The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-03-10
MY acquaintance with DR.. Phi

NW prosaically enough. The lit
n tie Greek was in America
asa hrs governments representative
Czs some international congress, l
think of penologists, at Boston, and
ssffer he had withdrawn from it
La disgust he made my house his
HgzdpOzrters while he engaged in
sCrnss special research work. The &C.
SsEzzaiss3ance ripened so rapidly into
EFdenzship, and then into intimacy,
shze wisen the doctor invited me to &C
cszznpazy him to Europe, where he had
anRza engagements to fulfill, | could
maG resist the opportunity. My prac-
tzca WAS almost entirely hospital work,
mn& fwtunately l found no difficulty
Inn oRezining a representative to fill
usE gast during my absence.
$a mzuch to explain how we hap
pHmea tc be in England during the glo-
rfcux summer of 1911. Emmanuel
faund England to his liking, chiefly.
HiAfnik- because medical men there ex-
cssakBnM n more kindly attention to his
fIae0Ries. although fear he made few
.6.xFzwcxtS- Immanuers claim that re-
EMezRnation would be found to solve
.nzcsE Of the problems of abnormal
ns@xzsic states could not be expected
san MnM recruits in century still DOM
flzaesN by Huxley and Haeckel and the
sErsaA xnaterialists. Nowhere, fancy,
cnm ane find more stubborn, out and
&cux dfoctrinaires than among medical
man- But the doctor did not mind.
He went blandly about his way, win
fzing friends, disarming enemies, and,
accidentally, making cures.
when Sir John Carfax invited us to
wpgud n week at his fine old mansion
EE Baackinghamshire we both accepted
w7zh considerable satisfaction. Sir
1dAnfs place was one of the historic
cuungy seats of England. Originally a
fE5oEy. 1T had been confiscated from
9lae ar1er by Henry VIII. and given to
Exzncis Carfax, a shrewd lawyer OF
gEha3 age, for services rendered in con-
unrzxun with that monarch's marriage
ev ANNE Boleyn. From him it had
Wzased down to Sir John, in the direct
Esuss. but never through the immediate
reIr. This Sir John explained to US
zxm hs conveyed US from Great NARROW
nrzxzcn In his automobile.
: IN mentioned to you, Doctor Imman-
ma. xhat my son, my only child, is
sazsmxerously ILL.," he said. Eyes, he's
dyiux. and know it, doctor, and there
Nm MAJ power on earth can save him
szul<sss you" He broke OFF. II know
vuu have accomplished wonderful
czzres.~ he continued. Il can't pr16end
On nexssEe in what you believe, but"
EEere ne ended, for his tongue was
summing away with him, and the blunt
exsunsry gentleman was no metaphysi-
eiaz ar fatterer, either.
1xsut you are willing to stake your
fzzFh against your unbelief," said Doc
srr Emmanuel cheerfully. Good! 1
aasz xo Faith healer, Sir John; believe
<swen the most orthodox Of my oppo-
nenex have never accused me OF any
snze orthodox methods Of practice. MY
sssenw7ea, you understand, are the base
en- which stand to take action. But
Mu aeIieve-why, abuse me as much as
pum please. whether ] succeed or
Gxfz~
WAS sure no one could ever abuse
ono kindly little man as ! saw him ar
sszfng excitedly with Sir John. AS !
Maza said, he disarmed all his enemies.
NAHe. DC was hard to ask q twentieth
,ruueury English gentleman to accept
RzslnEzxnation.
~M yea can save him, doctor" con-
sauued cur host, Il can only say that
van win have my deepest gratitude.
Mnk L fear 1t is hopeless. He VIII Dc
seae East Of the line, and his mother 10
<Ezzx. shall never marry again.
~Why are you so respondent as TO
vzte feasibility Of a cure?" asked I'M
rnznncI -
SSr John looked at our faces search
FnxEv- 1You have never heard OF the
s.zrfax curseT he asked. Well
m~xaxrs &c is regarded as an amusing
swruerstition even in England, among
fssnue who have heard OF it. But
zxsrsu<sE those who know it Is anything
Mue n lest. Doctor. Emmanuel, for
1zeariy four hundred years the nrst-
usurm sou of the Carfaxes has died In
sszsFFdlaood. Arthur is seventeen ne
mzs cutlived them all. But ne, too,
szs,af 20. know it. It was prophesieo
mw fsse last prior, Ignatius. as he STROBE
szszf Of the chapel after his last mass
aE1nEE :.
~TTsose curses are potent things,
1s,x5a Emmanuel. $50 much know.
wney do come true, by reason OF the
ssfrussg subconscious impression which
rffev leave behind. to be transmitted
fHunz generation to generation. OF
suusrre the curse is nothing. But II q
uzau begets son, believing that he
xx5W never grow to manhood. and il he
nuxzx his life upon that theory-why,
n wanerally comes true. But | inter-
xspfed you"
Tho last prior, Ignatius. made this
mrwphecy to Francis Carfax, my an
araknr. somewhere about the year
! E4Es said Sir John Carfax. That
- priory should never descend from
l.4arlher to son through the first-born
= fhe priors should come to Carfax
rsIa and replace the altar cloth upon
v zzar.'