Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-01-26

ing that there is such thing as al.
ternating personality has finally fl
tered into the public mind If You will
remember, you yourself told me tha,
when Miss Blythe was arrested in the
museum she suffered herself to no la6
away as though she were in a coma.
tose condition"
"Yes-yes"
THE fact is. Mr.. Tarrant, that Miss
Blythe the governess is not in the least
the same personality as Miss BLYTHE
the kleptomariac, and has no knowI.
edge of her. She doubtless realizes
that. when these periods of forgetful.
ness come on, she commits actions of
which she has no waking KNOWLEDGE
end it is the impossibility of explain.
ing this to an incredulous world that
has led her to suffer in silence rather
than attempt to vindicate her reputa.
ton. Now. with your permission. |
shall proceed"
Tarrant and I sat down. All thi,
while Miss Blythe had not moved !,
muscle.
Give me the amulet, please" said
Doctor Emmanuel, and Mr.. Tarrant
handed it to him with obvious reiuc-
lance. Had the situation been less
dramatic it would have been a-nusing
to see the intense gaze which the mil
lionaire kept upon the gem.
Helen" said Doctor Emmanuel,
holding up the gem before her, "can
you read the inscription on this?"
NO" she answered in a voice
which seemed disappointingly natural.
ut is in Assyrian cuneiform, is it
not?"
"Oh, yes, you can read it," said the
doctor coaxingly. you are not half
asleep yet. Go to sleep completely.
now"
He stroked her forehead caressingly.
and when he held up the amulet and
asked the question again, it was a to.
tally different voice that answered him
"a woman's voice, but harsh and ma.
sal and strident.
why should read it?" it asked
protestingly.
Read it," said Doctor Emmanuel.
mo, read it in English"-for the voice
had begun to talk in a sort of gibber
ish totally unlike any language that
had ever heard spoken, and bearing a
distant resemblance to what imagine
Chinese must be.
ITO the high priest of Marduk in
Babylon" whined the voice Made for
and donated by Asshur-Tiglat
Lesser, king in Nineveh-"
Paul Tarrant leaped out of his chair.
THAT solves it." he shouted, and
sank down again and stared round him
like man thoroughly bewildered.
Solves what?" asked Doctor I'm
manuel quietly.
THAT word Nineveh, doctor. The
translations read King of Bells slave
and were utterly meaningless. If that
is correct-it must be, but the stone
was so rubbed none of us could de-
cipher it-why, it places the date back
to the thirty-fifth century, B. c., in
stead of the twenty seventh. And that
explains why the old cuneiform was
used by the engraver."
who has this stone?" asked Doctor
Emmanuel, and we all gripped our
seats more tightly at the snarling
monosyllable III"
why did you not deliver it to the
high priest of Marduk?" the doctor
asked.
II did. He would not receive it,"
shrilled the woman on the sofa. ''In-
stead, he sent soldiers to arrest me.
1t is his. He does not know. He"
Her voice ceased, her eyes were
open, and she was clinging desperately
round Doctor Immanuels neck and
deathly pale. She shuddered and
quailed as though in intolerable fear;
and she would have screamed but that
she could not find her voice again.
Then she collapsed, dead weight, in
the doctors arms, and he placed her
in supine posture upon the sofa.
Call your housekeeper and we will
help carry her to her ROOM" said Doc
tor Emmanuel "No,''-for Mr.. Tarrant
was protesting-"it will be all right
now. The strain was too intense for
her; the awakening too sudden, but she
will sleep peacefully and, but for lit
tie nausea tomorrow, she will be quite
herself again. And she will have no
recollection of what has occurred"
II don't want to let the housekeeper
know" Mr.. Tarrant answered. Help
me, doctor, and we will take her up
stairs. I'm glad my wife is not at
home tonight" he added, grimly. "She
mightn't approve of this"
But Mr. Tarrant took good care to
secure and pocket the amulet before
he took Miss Blythe's head and Shout
ders into his arms andsled the way out
of the library. sat there for three or
four minutes, wondering. / could not
quite understand just what had oc-