The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-16
An Invisible Avenger

But Margaret also told me of a tale where the
mans sins did not wait be visited upon ms descend
ants but were melted out in a partial punishment 70
himself in this life The had been suffering IN
tenselv for weeks with cancer of the liver. He
growing weaker and weaker. From man OF zOO
pounds he now scarcely weighed 100 He had con-
fessed to Margaret that he had done something
dreadful in his youth but he would not tell her
what and he believed that this was his retributon
81 must suffer l have made others suffer 1t Is
but right But oh, if I could only dieF he would
say over and over again.
wish / could describe the last scene OF this story
as Margaret made me see it. 1t beautiful, cold.
coudess night There moon, but the stars
twnkled brilliantly in the velvet bac1ness or the
heavens Even the wind seemed frozen and not
breath stirred the curtains OF the open window Only
the poor sick restless In thus universal calm
He had been tossing and murmuring for hours
All at once he sat up in bed, his eyes hxed on the
window Every nerve seemed at attention, watching
and listening something which to Margaret was
invisible Then the curtains began to shake violently
and as they did so the gave shrek OF horror,
shudder ran through him and be sank back on the
pillows gasping for breath. Margaret hastily gave
him hypodermic and he fell into stupor.
When she glanced at the window again the cur
tans were hanging quietly.
I once had experience so strange that have
never before spoken of it, would not believe it my
self if there had been another present who
will bear witness to it, We had been nursing
woman with diphtheria, and on day duty. IL
was about o'clock in the morning and had jussas
come in and was standing talking the night nurse
while she gave me a few details of the patients
condition.
"She is very ILL., l don't think she'll last the day
out"
Even as she spoke we both started curious
gray mist seemed have settled over the bed, for
moment almost shutting out view OF IL Grad
ually it became thinner and moved up and away, and
then dissolved into nothingness. II had taken but
moment, and the morning sunshine again filed the
room But when looked at patient she
dead. Is there such thing-ye who knows 4
visible death?
nurse believe in a future LIFE not because of
all the religions that preached, an the
PHILOSOPHERS that evolved from that
universal instinct and longing that lies hidden in
every mortal breast but it is belief born OF her
bitter experience with suffering and unhappiness,
until it to her almost a revelation that
somewhere, some time. somehow there be
chance if not for compensation, least for further
development.
Is this after life bourne from which no trav-
eler returns" there some minds attuned TO
catch the ghostly messages from the border
land? And in this very life itself there perhaps
vast cosnic agencies amenabe terrestrial laws
as our finite minds now grasp them, which migAt
mold our lives if would, but which manifest
themselves only to the few favored ones who are
keyed in harmony?
In these tales I have told stand sponsor for ne
truth OF the facts only in far my informants
understood them. But realize limitations
We do not attempt explanation And as In the
beginning, in the end. merely say II do know"