The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-09

hurried to and fro in his 1neHectual eX-
element, innumerable spirits of that
world about him mobbed him and con-
fused his mind. And ever an envious
applauding multitude poured after
their successful fellow as he went upon
his glorious career.
For that it would seem must be the
life of these bodileSs things of this
world that is the shadow of our world.
Ever they watch, coveting a way into
mortal body in order that they may de-
scend, as furies and frenzies, as violent
lusts and mad, strange impulses, re
joicing in the body they have won. For
Mr.. Bessel was not the only human soul
in that palace Witness the fact that he
met first one, and afterward several
shadows of men, men like himself, 1t
seemed, who had lost their bodies even
it may be as he had lost his, and wan
dered despairing in that lost world that
is neither life nor death. They could not
speak because that world is silent. yet
he knew them for men, because of
their dim human bodies and because
OF the sadness of their faces.
But how they had come into that
world he could not tell, nor where the
bodies they had lost might be, whether
they still raved about the earth or
whether they were closed forever IN
death against return. That they were
the spirits of the dead neither he nor L
believe. But DR.. Wilson aget thinks
they are the rational souls of men who
are lost in madness on the earth.
AT last Mr.. Bessel CHANGED upon
place where g little crowd of such dis
embodied silent creatures was gath
cred, and. thrusting through them, he
saw below a brightly-lit room, and four
or five quiet gentlemen and woman, a
stoutish woman, dressed in black al
71xr in, oh al
with her head thrown back. He knew
her from her portraits to be Mrs. Bull
lock, the medium, and he perceived
that tracts and structures in her brain
gloWed and stirred as he had seen the
pineal eye in the brain of Mr.. Vincent
glow The light was very ftful; some
times it was a broad illumination, and
sometimes merely faint twilight spot,
and it shifted slowly about her brain.
She kept on talking, and writing with
one hand; and Mr.. Bessel saw that the
crowding shadows of men about him,
and a great multitude of the shadow
spirits of that shadow land, were all
striving and thrusting to touch the
lighted regions of her brain. AS one
gained her brain or another was thrust
away, her voice and the writing of her
hand changed. So that what she said
was disorderly and confused for the
souls message, and now fragment
of another's, and now she babbled the
insane fancieS of the spirits of vain
desire Then Mr. Bessel understood
that she spoke for the spirit that had
touch of her, and he began to struggle
very furiously towards her. But he
was on the outside of the crowd, and
at that time he could not reach her;
and, at last, growing anxious, he went
IN find what had hanDe0ed mean
while to his body.
For a long time he went to and fro,
! seeking it in vain and fearing that it
must have been killed, and then he
found it at the bottom of the shaft in
Baker street, writhing furiously and
cursing with pain. It, leg and an arm
and two ribs had been broken by it's
/ fall. Moreover, the evil spirit was an
l'gry because his time had been so
short and because of the pain-malzing
violent movements and casting his
/ body about
And at that Mr.. Bessel returned with
redoubled earneStness to the room
where the seance was going on, and so
I soon as he had thrust himself within
sight of the place, he saw one of the
men who stood about the medium Iok-
ing at his watch as if he meant that
4 the seance would presently end. At
that a great number of the shadows
who had been striving turned away
with gestures of despair. But the
thought that the seance was almost
over only made Mr.. Bessel the more
+ earnest, and he struggled so stoutly
with his viii against the others that
( presently he gained the womans brain.
1t CHANGED that just at that moment
it glowed very brightly, and in that
instant she wrote the message that Dr.
/ Wilson Paget preserved And then the
other shadows and the cloud of evil
spirits about + m had thrust Mr.. Bessel
away from her, and for all the rest of
the seance he could gain her nc
more
So he went back and watched
through the long hours at the bottom
OF the shaft, where the evil spirit lay
in the stolen body it had MANNED
writing, and cursing, and weeping
and groaning, and learning the lesson
of pain. And toward dawn the thing
he had waited for happened-his brain
glowed brightly and the evil spirit
came out. and Mr.. BesseI entered the
body he had feared he should never
enter again. AS he did so the silence
the brooding silence, ended; he heard
the tumult of traffic and the voices OF
people overhead, and that strange
world that is the shadow of our world
the dark, silent shadows of desire anC
the shadows of lost men vanished clear
away.
He lay there for the space of about
three hours before he was found, anC
in spite of the pain and suffering of his
wounds, and of the dim, damp place ir
which he lay; in spite of the tears
Wrung from him by his physical dis.
tress, his heart was full of gladness tc
know that he was back once moro IN