The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-12-06
A Story from Paris.
From the Spiritual Scientist.

Story from Paris.
From the Spiritual Scientist. II
Col. A., an English officer living in
Paris on half-pay, intrusted some very
important and valuable documents to
the keeping of B., a Frenchman, who
occupied the rooms Immediately below
those occupied by Col. A. in the Rue
de F., and who was supposed by the
latter to be safe and confidential
friend but B.. dishonesty intending 4,
to use those documents for his own
benefit, subsequently refused to re-
store them to Col. A., and, at length,
denied having received them.
Owing to certain circumstances of
the case, it was impossible for Col. A.
to recover his property by legal mean;
and having exhausted argument and
persuasion in the vain endeayor to in
duce B. to give up the papers, he de-
termined to evoke him, with the aid
of Mr.: c., an English friend of his,
who, like himself, was a powerful
magnetizer, medium and firm be.
lever in the feasibility of such evoca-
ton. Having fixed on a night for their
attempt, the Colonel and Mr.. c., being
religious men, passed the preceding
day together, preparing themselves by
prayer, meditation, and feryent an
peals to their spirit guardians for help
and guidance in the act they had in
view.
At about midnight they heard B. en-
ter his rooms. They waited until they
supposed him to be thoroughly wrap.
ped in slumber, and then solemnly call
ed upon his spirit to present himself,
bringing all their power of will to the
task of compelling him to come to
them. Tremendous blows were almost
Immediately struck by some unseen
agency upon the table, which was vio-
lently pushed about; and the author
OF this disturbance, interrogated by
the evokers, declared itself to be the
spirit of B., and angrily demanded,
through the hand of Mr.. G. IA writing
medium), what they wanted of him?
The two evOkers insisted that 3.
should tell them where he had depos-
tied the stolen papers, and B. Obsti-
nately refused to give the information
demanded, jerking the medium hand
abouto beating it violently on the ia
BILE, breaking the pencil, tearing the
paper, and filling the room with strange
noises, until vanquished by the supe-
rior fluidic force of the evokers and
and their spirit helpers, he confessed
that he had placed them in a secret
drawer, opened by spring, in a cab
met, which he described in room Of
which he gave the address, in the Rue
de d., in distant quarter of the town.,
under the care of man who was in
his employ, and to whom he had en-
trusted the key of the room.
B. awOke in the morning with full
and distinct remembrance of the noe
turnal scene in which he had been so
unwillingly an actor, though uncertain
whether it had been dream or real
ity. Alarmed, he dressed in haste, and
rushed off to the Rue de D., and order
ed his man on no account to let any
one into the room of which he had the
key.
s:But the two gentlemen who we're
here this morning almost before it was
light, came by your order, and so let
them in"
With an oath, B. rushed up the stairs
and into the room; his rage at the
keeper of the key and the evokers knew
no bounds when he found the papers
were gone. Returning at once to the
Rue de F., he went direct to the Colo
nel's rooms, forced his way in and up
braiding him, threatened to force him
to give back the papers.
''Idon't think you will - calmly re-
turned the Colonel, 'sfOr they are al
ready on their way to England, where
they will be safe from the machina-
tions of scoundrels like you.''
Incredible as it may seem, B., blind
ed by rage and cupidity, determined
to take legal proceedings against Col.
A. for the recovery of the papers, and
actually cited him before magistrate
on charge of fraudulent abstraction
of documents.
When the litigants appeared before
the Judge, B., as plaintiff, was called
upon to state the ground of his COM
plant. He began to recount the scene
of the evocation just narrated but
the Judge, supposing him to be I'M
sound in mind, cut him short, exclaim-
ing, ''Hold your tongue! l have no
time to waste on mailman. The case
is dismissed.