The Washington times., 1919-03-17

await. This atom of radium
was drawn in, carried along. BY the
eirculatory stream. The violent
shock Of your fail localized il in
your brain, at the end of some ves-
sci without an outlet. IS Your skull
has become a photographic appar-
atus. You see with X-rays"
"'But the skeletonsr I cried.
astounded by what 1 heard
the skeletons?
"'Are you ignorant of the irst
elements OF radioscopy% asked the
physician. As they are capable of
penetrating stones. wood. paper,
walls, your gaze can sec nothing in
human beings except their bones.
Oh. my friend he added. enthusias-
tically, you are a unique phenom-
enon, the first man to whom so mar
veIous a faculty has been given"
Am / then condemned to Hive
in a cemetery, Doctor | asked, and
is there no way Of saving me from
this pereptual spectacle OF horror?'
lit will suffice TO place before
your eyes body refractory TO the
N-rRys, such as silver, mercury Or
glass.
THE last word made me start.
Now everything was explained, and
I understood all"
1T was my eyeglasses, IL was the
window Of the cab. it was the panes
OF the janitress' door which had
restored their human form to the
pedestrians. TO the inhabitants OF
the houses, to Marise, to the jani-
trcss but as soon as / no longer
looked at them through this sim
pie, fragile protector, they again
became TO me horrible skeletons
And II, on my awakening. / had
not seen my cousin. my aunt, and
the doctor under this form, through
the bands OF linen which enveloped
my head. IL was because the water
wettinE the congresses on my face
contained salts OF lead. which the
X-rays cannot pass"
Baron Plucke Eazed at the speak
\ or with an amazement which he no
longer attempted to conceal.
Extraordinary as the whole story
to which he had just listened might
be. yet he could not do otherwise
than believe It.
Once more truth was not prob
eblc.
Then, as ne cntreated him to do so,
Lucien Delorme told him the whole
story OF all his aEitated life, from
the day when. arriving In Paris to
consult prince OF science concern
ing his extraordinary case, he had
gone TO Madame ArmeIln's family
boarding house.
He explained how, lying awa1Ce
oil night. thinking sadly OF the
sinEularitv of bis fate, he had seen
behind the wall, as II on a radio
soplc screen. two skeletons enter
the room next TO his own, the taller
having II bullet in his skull, the
shorter man one in his leg, and
stTanSle the old American lady
with a cord which must certainly
be OF steel, since the x-rays had
not passed through #. So, in
spite OF NJ Clamart's increduiity,
lie had witnessed all the details OF
the murder with such precision
that he had believed himself to be
having nigh tmare, and It was onIy
the following morning, on hearing
OF the crime which had been COM
mitted, that he had understood he
had not been dreaming.
He also told him how, after hav-
Ing tried. at his request, to find
the murdeTers OF the Avenue dan
| tin, lie had met, by accident, on the
I day that he came to his house -
inform him that he would give uA
! the commission. COmtc d'AbazOIi-
/ NiSCosa. and perceived, with amaze
/ menl, that the latter carried in tbs
some part Of the skull as Mrs. Tan
keTy's murderer the indeIlble mark