An Anglo-American Alliance: A Serio-Comic Romance and Forecast of the Future — John Shaqi
An Anglo-American Alliance: A Serio-Comic Romance and Forecast of the FutureCasparian, Gregory
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An Anglo-American Alliance: A Serio-Comic Romance and Forecast of the Future
Casparian, Gregory
Lesbians -- Fiction; Science fiction
She had hardly gone a mile or two out of the city of B---- when her
emotions had swelled beyond her capacity of control and she became
delirious in her seat in the auto. Some pedestrians by the way,
noticing that something unusual had happened to the fair occupant,
called the attention of the chauffeur to his charge. He brought the
machine to a standstill and the necessity of enlisting the services
of a doctor was at once apparent.
One of the bystanders suggested that the nearest available doctor was
the Hindoo surgeon, Dr. Hyder Ben Raaba, about a furlong farther down
the road, and thither the patient was wheeled with all possible haste,
and within a few minutes she was in the Doctor's reception room.
After a cursory examination Ben Raaba appeared somewhat puzzled. "She
is in a state of coma," he said, rubbing his forehead with his bony
fingers, "but I do not yet see any physical cause to induce that
condition. It seems to me," he added, "that every function of the
organs are in a perfectly normal state."
His face brightened at once, however, with a smile of victory. A happy
thought had come to his fertile mind. He had thought of the singular
methods practised by the diagnostician Avicene of Balk--the father of
occult Diagnosis--and the words of the Cashmerian poet came to his
memory, who nearly ten centuries previously had said: "The pulse of
the loving, beats higher, agitated only at the name of the beloved."
Taking thereupon her pulse into his hand, he began to question the
chauffeur, where she had gone, with whom, what was the other young
lady's name, etc. He knew that, although she was in a state of coma,
her senses of hearing and of understanding were performing their
regular functions. At the mention of the name of Aurora Cunningham
there was a remarkable change in Margaret; her pulse began to beat
double quick!
After repeating the experiment, and satisfying himself that the cause
was a matter pertaining the heart, in fact the girl's infatuation for
her departed friend, and that there was nothing in the Materia Medica
as an antidote, that the only restorative remedy that could be found
was in hypnotic occultism, he leaned over the prostrate figure before
him and whispered some words into her ear.
The correctness of his diagnosis became plainly evident. The patient,
with perfect tranquility, opened her eyes, and with a complacent
smile looked into the face of her restorer. After a few more magnetic
passes and words of encouragement from the Wizard, she had completely
recovered herself, to the amazement of the anxious group of persons
who had gathered there, curious to know the fate of the fair occupant
of the automobile. Within half an hour she again entered her auto
and proceeded on her way to the city.
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