slender hand wing of raven hair which fell low over his brow
 I'm getting a good deal of light Miss O'Hara." he remarked. dusting off his trousers. Then he turned to Willy and said with considerable i'm pressiveness. Mysterious case-very considerably more in it than ap- pears on the surface"
 ''Mr. Gaines is so interested in your methods said Rose winningly
 But I fear I shall have to confess a great deal of ignorance about them. ' admitted Willy, smilingly, and when he smiled he was charming. Ordi- narily. he was not what one would call exactly handsome, although he was just as certainly not plain. He was a tall. rather indolent-looking man, with a keen. imperturbable face and the somewhat detached manner of the "looker-on in Vienna" but in spite of this indolent and detached pose, there were very few things which escaped his eyes.
 ITO put it in a nutshell" returned Darke. you may regard me as a rebel One who has revolted at the mechanism of a bungling and barba- rous system. l am. perhaps. fanatic ally intolerant of the ordinary police methods-the arrest on suspicion, the third degree etc. I insist that the detection Of crime and the apprehen- sion of criminals is a science which can rightly be prosecuted only by psychologists and men trained to ac- curate processes of inference and de duction."
 Rose turned a shining gaze upon him, And that Is the way you are going to find Prince Ahmed, isn't it?''
 Believe me, yes.' he said with a grave bow. Now you see, Mr Gaines" leaning against the mantel- piece and tapping his fingers lightly with the magnifying glass. Il have gathered from the maid that she thought. or dreamed, while probably in a half-waking state, that the door from the hall opened and that a man stepped furtiyely across the threshold Of this masculine presence. she can however. give no description beyond the fact that he wore a vivid green necktte."
 "Ernestipe's desire for the lime light" murmureG Willy cynically to Rose. Do you suppose she really had any such dream? You know her
 Rose gave him a reproachful glance, while Darke shook his head with faint, superior smile.
 ''The usual opinion of the lay-ob server" he said, examining his nails with interest But i have reasons to believe that Ernestine was telling the truth And in this connection, lei me recall to you that students Of dream phenomena have repeatedly demonstrated that with the eyes of the sleeper open or only partly closed an actual, visual perception may be carried to the brain. For instance sudden faring of the gas may ere ate the illusion of a lightning flash and one may then dream out the whole terrifying panorama of a trop ical hurricane; or the mere lowering of a curtain may bring out the vision of midnight seas. and one may live through the dreadful experiences oi a shipwreck; again, the ringing of ar alarm clock may be mistaken for the clang of fire-engines, and one may ex perience the entire drama of g mighty conflagretion.
 Now in Ernestine's half-uncon scious state. does 1t not strike you that she may have exchanged comple mentary c0lcrs. or in other words. here Mir Darke spoke slowly ant with due emphasis. keenly watching the effect of his words upon his lis teners, as one who is about to spring sensational surprise, "or in other words" he repeated, that what sht saw as green was really red?' Doubtless. it was matter of grati fication to him that both of his audi tors gave a violent start Rose: lovely eyes were lifted to Willv's witf dismay in their depths, while his helt something more than r"ise-was i indignation? For the mind of eacl immediately reverted 10 all old friend | who also happened to live at the same hotel and whose apartment was jus beyond the one Rose occupied; ant whose flaming scarlet "AScOts" were as much a personal badge as th' white plume of Navarro
 "Oh, MT Darke surely you are no insinuating anything against Senate Wodeburn?" cried Rose, reproof ant