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PHILOSOPHY OF SOUL
There is one more incident which occurred in Paris in 1952. In some ruins of an old house murder was committed in a very mysterious fashion. The murderer had concealed the corpse in some unknown place.
The police started investigations and took statements of the persons staying nearby. Neither murderer nor the dead body was traced. The police in disguise watched vigilantly with no result.
The police used all fair and foul means to detect the culprit for three weeks but nothing came out. Newspapers passed bitter remarks at their failure and the police moved heaven and earth to unfold the mystery.
One police officer remembered Peter's marvel of the last year and Peter was summoned to Paris. Peter concentrated on the photograph of the murdered person and he requested the officers to follow him. Crossing the streets and passing by the palatial mansions of Paris, he arrived at some old house. Peter said : "Murder is not committed here”.
"Impossible, the evidence leads to the conclusion that murder has taken place here" said the police officer.
"There is an underground room here and here is the dead body of the murdered person". Peter pressed a switch and the subterranean way was exposed. The police recovered the dead body which was buried underground. Peter named one woman and two men as the murderers. Thus the police could solve highly complicated riddle with the help of Peter's marvellous faculty.
We studied these two incidents which narrated the past accurately. Now we shall study one more incident which justifies the faculty of future prediction.
Once a prominent merchant from Paris called Peter at his office. Peter reached the office in time. The businessman proposed to start a new venture of selling carbonic gas packed in bottles. He wanted to consult Peter in the same connection.
Both of them had never met before and Peter also had never seen the business-man's Factory, and also he was not conversant with modern machinery.
The merchant, the manager, the technical assistant and Peter were taking a stroll in the Factory when Peter stopped suddenly