The Washington herald., 1915-08-01

P4S'HAe- OF instance, here
/ nave picture which will show Won
living body in all its moving details"
On the screen before US was nroiac+sd
a huge shadowgraph of chest and an
oomen. We could see the vertebrae or
the spinal column, the ribs. and the
various organs
Here. you see. are the lungs in slow
or rapid respiration. There is the
lhythrnlcaily beating heart. distinctly
P ,'s IN perfect outline. There is the
iiNer' moving up and down with the die-
phrasm. the intestines. and the e-op,acb
You can see the bones moving with the
ilmos. as well as the inner visceral life
All that is hidden to the eve by the flesh
Is now made visible in striking manner"
never have l seen an audience at the
movies so thrilled as We were now as
Kennedy swayed our interest at his will
Kennedy placed another film in the
holder.
You are now looking into the body o.
denly
We leaned forward eagerly. Mrs.
Phelps gave a half.suppressed gasp.
what was the secret hidden IN it7
Ihere was the stomach. a curved sack
something like a bagpipe or 2 badly
made boot. with a tiny canal AZ the tos
connecting it with the small intestine.
Ihere were the heart and lunss
nave rendered the stomach visible"
resumed Kennedy. made it metallic
so to speak. by injecting a solution ~
bismuth in buttermi!k. the usual noatbod
by which it becomes more impervious To
the H-rays and hence darker in the sl,is-
graph. took these pictures nor AT thA
rale OF fourteen or so a second like ths
others. out at intervals of a few seconds
l did that so that. when I run them off
get a sort OF compressed moving pic
ture- What you see in Il short space of
time actually took much longer to occur.
could have either kind of picture. bur
l prefer the latter
For. you will notice that tbe-e is
movement hereof the heart, of the
lungs. of the stomach-faint. in,percer-
tble under ordinary circumstances. but
nevertheless. movement
He was pointing at the lungs a sin
gle peristalic contraction takes place nor
maliy in very few seconds Here II
taxes minutes. And the stomach Notice
what the bisnluth mixture shows There
is very SLOW series of regular wave
contractions from the fundus to the
rylorus. Ordinarily one wave takes ten
seconds to traverse it: here i is so slow
as almost to be unnoticed''
what was the implication Of his start
ing. almost gruesome discovery I saw
1t clearly. yet hung on his words, afraid
to admit even to myself the logical in
depreciation of what I saw
Reconstruct the case" continued
Craig eXcitedly Mr.. PHELPS ALWAYS
bon vivant and now so situated by mar
rage that he must be So comes back to
America to find his personal fortune
gone.
What was left? He did as many have
done He took out a new large policy on
his life. How was he to profit hv it,
others have committed suicide have died
10 win Cases are common now where
men have ended their lives under such
circumstances by swa allowing bichIoride
of mercury tablets, a favorite method. it
seems. lately
But Phelps did not want to die TO
win. Life was too sweet to him. He
mad another scheme" Kennedy dropped
his voice.
one of the most fascinating problems
in speculation as to the future OF the
race under the influence of science is
that of SUSPENDED animation. In the
trance the body functions are so slowed
as to simulate death. You have heard
OF the Indian fakirs who bury themselves
alive and are dug up days later? You
have doubted it. But there is nothing
in it.
What the Indian fakir does in a cata-
leptiC condition may he duplicated II is
not incredible that they may possess
some vegetable extract by which they
perform their as yet unexplained feats Of
prolonged living burial.
Phelps had Travelled extensively. In
Siberia he must undoubtedly have heard
of the Buriats, a tribe of natives who
hibernate. almost like the animals, dur
ing the winters, suCcumhing to a long
sleep known as the Ieshka.' He must
have heard OF the experiments Of Prof
Bakhmetief. who studied the Ruriats
and found that they subsisted on foods
rich in glycoSen. a substance in the liver
which science has discovered makes pos-
sible life during suspended animation
He must have heard of 'anabiose' as tho
famous Russian calls It. by which con-
seriousness can b. totally removed and
respiration and digestion cease almost
'But-the body-is gone some one in
terrupted I turned II was Dana
Phelps now leaning forward in wide
eyed excitement
Yes" exclaimed Craig. Time was
passing rapidly. The insurance had not
been paid. He had expected to be re-
vived and to disappear with Anginette
Phelps long before this. Should the con-
of Phelps watt They did not
dare. To wait longer might be to sacrf-
fce him. if indeed they had not taken a
long chance already. Besides you vour-
self had your suspicious and had written
the insurance company limiting at muir
der"
Dana nodded. involuntarilv corfs=sing.
You were watching them. as well as
the insurance investigator. Mr. Andrews.
II was an awful dilemma What was TO
he done? He must be resusciated at any
risk
"Ah-an idea Rifle the crave-th7t
was the way to solve it. That would
still leave ii possible to collect the in
surance. too The blackmail letter about
the S5.0h0 was only blind. to lay on the
mythical Black Hand the blame for the
dissertation. Brought into light. humid
ty. and warmth. the body would recover
and the life uncttons re-
sumo their normal state after the ana
oiotic coma into which Phelps had
rugged himself.
But the very first night the supposed
yhouls were discovered. Dana Phelps.
already suspicious regarding the death
II his brother. wondering at the lack of
sentiment which Mrs. Phelps showed.
since she felt that her husband was not
-eally dead-Dana was there. His sus-
oicions were confirmed. he thought Mon
ague had been. in reality, murdered. and
MS murderers were now making away
with the evidence. He fought with the
yhouls. yet apparently. in the darkness.
ne did not discover their identy. The
struggle was bitter. but they were two
% one. Dana was bitten by one of them
Here are the marks OF teeth-teeth-of a