| Show abie he urinate fromam i E achievements of 1 ivan an brodsky lodsky aph tv I 1 pasi in n who e investigations into psychic p uchic chic IDE phenomena h en enabled him to cure spin spiritual diseases ed ard u to ex c orcie evil spirits from the bodies of their victims un D 1 1 sf A B by y H al EGBERT A er IW IM by W U loper t atin in areat the tv 0 years that tha I 1 lid hid acted as sec H yi to dr ivan brodsky as pa fy 1 doting him in his chicag chical experiments I 1 had been enabled ambled to build up rn an active medical practice of in mv own onn my duties were light often the doe doc tor for did not cill call upon in m semens s for two or three weeks together more ind and more had bad he done so BO of recent months and enguall en duall the conviction sure although antul the was borne in upon me that ehlt the das of our association were nere HUM bared although in years brodsly lived ined through the ex c of three ordinary men his early revolutionary caicea in poland ills his struggles in emerica menca at first for the mere necessities of life aft afterward erNard tor for success the dedication of his career to the solution of chi cat cal problems ins his satiated him with knitli worldly experiences ile he wis un ain married ills his ties liv is lie he had told me upon the veiled shore of eternity I 1 felt that lifo life held nothing further for him death he slid said to me once Is no result of ph physical ical so wonderful a machine Is the biroan body that there exists no reison reason it at all ih it il should not go on forever hat kills is the satiation with nith earth 13 1 experiences that comes to us it is the longing of the soul goul for its renting place where it stores up ind absorbs all the results of its cartha achieve ants until it il la is reada read to renew them in some froah incarnation nod nd sou are aou ou sail I 1 yen ven aured to ask not with inith the world he answered dut but with mv in own oin personality ves es I 1 am tired of ivan these incarnations ire the merest halting places in the soul souls s long pilgrimage I 1 would tile to take up mv work afresh but in a different boda bod so ill it I 1 might forget brodsly x with ith his hopes and longinas longin on aings gings ss ind and disappointments and fice face the world with the fresh an and fifth of i a child but tint that is annihilation I 1 cried all 11 the of immortality that thai arp are the hopr hope of the world the desio desi o for continued po personal ronal existence ei stence after death are arc all listless by no means the doctor ins ans x ered the of at ter the change called death it re mains g 0 0 long 13 it is needed rein carnation cai nation is riot not fulfilled until the soul has grown tired of its remembrances and descends after thousand thou bears of if dreams to gun gain new s and then though it puts off the old personality forced the results of its acts remain to mod it if its now new life shadoe 3 kemem ll 11 bances ances nit flit through the brain old arc encountered besides beside in the end cn thing Is remembered for tho thoe e who ilici wish nish continued per son emmlit alit there is a haapla of rest where every dreim dream arid and hole hoi c com true but as for in self I 1 confes on fes it if only I 1 could start life again aarl aar tike take up ma m work vork in a new nenn body I 1 should bp be infinitely content nor will this be long I 1 behe beliech c I 1 knew ahne anat lie he alluded to his heart which aich was inas gom so chat ni affected feted bet et tho the danger vas v as not imminent nor to become so for niana man beals eais to conle come at am rate I 1 shall be really ready to ans er the call when it comes said the doctor ile he walk balki d oci to his desk and unlocked a drav er cr here Is a sealed idler that blut I 1 haie bane left aou ou ile he said lifter ni death sou jou vill v ill open it I 1 wondered even een then vii v h lie lid did riot not lock the driver dar er I 1 remembered this comer come ration the more diore vividly ivill in the light of suase quent events event it must have hane apon a lit tle tie more than a acl week liter later when he sent for ml me 1 I am resol cd to under tike an all cx e he laid aid more difficult than any that I 1 have haie ever attempted it has been done before vet ct it Is arduous and uncertain lou ou have beard of the indian fakira fakirs who actu ally pass over the borderland bord erlind of death allowing to be burled buried in a grave on which nhi b the grass sprouts only to be reil revived icil after a period of months aou ou nill not attempt such an ex perl ment as a that I 1 cried vo 0 ans acied the doctor it 1 would uld b bo e senseless to attempt so 0 o fool ish an experiment without grave rea rca son I 1 am planning one somewhat analogous anilo gous I 1 intend to pass through tile the gates of death for the siko sako ot rf giang back to one nho has apen deprived of it his inheritance of the soul 1 ou oil mean ohp imbecile I 1 cried suddenly Budden lj understanding ies cs ans answered the doctor I 1 hope that hat this will succeed but if in own deith death be the result at least the last act of my life hill have h TC been to some frood purpose and I 1 would not dissuade him from his intention among amone the dozen or more inmates of dr brodsky s home born he be