Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-06-09
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By ii. NIB RnlE RoWls d
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CHA ton. Oh 3siS

L t1Qnal age there mas NOT ceased 10 be
a border line between the spiritual and
bodily elements. There are as strange
things happening today as ever hap.
5pened stranger things " for we VII
believe nothing now unless we can!
eliminate every possibilit q fraud.
ss$EI am q country doctor. NJ Formerly
used d horse and buggy to make my
round OF visits, then d bicycle, then an
automobile hen Il was using my
bicycle Il was called TO see d patient
one moonlight evening Ii early sum
mer. Hanging my med cine case To- 4
the handle bars. ! started of on q very
smooth road to 60 q couple of miles
The night was still, and the air was
soft. ] did not need my lamp.
could have heard d leaf fall among
the trees beside the road.
"a bicycle In good conditi lon moves
very silently Neverthe less, though
mine was in perfect trim, It was NOT
without some sound on this very Still
night ! was riding; with my back to-
ward the moon. Which stood high In
the heavens and shone down obliqne-
II over my right shoulder. casting my
shadow before me, inclined a little to-
the right. Suddenly other shadow
came into my field OF view, gaining
on mine very. slowly 81 & did not turn
my head, keeping watch Of the object
following In M AZ ke by Its shadow
When ! could trace on the ground as
distorted human figure riding a wheel
not six feet away from and abreast
Of me I turned my head expecting to-
see felloWatraveler
Neither figure nor bicycle was there.
4 dropped my eyes again to the road.
and there was the shadow. r55 HUE Rue
I'm not going to describe my feel
ings, for there are no words for the
purpose. was recalled to myself by (
the billing Of my bicycle. Them
somewhat ecorering my equanimity, &
studied the shadow beside mine. IL 4
was SO punched that 4 concluded it be-
longed to q woman /, especially since
there was q pa + which futtered by q
passing through the air. u listened FOR
the slightest sound but notwi thstand, ~
Ing the proximity OF the mysterious 4
and, invisible object casting Its shadl- n.
|ow ] heard nothing. = 5s
Spook lore is full OF cases OF shad.
owless beings, but never before had u
heard Of shadow with no, Intervening
object between It and the light that i
cast IT. turned my wheel to the 4
other side Of the road, but the shadow
turned with me. So absolutely did IT.
follow mine that 1t occurred to me
that it must be duplicate Of mine.
turned in8my saddl e and looked be-
hind me TO see II there wal. any OBJ:
ject to produce such a result. The
space at my back was free from any !
Intervening object: 81 s5 AZ SIS
BY this time my nerves were all In a.
| quiyer-not that there was anything
to be afraid Of, and Il did not fear the
invisible, but i would have: given: ten
years Of my life to get rid OF the thing
simply because IT. was, uncanny. 1t
would not be got rid OF. Il. = turned $its
turned: II my wheel wa billed It wabs
bled; If i slowed down 1t slowed down:
II I55went faster it went faster. 81
For a time It did not occur to me I
that 4 might have received some brain
shock. A single minute drop OF blood 4
brea king through d vessel 5Of the brain
will produce strange results Paralysis
is the most common. loss Of memory ID I
another. and we do not know how u
! many haliucination s occur from that
cause. fancied that one OF these
drops Of blood migh have. $iinpinged
upon my eye il SO ME wa Y to cause me
to see a dupli lea te shadow OF myself.
But Id that case & i would have been
an exact plica Il, ana lii the present
the herfwas not mine n
III entered - place ~ here oyerarching
trees east their own siad oWs5 and 1
mine and \ my ID ttend ant was lost
prayed that y hen emerged into the &
mnoonlig mine would alone remain
|. Alas, was ~ doomed Il to disappoints
l:ment It was there us perfect as when
4 entered the are hway u
e3s}Al5 few hundre yards ahead the
road 5forked ould the invisible trav.i
.eler. to kes my road to- the ieft Or 60 BY
herself to the right Swatch he'd with
bated breath IA Nearer and nearer We
i$neared the fork faster d nd faster beat
my hear. At last point was reach.
ed where M compa ion must make ID 4
turn. When sal our shade ws show
the faintest Walton I heayed al deer,
Sigh vider and wider grew the dis
| lance till al doubt Sas TO our Glowing
different 8roa ds was removed.
I5sI had got rid of III e thing, and that
/ i ~ W hat most Wished for Nothing
was Accounted for, 1 but i felt that from
this divergence the stad dow was some
thing Under endent 81 le;; that had
not created 3it., nor was ia any way
responsible for
llsS Once and Nd once only saw ii again.
The two road came together just be-
fore 4 reached $th house where nv
my pal ienf he shade Joined ma
for Sa few moments Id inobstructefl
mo onlight at the road 8 Junction: then
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