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The Seaforth News, 1932-09-22, Page 6PAGE SIX: THE SEAFORTH NE1XS. TI-HUESDIAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1,932: eveflge Mysterious otri Doyle (Continued from last week.) iSanscrit was the ordinary language o'f the great bulk of the in'habitantsof. II walked ,back to •Bran'ksome •nivab India:" and ex - father I assure you, Sir,"said my disturbed by this interview, a tremeiy puzzled as to what course I 'father. warmly, "that it' was dead and forgotten at that dale, save by the should pursue. It was evident now that my sister's suspicions were Cor -learned, who used it as a vehicle for reef, and that there was some very scientific and religious works just as, intimate connection between the pre- !Latin was used in the, middle ages sence of the three Orientals and the long after it had ceased to be spok-- mysteriaus 'peril which hung over the en by, any (European nation," towers of 'Cloo'mtber. Lt was difficult "If you will consult the presets you for me to associate the ,nw+bie-faced 'will find," said Ram 'Singh, "that this Iltam ;.high's gentle, refinedmanner'theory, though commonly received, land words of wisdom with any deed is entirely untenable," of violence; yet now that S ,thought "And if you will consult the Rama- of it I could see that a terrible ca- yana, and:mune particularly the can - of ,for wrath lay'behind his shag- clidal books on Buddhist discipline," gy brows and dark, piercing eyes. I cried my father, "you will find that felt that of all men whom I bad ever the theory is unassailable" met he was the one whose displeas_ "But look 'at the Knllavagga," said etre I should least care to face. But our visitor, eannestly, how could two. men so widely dissoc- "Arte look at I{ing tAsoka, shout- how as the foul-mouthed old corporal ed my father, triumphantly. "When, of artillery and the distinguished An- in the year 300 before the Christian eel -Indian general have each earned 'era—(before, mind you—he ordered the ill -will of these strange cast- the laws of Buddha to be engraved aways? And if the danger was a posi- upon the rocks, what language did he rive physical one, why should he employ, eh? Was it Sanscrit?—no! Re - not consent to my proposal to have And why was it not 'Sanscrit ? the three men .placed under my cis- cause the lower orders of his subjects tody? though I confess it would have would not have'been able to un'der- gone much against'my grain to act stand a word of it. Hal hal 'That was in so inhospitable a manner upon such the reason. How are you going to get vague and shadowy .ground's. These around King Asoka's edicts, eh?" questions were absolutely unanswer- able; and yet the solemn .words and leets," Ram Singh answered. "But he terrible gravity which ,I had seen energy is •too precious a thing to be in the faces .of .both the old soldiers wasted in mere wind in ,this style. forbade me from thinking that their The sun has passed its meridian, and fears were entirely unfounded. It was 'I nI st return to my companions." all a puzzle—an absolutely insoluble am sorry that you have not puzzle. One thing at least was clear 'brought them to see us," said my fa - to me—and that was that in the pre- ther, courteously. He was, I could sent state of my knowledge, and af- ter the general's distinct prohibition, debate he had overstepped the bounds it was impossible for me to interfere of hospitality. in any way. I could only wait and, "They do not mix with the would," pray that, whatever the danger might 'Ram Singh answered, rising to his be, it might pass over, or at least that feet, "They are of a higher .grade than my dear Gabriel and her brother I, and more sensitive to contaminat- might be protected against it, ing influences, They are immersed in :I was walking down the lane lost a six months' meditation upon the in thought, and had got as far as the mystery of the titre incarnation, wicket gate which opens upon the which has lasted from the time that I$ranksome laws, when I was surpris- ed to hear my father's voice raised in see you again, 14x, .Hunter Wes , and mast animated and excited converse. 