maintained out of his onn pocket ws an Im imbecile brelle orphin orphan some seven veir reif of af aze aee this child had bad never acer exhibited the slightest sign of in telli gence he lived i purel pure egera I 1 the die existence ind had never learned to crawl to utter a word vord ile ho did not even losness 1 assess the common animal fac ac alty of recognizing one person from another As there existed no ent cause for this detect defect no deformity of the head or boda bod ind and the vital itil functions being in perfect condition ganv theorlis bid been adian advanced ced as to the cause of so singular an acorn aly dr Brod sl after studying stud ing the child for mana man months had finally his own onn conclusions it is on one of 0 those rare cases cages lie he said gold in which the soul wis not boin into the bod it remains shut out is as sou cm cin imagine shut out of 3 our boti houe botie e doubtless it is abner ing in close proximity to the mortal form connected as it must be bi tile the et ethereal bereal ligatures that bind it to the spinal cord in this condition it is practical pi ic deprived of its existence upon either of the planes it Is earth bound and spirit bound and there 13 onla one remedy some other dalsem bodied soul foul must assist asit it it Is nn ml plan pl in to pass out of the bod temp temporal orar ih and to compel it to incarcerate inc itself and it if you cannot return I 1 cried I 1 shill tk ak sour assistance issi in this mattei the doctor answered I 1 shall give you careful instructions which you aill ft ill fulfill to the letter it if af aar r the lapse of a certain time you find thit that these attempts tempts it are fruitless wu iou will nill break open the letter which I 1 have left for sou in the bureau dia er and reid read it I 1 cin can hardia arll bow this project affected me ine in vain I 1 pointed out to the doctor the inexpediency ine biorn a purely point of ale lew of risking his own life for the sal gal e c of nt gling intelligence to the imbecile but mi words nere mere unheeded 1 I felt that in until this was as to be our last experiment that it amounted almost to premeditated suicide I 1 refused to participate in it NN ell in the end of course I 1 con dented though I 1 felt that this would be the list occasion upon i aich I 1 should look joel into the doctor s face while lie he wis vas line alne looking back xion now I 1 think ma m mind must have ben been I 1 accuse mi self a hundred times of hailing am ing been the cau cause of brodsk s death yet the first lesson that lie he had implanted in daa m mind eer cier since I 1 first heard him lecture to us its students it at the hospital hospit il v is the dut of obedience ile he had command cd and it was for me to abc aspee fall hilll hoT however cier I 1 ba base e in vindication upon tint that through h the medium of which drowsk posse possessed d the to compel me or ancone an one els to obee him birn some davs dais elip elapsed sd before the ex peri pendent ment was mid mccu pied himself during this interval tenal In as I 1 surani surmised ed in setting lit hia in older cider at list last upon the afternoon ap pointel I 1 with liim him to his laboratory labori tor a long chambee in the ien ie n of the llou houe e shut but off bioni all communication with nith the e ox Ordin ordinarily aril AN is no sound bound within but now nm a 1 greit great en engine ine buzzed and throbbed beside a low ION flat table raised raided only some six inches abune the floor and sin mount ed b ba a largi laret bowl bol of a blue into inch the wires entered uron the table the imbecile child sit propped up against a flexible pillow polloi of rubber or some gome similar non con ducting material sc the room with ith ills his large lackluster eb tile the doctor stooped over his lichine and made ills his adjustments then lie he con necked a rubber sponge at the nation of a network neti Nork of wires with nith the child s spine and bound it there with inith strips of cloth in such a manner that it could not bi b ile he drew another wire ire terminating in 1 11 similar sponge from the recesses of the m lichine mi chIne and affixed it to himself in the same xay way finally he united both to the metal base bage of the globe with nith a clamp immediately Imme diatel the globe became dark and opaque that is the HIP measure of our vital forces he said arid and now I 1 x will ill give you bour instructions it was ab ma rn intention to risk you to press the lover which will nill send th biah voltage ol trige through our bodies hut but in case of in an untoward results acu ou would reproach yourself with being in mi bajer I 1 shill therefore aselt press the leer and lay upon you only the responsibility of recalling me to hac again aaben tt hen I 1 press this leier leer it will nill send ot i current of of several thousand volts directly through our bodies the will bo be the same as that which i is by an elee elec tro cution nou ow it has always bren mi claim alti ough the aull orides of our prisons would acier permit me to demon strato it that the man who has suffered electrocution can invariably bp be revived by the proper methods since the current merely paralyzes th ill centers and suspends the v vital functions v without destroying an any of the tissues ahe criminal who goes