JOHN SILENCE
Physician Extraordinary
JOHN SILENCE
Physician Extraordinary
BOSTON
JOHN W. LUCE & COMPANY
1909
TO
M. L. W.
THE ORIGINAL OF JOHN SILENCE
AND
MY COMPANION IN MANY ADVENTURES
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| CASE I | |
| A Psychical Invasion | 1 |
| CASE II | |
| Ancient Sorceries | 75 |
| CASE III | |
| The Nemesis of Fire | 143 |
| CASE IV | |
| Secret Worship | 245 |
| CASE V | |
| The Camp of the Dog | 295 |
“And what is it makes you think I could be of use in this particularcase?” asked Dr. John Silence, looking across somewhat sceptically atthe Swedish lady in the chair facing him.
“Your sympathetic heart and your knowledge of occultism——”
“Oh, please—that dreadful word!” he interrupted, holding up a fingerwith a gesture of impatience.
“Well, then,” she laughed, “your wonderful clairvoyant gift and yourtrained psychic knowledge of the processes by which a personality maybe disintegrated and destroyed—these strange studies you’ve beenexperimenting with all these years——”
“If it’s only a case of multiple personality I must really cry off,”interrupted the doctor again hastily, a bored expression in his eyes.
“It’s not that; now, please, be serious, for I want your help,” shesaid; “and if I choose my words poorly you must be patient with myignorance. The case I know will interest you, and no one else coulddeal with it so well. In fact, no ordinary professional man could dealwith it at all, for I know of no treatment or medicine that can restorea lost sense of humour!”
“You