Arthur B. Reeve

Name: The Stolen War Secret — VI. The Medical Party
Author: Arthur B. Reeve

The Stolen War Secret — VI. The Medical Party (1914)

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“The Stolen War Secret — VI. The Medical Party”, published in 1914, is a work by Arthur B. Reeve. It explores elements such as Señora Ruiz, mescal and Kennedy.

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Arthur B. Reeve, The Stolen War Secret — VI. The Medical Party (1914)

“ Color after color, vision after vision succeeded, but in all there persisted that vision of gold. Whether it was something in the drug or whether it was some thought of gold subconsciously cropping up, it was nevertheless there.
Kennedy’s experiences, as he related them to me afterward, were similar. When the playing began, a beautiful panorama unfolded before him—the regular notes of the music enhancing the beauty and changes of the scenes which he described as a most wonderful kinetoscopic display. ”

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Arthur B. Reeve, The Stolen War Secret — VI. The Medical Party (1914)

“ On the top, still, if you look carefully, you can see the tuft of spines, like a cactus.”
“That’s very interesting,” commented Kennedy, examining one.
“It grows in the rocky soil in many places in the northern Mexican states,” continued Alvarez, “and the Indians, when they go out to gather it, simply lop off these little ends that peep above the earth. They dry them, keep what they wish for their own use and sell the rest for what to them is a fabulous sum.” ”

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Arthur B. Reeve, The Stolen War Secret — VI. The Medical Party (1914)

“ Yet there was nothing voluptuous or sensual about it. It seemed to raise one above earthly things. Men and women were now brilliant creatures of whom I was one. It was sensuous, but it was not sensual. ”

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Arthur B. Reeve, The Stolen War Secret — VI. The Medical Party (1914)

“ The drink is horrible stuff that sends the peon out of his senses and makes him violent. The mescal that I mean is not only a shrub—it is a—a religion.”
“Yes, it is almost that among the Indians,” remarked Sanchez who seemed to have regained something of his own manner. “The mescal cult, if you choose to call it that, has spread widely in Now Mexico and Arizona among the Indians, and even northward. I understand your Government has forbidden the importation of the plant and its sale to the Indians under severe penal ties. Still, the sale grows, they tell me. ”

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Arthur B. Reeve, The Stolen War Secret — VI. The Medical Party (1914)

“ Señora Ruiz took one of the little buttons out of the tray and carefully pared off the fuzzy tuft of hairs on the top. It looked to me very much like the tip of a peculiar cactus plant, which in fact it was. Then she rolled it up into a little pellet and placed it in her mouth, chewing it slowly.
The others followed her example and we did the same. Mentally I determined to follow Kennedy’s lead.
“The mescal shrub,” remarked Alvarez as he joined us, “grows precisely like these little buttons which you see here. It is a species of cactus which rises only half an inch or so from the ground. ”

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Arthur B. Reeve, The Stolen War Secret — VI. The Medical Party (1914)

“ He is in town.”
“Indeed?” remarked Kennedy innocently. “I wish he would drop in. I have heard so much about him lately that I would like to know him better.”
Sanchez for the first time seemed to show some interest in the conversation, as he caught the name of Sinclair, but he said nothing.
“I’m just as well satisfied,” put in Señora Ruiz with a slight shrug of her pretty shoulders. “I like Colonel Sinclair—but he is all business—business—railroads, mines and mines and railroads. There are other things in life besides business.” ”

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