Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy

Don Miguel Lehumada: discoverer of liquid from the sun's rays an occult romance of Mexico and the United States

Marriet Motuble Addresses the Conspirators, in the Guise of a Man—Helen Hinckley Flies Through the Air, Overcoming the Law of Gravitation, with Governor Lehumada, and Saves His Life 162

Chapters

1. CHAPTER I.

2. CHAPTER II.

3. CHAPTER III.

4. CHAPTER IV.

5. CHAPTER V.

6. CHAPTER VI.

7. CHAPTER VII.

8. CHAPTER VIII.

9. CHAPTER IX.

10. CHAPTER XI.

11. CHAPTER XII.

Marriet Motuble Addresses the Conspirators, in the Guise of a Man—Helen Hinckley Flies Through the Air, Overcoming the Law of Gravitation, with Governor Lehumada, and Saves His...

12. CHAPTER XIII.

13. CHAPTER XIV.

14. CHAPTER XV.

15. CHAPTER XVI.

16. CHAPTER XVII.

The Governor and Party View the Ebonized Bodies of Marriet Motuble, Francisco R. Cantu, and Albert Hernandez, and Demonstrate the Use of Ebony Fluid Upon the Corpse of Reverend...

17. CHAPTER XVIII.

18. CHAPTER XIX.

19. CHAPTER XX.

20. CHAPTER I.

His fame as a scientist, as a man of great moral force, as a man who lived his daily life in a highly spiritual manner, was broadcast in the land.

21. CHAPTER II.

Early the next morning Julio Murillo was unlocking the side door which led into his quiet study adjoining the reception-room of the great scientist, Guillermo Gonzales, when he...

22. CHAPTER III.

The two great scientists, Señor Don Miguel Lehumada and Señor Guillermo Gonzales, had been more successful in their treatment with “Liquid from the Sun’s Rays”—or “Memory Fluid,...

23. CHAPTER IV.

Events of great importance were crowding themselves thick and fast upon the attention of more people in the capital of Chihuahua than the leader of his people, the Governor, and...

24. CHAPTER V.

Some time previous to this day a large body of her representative citizens, amongst whom were more than a thousand progressive women, had called upon the Governor _en masse_, an...

25. CHAPTER VI.

The Governor had spoken longer than he intended, and on looking at the timepiece, which occupied a conspicuous place in the room, he was greatly surprised to find the hour of mi...

26. CHAPTER VII.

It was the intention of the Presidential party to spend one day and night in Chihuahua, and to leave the following morning before eleven o’clock for Saltillo, where they would s...

27. CHAPTER VIII.

Governor Lehumada did not faint, nor was he in the least injured by the passionate embrace of Miss Motuble. He was speechless from surprise only, and he allowed his men to assis...

28. CHAPTER IX.

“I am an old man, your Honor, but am yet spry. When the Plunger left, I was called to your private study, where Señor Guillermo Gonzales wished to speak to me. If your Honor car...

29. CHAPTER X.

The cab was circular in form and around it extended a glass window which magnified everything seen through it from the interior of the cab, while from the street nothing in the...

30. CHAPTER XI.

Julio directed the motorman to keep far enough away to avert suspicion, but not to lose sight of it at any cost. The Governor’s cab was not in a place easily to be seen by Marri...

31. CHAPTER XII.

Not even the execution of Hidalgo, the good priest who sought to free the people of Mexico from the terrible slavery in which the church held them, created the same fervor. The...

32. CHAPTER XIII.

Helen Hinckley raised her beautiful face, shining with a light divine, and said: “It is the fulfillment, your Honor. It is the peace of the soul that ‘passeth all understanding.’”

33. CHAPTER XIV.

“I see,” he mentally commented, “the end of this revolution which has just begun. If those who precipitated the mad act were told now what the final would be, they would have no...

34. CHAPTER XV.

“It is only a woman!” exclaimed one man. “Finish the job, boys. She cannot prevent us. Finish your slaughter, boys; then we will triumph. Do not mind the voice of a woman. One o...

35. CHAPTER XVI.

“A modest way of putting it, my dear young lady, but we will not claim the credit in the least part of aiding you to discover how to overcome the law of gravitation. When we are...

36. CHAPTER XVII.

About noon the next day Governor Lehumada, in company with Helen Hinckley and Guillermo Gonzales, was returning from a professional and scientific call upon the head physicians...

37. CHAPTER XVIII.

Three weeks have passed since the city of Chihuahua was shaken to its foundation by the suicide (the masses knew no other term by which to call the act which had caused their so...

38. CHAPTER XIX.

Julio Murillo had become such a well-known seer by name, and also well known through the press, from the fact that upon him alone fell the responsibility of deciding whether the...

39. CHAPTER XX.

All of the prophecies of the seer, Julio Murillo, had been fulfilled to the letter. The nation clamored for him to be placed at the head of the “National School for Scientific D...