Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-10-25

IF YOU Will DO lnlS fdot'
favor for me in Ten days you can De WIN
AMY: YOU can remain ten days ana IN ten
DAYS more NE can return hither, and
Tpiil ca ont of you and relieve you OF
NV nresf nee forever. OF course every
enc will believe that l have come home
mon a thirty days furlough in conse-
0nence of her condition, and after my
rs,urn 10 the army thsy will only have
n CHRONICLE the disappearance OF another
soldier"
reflected fer some time up the
strange p tition thus maryelousiy ana
pathe,ically addressed to me. At last
l said:
Two objections occur to me. One OF
them is an objection TO the morall.y
Of the whole proceeding. l am falsely
10 personate a dead man. The other
objection is based upon proper regard
for my own nteres-s-seif-pre
If suffer you 10 poss SIS me as you pro-
pose. what assurance nave l that l viii
be able 10 cas-. you cut al the ,ermlna-
ton of our engagement, il you should
feel disnclined TO go? II you can sat
isfy me upon these two points l viii
consent to what you propose, strange
and unparalleled as the whole thing APP
pears"
Immediately after I heard the pencil
scratching in tha book, and when the
sound had ceased | read what my Wierd
correspondent had written, as follows:
ITO your ethical objections l desire
to present two answers: First, what 1
propose 10 you is not cas- OF doing
evil that good may come il is an act not
wrong OF Itself and is done with the
highest and purest motives. The second
answer l make is that You are not to do
anything. You are only to enable me
10 do something which l am bound in
honor and good conscience 20 Go, if il be
possible. Your body is not you any
more than this decay.ng corpse is l. The
act will be mine, not yours, and l pre-
sumo that Their can be no possible ques-
ton about The fact that, If il is possible
for me 10 do so, | ought 10 carry out my
promise to marry Amy To your sec
Ond objection l answer, in perfect can
dor, that you are calm, wise and resO-
lu,e enough 10 cas-. me out even though
l should be unwilling 10 go, and that
In your own c0nsc. business you know this
TO be so. II you were not you might
indeed be mourning a mos. fearful risk
IN permitting any spirit 10 possess your
body. In he second place. | have TO
state the simple fact that I would 90 out
OF you voluntarily. because I hope to get
a new b0dy'-a hope The mighty force
Of wllch ! do not think You can fully
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Il IS d.ficrlt TO eynress in words the
experience thai followed. Perhaps if
some scientist could GeIlse mems by
which one might grasp the poles or an
electric battery and receive the charge
= IL WitloI, experiencing any shock
Whatever, the quiet influx OF mat subtle
mud might 0a something Ike what
Ie.t' ana "Aen IAe psdcelUI process
seemed 10 a. We perN2ded my "Aoie
frame l was assume ~ conscious 'u"1 ny
BODY was Jenan'ed by De.ng separate
from myseH-an a.'er ego indeed:
A new and startling experience soon
presented Itself to me. II you will close
your eyes and ,hiuk Intensely Of he
words Of music of some familiar song,
You will be able to see them without
speaking or uuer.ng the words or 10 rs
at al; ana so all at once l sa" me -act
that my strange guest was saying or
rather lmpTes5-ng upon my pi1ih' so
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