4 therefore bid you farewell 'Your old The old man had been of late so ab- age will be a happy one, as it de- stracted from the daily affairs of the serves to he, and your Eastern world, and so absorbed in his own studies will have a lasting effect upon special studies, that it was difficult the knowledge and literature of your to engage his attention upon• any or- awn country: 'Farewell!" dinary mundane topic. Curious to An am I also to see no more of know what it was that had drawn you? I asked. him so far out of himself, 'I opened `Unless you will walk withme hire gate softly, and walking quietly along the seashore," he answered. round the laurel .bushes found him ."But you have already been out this sitting, to my astonishment, with none morning, and may be tired. "I ask other thanthe very man who was oc- too much. of you." cupying my thoughts, ',Ram Singh, the com ay' I should be delighted to 'Buddhist, The two were sitting upon e, I responded from my 'huant, a garden bench, and the Oriental ap- and d we set, off together, accompanied peered to be laying down some some little distance by my father, weighty proposition, checking every who would gladly, ,I could see, have point upon his long quivering ,brown reopened the 'Sanscrit controversy, (fingers, while my father, with his 'h'ad not his stock of breath been too hands thrown abroad and his face 'limited to allow of his talking and awry, was loud in protestation and walking at the same time., in argument So absorbed were they He is a learned man," Ram Singh g remarked, after we had left n their controversy that I stood with- i him 'Jbe- in a hand -touch of them for a min- hind; "but, like many another, he is uteor mare before they ,became, con- intolerant toward opinions which dif- scious of my presence. On observing ler froth his own. He will know bet - me the man sprang to his feet and ter some day,' greeted me with the same lofty I made no answer to this observ- courtesy and dignified grace which ation, and we trudged along for a had so impressed me the day before, time in silence, keeping well down to "I promised myself yesterday," he the water's edge, where the sands af- said, "the pleasure of calling upon horded a good foothold. The sand your father. You see I have kept my dunes which lined the coast formed a word, I have even bean daring enough continuous ridge upon our left, cut - to 'ques'ticin his views uponsome ting us off entirely from all human points in connection with the San- observation, while on the right the scrit and Hindoo t'ongu'es with the re- broad Channel stretched away with suit that we have been arguing for an hardly a sail to break its silvery uni- hour'or more without either of us con formtty. The Budd'his't and I were v'inlciog the other. Without pretending absolutely alone with Nature. I could to as deep, a theoretical' !knowledge n'ot 'help reflecting that if he were .as that which has made the name of, really the dangerous man that the 1Tohn Muller West a household word mate affected to consider him, 6r that 'among Oriental scholars, I happen to might be inferred from the .words of ,have given considerable attention to I had 'placed this .one point, and indeed: I am'. in a myself eemPlet`ely, in. his power,. .Yet position say tsuch was the majestic benignity of the man's' aspect, and the unruffled serenity of histdeep dark eyes, that (posit t t that 'L ku'ow, his views to • be unsound. II assure yo•i, sir, that tap to the year 700 or even',ia'ter,, 1 could afford. in this presence to lel Fear and slrspicion blow past me as. lightly as the breeze which whistled sound us. ILis face might be stern, and even terrible;' bit 1 felt that he could never -be unjust. As 1 glanced from time to time at his noble pro file incl the sweep o"hi a t s s jet .black Ibgarci his rough -spun tweed traveling suit struck .the with an almost painlol sense of incongruity, and',( re -cloth- ed hint in my imagination with the grand ,d sweeping 'Orieultal costume which is the fitting and proper frame for such a picture—the dilly garb which does not dle'traiet; fro'm,,t'he dig- nits and ,grace cif the. wearer. The place to which he led me was a small fisher collage which had been desert- ed some years before :by its tenant, but still ,stood ,gaiun't.and bare, with. the thatch, partlyo-'blolwn away and the windiaw.s and,. door in' sad dis- repair. 