The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-03-16

SHE AND HER HERO S
fruition-you know the text: Ask
and We shall receive'I say,s so many
lives had elapsed that the soul of each
had taken it's OWL course of develop
ment. Field was no more the shadowy
hero of his book than the sweet-na-
tured New England girl was the
Priestess Lota. And this is the situa-
ton which / outlined to you this
ming at the beginning of our conversa-
ton. 1t was because its citizens had
learned too many of natures secrets
that Atlantis disappeared, tradition
tells us. If these two lovers had known
nothing of the truths of reincarnation,
far back in the days when Atlantis
stretched, a mighty continent, where
now the ocean rolls, they would never
have made that vow which, by it's very
nature, pledged itself to it's own full
flment. Their souls would have
passed into the limbo of things, ready
to accept whatever was in store for
them in other births, and therefore
best. But they had flung their self
will into the teeth of eternity and had
thus come together, not with the free
dom of their new lives, but pledged
to fulfil a vow which no longer CORE
sponded to their needs.
There were obviously two courses
before me; either to recreate the At
lantean and the priestess, as we'll as it
could be done, Or to plunge both back
into the fathomless depths of eternity,
where they should both have been.
ern world, have been suicidal. 1 re-
solved to attempt the latter. But it Is
one thing to restore the psychic body
of a forgotten life and quite another to
destroy it. These phantoms have a
personality of their own; they will not
as you or 1. Yet in one respect they
differ from us, because they a only
live over again the episodes of their
past; they are incapable of assimilat.
ing the experiences of this new life
which they usurp.
Il was still thinking out my problem
when l received another visit from
Field. If he had appeared haggard be-
fore, this time he looked like a mad
man. He was unkempt, unshaven, and
gave me the appearance of a nan who
had been on a prolonged debauch.
you've got to do something at
once, DOCTOR he said, sinking down in
to a chair despondently. Cynthia tried
to kill me last night
81 was Mortified and yet not entirely
astonished. I knew that, under the
spell of her past, her normal life ap
peared strange and unreal to her. ]
quieted him and asked him for the par
ticulars.
"It was about two o'clock Field
answered. of a sudden l awoke with
a start out of a profound and happy
sleep. 1 had been SO happy, doctor!
was back again at Salem with Cynthia
in the days of u courtship, before
ever l was impelled to write that
CHASTITY book. l awoke with a start
and sat up. Cynthia was standing al
my side, bending over me, one arm
flung back. l seized it and forced heI
hand open. This is what / found in
side.'
"He pulled from his pocket a SHARP
stone, with a razor-like edge, evident
ly taken from the road. 1t was just
such a stone as is used by the thou
sand in macadamized streets; a flint
keener and harder than a razor blade
1t was a fearful weapon; it would have
mutilated him abominally.
"'She seemed to have been dream
ing. She stared at me as though she
did not understand, and, 1 believe
| since l concealed this stone, that she
has had no remembrance of her at
tempt. But her nerves are all broken
down and she has been lying in a sort
of stupor all the morning.
"This incident decided me. AS you
know, gentlemen, l am the part owner
of a s~anitarium at Rutgers where l re
ceive patients suffering from just such
| obscure nervous disorders as Mrs
Fields. l accompanied Field back to
his home and persuaded his wife
whom | found in a very " con
dition, to be my patient there for a
few days. l took her down the next
morning aud installed her in a com
| Portable suite of rooms under the care
of a private nurse. Then / went back
and ordered Field to meet me at the
station a couple of days later. He die
so and / took him to the sanitarium
| also, but did not let his wife know oil
his arrival.
"The brief rest and the change Of
| scene, above all the separation from
her husband, had immensely improved
the woman's condition. l paid her
! visit in her apartment after dinner and
then asked her whether she would
submit to being hypnotized. She was
reluctant and afraid; in fact" said the
doctor. smiling whimsically. Il must