Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1918-07-05
"In a jIff,D replied the Briton.

out and Joined us. We went on down
the hall, and Laredo unlocked the
door TO his room. We entered, and
he followed. Find yourselves seats.
senores." he invited, himself crossing
and taking a place on the bed.
Osborne sat down at his side. Dual
took seat in chair. Heffy and Day
ton and / found others.
And then, as by common consent,
we all turned to Semi. In that mo-
ment we all made silent admission to
his leadership. He swept us briefly
with his eyes and opened his lips:
'Let us at the beginning of this
final chapter, sum up the entire causal
element of this affair and arrange the
incidents in their proper sequence be-
fore proceeding to the last step, which
! ter of this nature. Theft in itself is
reprehensible action, but it concerns
merely material substance.
when one accuses another of the
taking of life, he must be careful lest,
by imperiling the life of the one he
accuses, he do an incalculable wrong,
| little less great than that of the one
who has killed. But should he know,
then he should speak that justice may
| be done and the guilty compelled to
pay for the irreparable theft of life,
than which no crime is greater-since
he who takes life sins not only against
man, but against God himself.
Il .lnnII h. II.
cidents as we know them; and if any
of you find flaw in my words do
not hesitate to name it. In the be-
ginning, Professor Matthias Wingarde,
an archeologist, went to Mexico, and
there he met Senior Laredo. In some
learned of a temple jewel and an idol
an image of Quetzal which had been
brought from there to this region and
left in a cliff dwelling, and he deter
mined to find that if he could. That
he succeeded we Snow. He came here
and, with Mr.. Dayton and two guides
went north and recovered the objects
he sought. What happened then?
Gentlemen, you are aware that /
believe in the science of astrology,
and that believe in telepathy as well.
When I first heard of the professors
disappearance from the hotel / made
some calculations which showed his
probable death.
Later, from data furnished me by
his daughter, set up figure for this
year of his life, which confirmed that
suspicion and showed other things,
too. ! do not ask you to accept this
statement, save as events with which
you are familiar or will be shall prove
II. But l assure you of it's truth.
eff one can intercept the thought
waves generated in the murders
brain, one can learn much more of the
actual nature of the crime. One way
to accomplish that purpose is to pro-
duce continual, at least partial con-
centration Of the murderer's brain on
bis deed. SO that 1t constantly would
give off waves dealing with that sub
ject.
"By so centering his mind one could
gradually gather more and more In
formation, not only from his thoughts,
but from the words and acts which
they inspired. This is a psychological
fact known to all physicians and Grim
biologists. DR.. Osborne will tell you
that l am right"
Osborne nodded.
"The association of thought reflex
es is well known to medicine today"
he declared.
Semi Dual smiled. "And the effects
of expression, suppression, doctor?"
Again Osborne nodded in satisfac-
ton.
Sometimes an associated idea will
produce the expression of suppress
ed thought, / believer"
Indeed, yes"
$50 that by remark seemingly In
nocent in itself, another may be made
to reply in way which will strength
en- or weaken suspicion" said Dual.
Nov to continue. The bodies of Pro-
fessor Wingarde and the Indian were
found dead as l might have predicted.
but almost Immediately after there
OCCuIItu COulllCI uelWeeu TIE re-
suits of my calculations and the sur
face seeming in their death.
my calculations had shown that
Wingarde would die from wound in
flicted at the hands of another man,
armed with pointed weapon-in 9TH
er words, that he would die by murder.
Yet, DR.. Osborne's diagnosis was that
both the Indian and he died from
snake-bite. 1t became necessary to
harmonic the two variant opinions"
But you yourself said they died
from snake-bite," Heffy interrupted.
IF forked tongue wouldn't mean
snake"
Dual smiled slightly. you placed
literal interruption on my remark
to Dayton" he replied. "Treachery
has been called by the words "a forked
tongue"
Heffy's hand crashed on his knee.
by granny, that's right. The Indians
say liar has one-a forked tongue,
mean"
Exactly" Dual went on. 81