Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-30
CHAPTER VI


| Rosalie, however, was never long
at a loss for interesting suggestion.
For some time, in fact, she had been
anxious for the opportunity the occa-
sion presented. AS exponent of grow
| ing leadership of higher life, psychic
experimentation was more than a
| temptation-it was duty. Therefore
| rs it because you are so anxious
for Rogers safety that you are
frightened" she asked. Surely you
realize that you need not be-
mo, it's not exactly that, 1 guess
| just seem to have his going away,
and 1 hate still worse, ! think, that
1 should have to come to care so
much-for-for any one. In way,
it's appalling" Poor Nora, her
stoicism gone; compelled by the me
search it's possibilities, was plainly
terrified at the depth charges reveal
ed within loves troubled sea and
this it was which still absorbed her.
But Rosalie had something else in
mind.
Still, later on you will be ter
ribly frightened at his danger, unless
ed. Shall I tell you" she asked. ,
"Safeguarded? How?" questioned
Nora.
S S6 6eea fGErough
But the work must be systematized
and the thought of safety held by
their friends. Did you. never hear
of higher life protective circles?
Well, the time has come to tell you.
We are doing it right here and now.
And, if you wish, L will make Roger
my special charge. 1 would be glad
to do it, for my own sake, to estab-
lish another link in the great chain
of evidence for higher life and it's
great truth"
Nora thanked her friend, as in
duty bound, profusely. But she was
conscious of highly developed state
of doubt, if not utter disbelief. Pray
er, doubtless, could do many things.
Nora, whose life thus far had been
ligions and finds them ADEQUATE or
wanting, as the case may be, was
conscious of no special lack of faith.
In truth, she had not been greatly
interested, the future was SO utterly
clad women who had come to her
mothers home sittings to commune,
sobbing, with their loved ones, served
only to intensity Morals distaste for
the whole problem.
It was, for her, tainted with fraud
on the one hand, with weak delusion
There had been widows, in those
old days of the Dulany circle, who
had come in pitiful confidence to
ask how best to invest the little
fund of insurance money, whether
or not to sell the little home, plac-
ing themselves, with credulity al
most beyond belief, within the very
jaws of the jackal.
Be it said in justice, neither Ed
Dulany nor his wife were ever par
ties to swindling schemes. They were
satisfied with the fat fee they
charged for the. messages produced.
aways" made by numerous of their
colleagues they discussed freely in
the child Morals presence, accustom-
ed, as they were. to her quiet
reticence.
A belief, whose opponents, by their
silence if not actually participation.
permitted the robbing of, the widow
and the orphan of their pittance,
must stand forevermore disgraced,
Nf Perhaps this higher life Of Rosa
lies was a different thing altogeth-
er. Doubtless it really was. Many
intelligent persons believed its teacn-
fngs, even to the whispered posslpli-
tiles of it's healing and Of triumph
over death. Resale believed it and
of course Resale was honest.
That is, Rosa1ie might deceive
herself, but surely she would NOT
lend herself to that old cruel trick
ery-surely.
friend, To think of her in doubtful
fashion was odious.. That settled
the question for Nora
Besides, there was her meeting
with Roger to think about. He had
been in camp the, last two weeks, near