'This dwelling, which the poor= est Scotch beggar would have shrunk from, was the one which these; singu- lar mien had preferred 'toe the ; pro- ferred hospitality of the laird's hoose. A small garden, •now a mass of tang- led brambles, stood round it, and through this my acquaintance picked' his way to the ruined door. He glanc- ed into the house and 'filth waved his hand for me to follow him. "You now have an opportunity," the said , in a sulbdnred, ' reverential voice, "of seeing a spectacle which few .Europeans, have had the privil- ege of beholding. Inside that cottage you will find two' Yogis — men who are only one remove fro -m the high'; est plane of. adeptship. They are both wrapped in an ecstatic trance, other- wise I should prat venture: to obtrude your: presence upon them. Their as- tral bodies have departed from them, be present at the feast of lamps in the holy lamastery of Rudok in Phi - het. ,Tread lightly, lest Iby stimulat- ing their corporeal functions you re- call then before their devotions'are completed." 'Walking slowly and, on tiptoe, I picked my way through the weed - garden, and peered through ,the open doorway, There was no furniture in the dreary interior, nor anything to cover the Uneven floor save a litter of fresh straw in a corner. Among this straw two men were crouching, the one small and wizened, the 'other large -boned and gaunt, with their legs crossed in Oriental fashion and their heads sunk upon their 'breas'ts, ;Neither of them looked up nor took the smallest notice of our presence iThey were so still and silent that they might have been two bronze statutes but for the slow and measur- ed rhythm o'f their breathing. Their faces, however, had a peculiar ash- en gray color, very different from healthy 'brown of my com'panion's;. and ,I observed, on stooping my head, that only the whites of their eyes were visible, the ball's being turned upward beneath the lids. In front of them upon 0 small mat lay an earth- enware pitcher of water and half a loaf of bread, together with •a sheet of paper inscribed with certain ca- balistic characters. Ram Singh glanc- ed at these, and then, motioning me to withdraw, followed) me out into the .garden, "I' am not to disturb them until ten o'clock," he said, "You have now seen in operation one of the grand- est results of our occult philosophy, the dissociation of spirit from body, Not only are the spirits of these holy men standing at the present moment by the banks of the 'Ganges, but those spirits are clothed in a material cov- ering so identical with their real biddies that none of She faithful will ever doubt that Lal Hoomi and Mow- dar Khan are actually among them. This is accomplished by our power of resolving an object into its chemi- cal atoms, of conveying these atoms with a speed which exceeds that of lightning to any given spot, and of there re -precipitating them and-com- pel'ling them to retake their, original form, Of old it was necessary' to con- vey the whole body in this way, but we have since found that it was as easy and more convenient to trans- mit material enough nnerely to build up an outside shell .or semblance of a (body: This we have termed the astral body.' "Rut if you can transmit your spir- its so rea'd'ily," I observed, "why should they be accompanied by any body at all?"' ' "In comnn.nnica'ting with brother initiates we are abe to employ our spirits only; but when we wish to come in contact with ordinary man- kind it is essential that we should appear in some forst which they can see and comprehend," ' "You have interested' me deeply in all that you have told me," I said; grasping the hand which Ram Singh had, held dirt to me as a sign that our intenview was -at en end. "I shall of- ten 'think of our short acquaintance," "You win derive tnttohI>ene' ifit Brom it," he said sl'ow'ly,still holding my hand' and looking -gravel gravely and. 