DON MIGUEL LEHUMADA DISCOVERER OF LIQUID FROM THE SUN’S RAYS AN OCCULT ROMANCE OF MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES BY SUE GREENLEAF [Illustration] NEW YORK B. W. DODGE AND COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY B. W. DODGE AND COMPANY WITH SORROW IN MY HEART AND MUCH PITY FOR THE WEAK WHO PUT STUMBLING BLOCKS IN MY PATH AND WISHED MY LIFE A PERPETUAL SLOUGH OF DESPOND, I RESPECTFULLY DEDICATE THIS VOLUME. THE AUTHOR. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE The Arrival of Señor Don Miguel Lehumada from Kansas City—A Scene in the Scientist’s Study, Chihuahua 9 CHAPTER II. Marriet Motuble Tells Julio Murillo of His First Incarnation 18 CHAPTER III. The Death of President Diaz, the Annexation of Mexico to the United States—Helen Hinckley Becomes the Private Secretary of Don Francisco R. Cantu y Falomir 27 CHAPTER IV. The Plunger from Kansas Returns to Chihuahua and Takes “Memory Fluid” and _Remembers_ 42 CHAPTER V. Governor Miguel Lehumada Lectures Upon “Liquid from the Sun’s Rays” 55 CHAPTER VI. Mrs. Grange Disports Herself before the Distinguished Visitors, a Scene Ensues, and President Mortingo Avows His Intentions of Becoming a _Subject_ 70 CHAPTER VII. Catalina Martinet Surprises the President by Telling Him She _Remembered_ Him in a Life Gone by 85 CHAPTER VIII. The Plunger from Kansas Confesses to the Crime He Committed 150 Years Ago, in 1898 99 CHAPTER IX. Marriet Motuble Reports Herself Dead and Tells of Revolutionists’ Intentions 114 CHAPTER X. A Day Full of Conundrums 131 CHAPTER XI.