to the electric chair dies not from the effects of 0 the current tut but under th fit surgeon 9 knife I 1 have especially this instrument tor for the pupo poe pobe e of 0 proving ing my contention it il though I 1 little imagined at the time I 1 net get it forth that I 1 was nas lakel to be the first subject the soul which i is purel is attached to the bod by tenuous but none non the less lil ligaments id NN when hen drien brhen out by some iolena shock remains for some dais floating above aboe it until the ligaments gle wa na and acet ft it tree free by means of alii thia mechanism I 1 claim that the expelled soul cin can be conducted alon alona the wire tire and stored within the glob which I 1 la a perfect vacuum and its presence will ill be indicated hi the ap apar ince rance of a wisp of light to sun sum ur air I 1 shall ahall electrocute rn sell and the imbecile child tiou xou i ill talt until you see sec the two thedo of alime alaine appeal within the center of the then iou u ning fling back the lever leer and again push it for forward Nard to the notch mai mailed I 1 ed U aliat N ill lip bp all bour task the reversal of the current will nill ain agin force each separate sor irate soul along the wire mine into ma m own bod ind and the itz imbecile becil q s I 1 hope into ins ills hut but it if you do not at ilan I 1 cried I 1 ou oa v ill then wait N ait until some un usual symptom intervenes either in the child or in myself and now I 1 confers that I 1 am sufficiently juniac to feel a i certain bilge of apprehend slon sion so give me bour ou hand remco her ier it if this should be our last eren ment ve ne liae hae net ct man mini more parts to pla and lues ines to play them in be reidy really to plan pla bour our own onn pait sturgil dili dil in this ile he gripped ma m hand in fa barev revell ell my aly wan oin ansi answered ered the pressure then I 1 averted my lead head ind and waited mc loan in chile hile Brodsk 3 kneeling on the low table in the position of a v in some gome old print about to commit the fital fatal thrust tint that should cause iastan tannous death braced hini himself gelf against the rubber pillow arid and stretched Aret clied out ills hand I 1 heard the imbecile cackle grotesquely I 1 heird heard the soft thud ot of the doctors boda bod is as lie he collapsed side N viba csc and sudden 13 the opaque globe decime a dazzling blue ind and blue file spluttered splutter ed cd along the lires it wis nas too loo bright for ma m ebes 03 es to fool into it gradually Gia dually duall it subsided the globe became a pe irli grav and there within damli visible through the glass were two to bright fl limes inis rut put shaped the seemed to pursue one another as goldfish in a bowl bonni cir cling and doubling upon their courses now nov approaching each other now no dancing apart now DONN fu fused cd into one elongating and again retreating to op of cosite sides hides of the globo globe et ner neier for one instant did they cease to hover hoier with poised and pendulous wings r in gs I 1 stole a glance at the body bod 0 of the doctor lie he hall had fallen upon his side and lay lav motionless apparent ly IY II lifeless fLIeS his 1113 limbs outstretched and stiffened as those of a mm inin in some cat cataleptic cati leptic trance while at his side in ohp same state the imbecile pelle laa la with glass ees wide ilde open N as it indeed possible I 1 asked myself thit that those two soun souls one imbecilic Imbe cili the other a compendium of knowledge ind and title fine ness should in reality be those fool ish asb circling butter fl shared shaped lights hovered and danced continually I 1 must have hae watched them in fiscina i tion for full ke fine minutes before I 1 sul suddenly denly recalled fcc billed the doctors instruct donsi rut but my mv hinds hands shook 0 o that I 1 could with liy fly them upon the lever 1 I it at last reversed reer sed qed it and sent it forward agun to the notch E instantly the flames divided there came a hiss and Rp splutter lutter all and tho the wire nore was once more aflame i ith the blue light thon then a convulsive trUn trembling bling seized upon the limbs of the imbecile lip he gasped drew dran in a lone font breath and sit up ills cies fixed grai gra ely on mine nut but it N w 1 is no longer a glance of blink nisa ss as th though ough there were no mind behind the vision he saw me when I 1 moved the eyes fol to lowed cine alne and a current of j tig b c hauan n eim ani irom between the child s lips but brodsly liy lay is NN when hen he hall had fallen nor v ab a there any an relaxation in the stiffened limbs A spasm of fear seemed to turn the muscles ot of my lapart to stone I 1 stated st ired into the bo bowl I 1 there i as but one light there now non a tin fluttering flutter lne tiling thing that seemed each moment to become more moie ind and more attenuated it danced more beating from side to side sida in now darting bick back now noa dancing to feird N ard once again to NN where here the v vires fres entered tho the VAL IL auni I 1 bent oi r the body of the doctor chafing the hands in vain lin I 1 touched the cheel s nox now groling grow ins cold more ind and more blo ly moved that butterfly light it lie prod a pitiful tiny thins thin poised in the midst of ohp globe which was nas |
