Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-05-17
John watched Dorothy

as he spoke.
Il am so glad" and Dorothy drop
ped the pile Of music she was examin-
ing.
John was thankful for an opportun-
ity to hide his face. While he slowly
gathered up the music, he continued:
Her spirit name is Aveil.
Then he released your spirit, and
now YOU know how it is to have your
other self in another sphere
John looked up quickly. but Instant
ly turned again TO the music. Did he
only fancy that Dorothys tone was
rather relieved when she found that his
affinity was not earthly?
At times John hated himself for the
remarkable experience he related to
Dorothy But ne quoted Aveil at all
opporule and inopportune moments.
Ii was with secret satisfaction that he
noted the forced interest Dorothy ac-
corded TO these recitals. He also OBJ
served that she was greatly disturbed
that her messages from Orvon were
becoming less frequent than OF old.
At last John concluded that the time
for his master-stroke had arrived. He
presented himself one evening with a
very serious face.
Dorothy. l have bad news, he said,
sorrowfully.
You are not going away?" anx-
iOusly.
Worse than that"
DO tell me what it is Dorothy i'm
plored
"Aven has deserted me" John an
nOunced sOlemnly.
Dorothy did not seem greatly i'm
pressed. A relieved look came into her
startled eyes.
You mean she has ceased to guide
YOU. IL viii be only for a short time.
You must endsayOr TO give more atten-
ton 20 a higher plane Of thought - and
Dorothy smiled serenely.
No. Ayeil came 10 M herself and
save me my release.
Yes" sympa,hetically.
she discovered that my heart was
divided and so advised me to follow
her good example by mating with soma
one on my own plane
Dorothy blushed and grew confused.
In ell her psychic experience she had
never heard anything so extraordinary
She knew that men were but mortal
and a times grew weary of wOrshipng
at the shrine of a far-Off star; buJ that
the more enlightened being OF higher
world should counsel such a proceed
ing was astounding.
"OrvOn has not been with me as con-
stantly as he used TO be. she said slow
~. Il fear that earthly pleasures have
so engrOSsed my mind that he is dis
pleased
John was possessed with an unhOly
desire TO laugh UprOariOusly. Had he
been a woman ne would have consid-
cred that he was bordering on hysJeria.
t. was so ridiculously homogeneous. Do
Ilrhy's tone and words and DOrOthy's
d.mpled face. His voice had q faint
tinge Of laughter in il as ne said:
Dorothy, I fear cur heavenly guard
ians have conspired against US. Aysil
has deserted me for one who claims that
/ his earthly self has not taken him seri-
ously enough. And isn't il strange, his
| name is OrvOn?'
With despairing cry. "OrvOnr Do
rOthy fell sens less at Johns feet
JUN AAA A0A NAaNAltlAeu AOW QEtD Il
root even an unnatural fancy could take
/ in sensitive, highly strung mind He
looked in diSmay at the effect of his
words.
All through the week that Dorothy
shut herself up with her rent illusion
and refused TO see him John called him
self a brute" and vowed that if she
ever forgave him she might join all the
societies for the cultivation of state
proper 70 induce cOmmuni catiOns with
! other planets and he would be content
But John had not vet learned that it
/ is easier TO shatJer an idol than to rear
! one.
For he time being D9rothy's light
/ hearted gayety was diSpelled, and try as
/ she might she could not again enter the
/ happy frame of mind from which she
| had been sOrud ~ shaken.
She was like a child who. when some
toOprac,ical person destroys its BELIEF in
( Santa Claus, yainly tries to restore tha
I cid illusion, but finds it impossible.
/ At first she shrank from John as tbs
I author Of all her sufferings. but soon
/ she began TO pity him; and at last. when
I John wen, back to San Francisco, Do
rothy went with him.-St Louis Repub-
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