'sadly into my eyes. "You -must remember lthat what will h'appe;n in the future is nat necessarily„b'ad because it does nol fa:1 in with your preconceived ideas of right. . Be not hasty in your` judgments. • There are' certain great rules. which must be carried out, at whatever 'cost to individuals Their operation may ap'pear to you to be harsh and cruel,` but that is as troth - cr i com ared to the dangerous pre, ecdent which would be established by net enforcing them, The ox and the. sheep are safe from us, but the man with the blolod of the high:es:t upon his hands should not and shall not Ile threw up his arm's at the last words, with a fierce, threatening ges- ture, and. turningaway from me strode back to the ruined hut. I stood' gazing after him {{until he d'is'appeared thoough the dbortvlay, end ,th!en sleet- ed off. for.hom'e,'res'ol'ving In any mind all th'a't I had heard, and more .particu •laxly ,this last outburst ,of the occult Philosopher.' Par on the •night .I could see` the fail.White tower of 1C1oo'ntlber landing out clearecutand s'hamp against a dark cdoudl-lba'nk which rois'e be'hin'd it. a thought how any traveler wbto cha'n!ced to pass that wayy wound envy in ,his 'heart the tenant of ..that Magnificent building, and how 'little .they would. ,guess the Strange .ter ,pars, the nameless dangers, which were gathering about his head. Ove (black cloud -wrack was but ,the linage, II reflected, of the darker, more som- ber, storm Which was about to burst. "Whatever it all means, and hew - ever it happens,” 11 ejaculated', "God grant that 'the innocent be not con- founded ' with the guilty." iMy'father, when II reached 'Nome; was still in a 'ferment over his learn- ed disputation wi't'h the stranger ::'I trust, Tank," 'he staid, "that 0 did not handle htim 'too roughly. I should 're- me'mber that 'I alt in lobo •magis'tri, and be less proink to argue .with my guests. Y'e't,, when he took up this most untenable'position,tI could 'not refrain from attacking• him and 'hurl- ing 'hien mut o'f it, which indeed I did, t'h'ough you, 'Who are ignorant of the niceties of the question, may have fail- ed to perceive it. You observed, how- ever, that my reference to King Aso-, ka's edicts we's so conclusive that he at once rose and took his leave." "You held your 'bion bravely," I ,answened; "but what 'i's your ':itiupres cion of the man now that you have seen hint ?" "Why," said my father, "he is one of those holy men who under the var- ious names alf'S'annasis, Yogis, iSevr!as, ,Quaban'ders, IH'akims, and lCulfis have devoted their lives to ;the study of the mysteries of the IBuddlsist faith, He is, I take it, a t'heoslaphist, or worshipper of ,the 'God of .kno'wledge, the grade of 'w'hich is the adept, This roan .and his c'o'm'p'anions have not at- tained this 'high .position or they could not have ceotssed the sea with- out contamination. It is probable that they are all advanced chelas who 'hope in. time to attain to 'the supreme honor of adep'tshfp,"" "But, father," interrupted my sister, "this does not explain why men of such sanctity and attainments s'h'ould choose to take up their quarters on the shores of a desolate ,Scotch -bay." "Ah, there you get beyond me," my father answered. "I may suggest, how- ever, that it is nobabdy's +business but their own, as long as they keep .the peace and ane amenable to the law of the land." "Have you ever ,heard," T asked, "that thesehigher ones of whom yogi speak have powers 'which are un- known to us?" ' "Why, Eastern literature is full .of it, The Bible is an ,''astern hooky .and is it not fill' of the record of such powers from cover to cover? 'Itis un- questionable that they have in the past known many of Nature's secrets wh'i'ch ane lost to us: I cannot say, however, that the' modern theoso- phists really possess the powers that they claim," "Are they a vindicative class of peo- ple?" I asked. '"Is these any offense among their Which can only be ex- piated by x-piate'd'by death?" "Not that T know of," my Mather an- swered, raising his white' eyebrows. in surprise, "You appear to be in ,ab inlduisitive humor this afternoon -- what w'h:at is the object o'f all these ques- tions? Have our Eastern neighibons aroitsed your curiosity or suspicion in any way. ?'n I parried the question as best I might, for I 'was unwilling to let the old'' man know What ;was iii my mind. No goad purpose could comae from his .en Iigh'tentnen't; his age and this health demanded. rest rather than anxiety; and indeed with 'the, -best will in the world 1 should 'h'ave found it diffioult `too- explain to another wihat was so very ob'sicure to mysellf, For every reason '.T. felt that it was best that he should 'be kept in the dark. Never in all my exp1erience have !I knowna day pass so slowly as did that eventful 5th Of October In every pas!si'b1e manner I endeavored to w'h'ine away the tedious houns, .and yet it seemed as if darkness • 'would never arrive. I. tried .to read, I tried to write, I paced about the lawn, I walked to the' end of the lane, 'I put new flees ,on sly fishing -hooks, h began ,to in- dex my fath'er's li!bpary-in' a dozen ways,1 endelavored. to relieve the sus- 'pence wlhiic'it was. becoming 'irettl'le'i able. 114yr sister, I could see, was sulf- itering from the same feverish rest- `e:Ieness! 