Challenger, Professor (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Spiritualism -- Fiction
stronger and more virile as it faced such problems as the future had in
store--a future which had ceased to be bounded by the narrow horizon of
death, and which now stretched away into the infinite possibilities and
developments of continued survival of personality, character and work.
* * * * *
The marriage had taken place. It was a quiet function, but no prophet
could ever have foretold the guests whom Enid’s father had assembled in
the Whitehall Rooms. They were a happy crowd, all welded together by the
opposition of the world, and united in one common knowledge. There was
the Rev. Charles Mason, who had officiated at the ceremony, and if ever
a saint’s blessing consecrated a union, so it had been that morning. Now
in his black garb with his cheery, toothsome smile, he was moving about
among the crowd carrying peace and kindliness with him. The
yellow-bearded Mailey, the old warrior, scarred with many combats and
eager for more, stood beside his wife, the gentle squire who bore his
weapons and nerved his arm. There was Dr. Maupuis from Paris, trying to
make the waiter understand that he wanted coffee, and being presented
with toothpicks, while the gaunt Lord Roxton viewed his efforts with
cynical amusement. There, too, was the good Bolsover with several of
the Hammersmith circle, and Tom Linden with his wife, and Smith, the
fighting bull-dog from the north, and Dr. Atkinson, and Mervin the
psychic editor with his kind wife, and the two Ogilvies, and little Miss
Delicia with her bag and her tracts, and Dr. Ross Scotton, now
successfully cured, and Dr. Felkin who had cured him so far as his
earthly representative, Nurse Ursula, could fill his place. All these
and many more were visible to our two-inch spectrum of colour, and
audible to our four octaves of sound. How many others, outside those
narrow limitations, may have added their presence and their
blessing--who shall say?
* * * * *
One last scene before we close the record. It was in a sitting-room of
the Imperial Hotel at Folkestone. At the window sat Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Malone gazing westwards down Channel at an angry evening sky. Great
purple tentacles, threatening forerunners from what lay unseen and
unknown beyond the horizon, were writhing up towards the zenith. Below
the little Dieppe boat was panting eagerly homewards. Far out the great
ships were keeping mid-channel as scenting danger to come. The vague
threat of that menacing sky acted subconsciously upon the minds of both
of them.
“Tell me, Enid,” said Malone, “of all our wonderful psychic experiences,
which is now most vivid in your mind?”
“It is curious that you should ask, Ned, for I was thinking of it at
that moment. I suppose it was the association of ideas with that
terrible sky. It was of Miromar I was thinking, the strange mystery man
with his words of doom.”
“And so was I.”
“Have you heard of him since?”
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