The Tomahawk., 1917-03-22

since I 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, am the part owner
Of sanitarium at Rutgers where re-
ceive patients suffering from just such
obscure nervous disorders as Mrs.
Fields. I accompanied Field back to
his home and persuaded his wife,
whom I found in very nervous con-
dition, to be my patient there for
few days. I took her down the next
morning and installed her in a COM
Portable suite of rooms under the care
of private nurse. Then I went back
and ordered Field to meet me at the
station couple Of days later. He did
so and I took him to the sanitarium
also, but did not let his wife know OF
his arrival.
"The brief rest and the change of
scene, above all the separation from
her husband, had immensely improved
the woman's condition. I paid her
visit in her apartment after dinner and
then asked her whether she would
submit to being hypnot1zed. She was
reluctant and afraid; in fact" said the
doctor, smiling whimsically. II must
confess that was only able to accom-
plish my object gradually, by pretend
ing that it was what you in America
call the Emmanuel Aforementioned
named after myself, think. In other
words, gained her confidence by
quiet conversation, darkened the room,
focused her attention, and then
brought out my glass ball and got her
to stare at it under the belief that she
was crystal-gazing- form OF
hypnotism, of course. In the end she
fell asleep. Then left her and brought
in Field. He knew my plans, and,
skeptical as he was, he was willing
that should try rather than risk the
probability that his wife would become
incurably insane.
II set him in aschair. DO you think
I asked him, that you have enough
confidence in me to sit there, perfectly
still, no matter what happens? It de-
ponds largely upon your ability to do
this whether or not I can effect
cure
"He promised faithfully, and turned
to his wife. She was seated in her
chair, unconscious, exactly as had
ordered her to. 'Lota!' said softly.
"Her lips moved and she murmured
o1,i1nnf fhof fhi0
abnormal personality was in command,
as had expected it to be.
"'Lota,' said to her, what is the
dearest wish of your heart? Is it not
to be rid of that monster who keeps
you from your lover?'
eyes, she answered, nodding her
head and gazing at me blankly. Yes
"'Would you kill him, Lota,' con-
tinued, If you knew that in doing so
you would die also? For your souls
are so subtly bound together that, in
the act of striking the blow, you your
self would die. You would kill your
body to win your souls freedom
my dear Immanuel," interrupted
Tarrant, that sounds to me like jar
gon. Is that sound doctrine"
mo, of course not" answered the
doctor briskly. ut is pure rubbish.
But under hypnotism one believes
whatever the operator says. And it
was my purpose to get Mrs. Field to
kill her husband, in imagination, and,
in so doing, to kill herself-also in
imagination. As I said, the phantom
personality that possessed her could
only live over again the episodes Of
the past. Mrs. Field had already tried
to end her husbands life in the same
manner as the priest had destroyed it,
ten thousand years before-with flint
knife. Now, If could get her to be-
lieve that the same climax had &C.
CURED again, both Lota and the At
lantean would be blotted out at a blow
and Cynthia would come to the surface
forever. Do you understand"
Tarrant- nodded, half skepticaily,
and Emmanuel continued:
eyes she answered. 7 would kill
him If could, even if died too
Then take this flint knife, ! said.