'Again and again our 'goad Eathet • crit tstnati d r ori e with .'tis in his Mild way for our. erratic behaviour and the eontinu!al interruption of his. v'ork which arose from it. At la'sit, however, 'the tea was ,brought, and the, tea was taken, the curtains were dal 'i w h la d the m 's.ht anal - A after an other intenneinalbbe interval the p'ray- ens were read and the servants 'dis- tni's'seKl to their ro'om's.' My father com pounded and swallowed his nightly j•arum of toddy, aid then shuffled off to his room, leaving the Iwo of us in the parlor with our nerves in a tingle and our minds full of the midst vague and yet terrible apprehensions. ;CHAPTER XIIV. Of The Visitor Who Ran: Down, the R'aad in 'the :Night -Time... it was a, quarter past ten o'clock 'by the parlor time -piece when'my fa- tth'er went off to .his room, and left 'Esther and myself. together. We heard 'his Sl'ow'steps dying away up the 'creaking stair -case, until the distant slamming of a door -announced 'that he had reached his s'anctu!m. 'Dim simple oil lamp .upon the table 'threw a weird, uncertain light over the old room, flickering upon the carved oak ,panel ing, and casting st'ran'ge,. fantastic sha- dowS from the high -elbowed straight- backed furniture. My sister's' white,. anxious face stood out in the •obscur- ity 'with a startling exactness of pro- file like one o'f 'Remlbrandt's port- raits. We sat opposite to each other on either side of the table, with no sound breaking the silence save the measured ticking of the clock and the intermittent chirping of a cricket be- neath the grate. There was something awe-inspiring in the a'bsolu'te stillness, The whistling o'f a belated peasant upon the highroad was a relief to us, and we strained our ears to catch the last of his notes as he plodded stead- ily h'o'meward: At first we had made some pre- tense=:sloe of knitting and I of read- ing;'but we soon abandoned the use- les's deception, and sat uneasily wait- ing, starting' and glancing at each other with queseloning; eyes when- ever the faggot crackled in t'he fire or a rat scampered behind the wainscot: There was a heavy electrical feeling in the air, which' weighed us down with a foreboding of disaster, I rose and flung the hall door open to admit the fresh breeze of . the night. Ragged clouds swept across the sky,,and the moon peeped out at times between their hurrying ,fringes,, bathing the whole country -sick in it scold, white radiance., From where I stood in the doorway a could see the edge of the IClaoin'ber wood, though .the house' it- self was only visible from the rising ground some little distance off. At my sister's suggestion we walked to- gether, she with her shawl over herhead, as far as the sunntit of, this elevation, and looked out in the direc- tion of tire Hall. There was no ilium- - illation of the windows to -night. Frons roof to basement not a 'light twinkled in any part of, the great build4n'g. Its huge mass loomed up dark and sul- len amid the 'trees which surrounded it, looking more like some giant sar- 'cop'hagus than a human 'habitation. To our overwrought nerves thele was something of terror in its mere bulk and its silence. We stood for some little time peering at it through the darkness, 'and then we made our way back to the parlor again, where we sat waiting—waiting,' we knew not for what, an'd yet with the absolute com viction that softie terrible experience was in store far us, It was twelve o'clock or close an to it 'when my sister suddenly' sprang' to herfeet and held up her finger to bespeak attention, "Do you heap no- thing?" she asked: ; a strained my ears, but without sic cess, '"Come ,to the door," she cried, with a trembling voice. 'Now, can you hear anything?" In the deep silence of the night I distinctly heard' a dull, murmuring, clattering sound, continuous apparent-, ly, but - very faint and low. "What is it?" I asked in a subdued voice. 'it's the sound of a man runn'in,g. toward us," she answered; and thea, suddenly dropping 'the last sembl- ance of selff=com:Mand, she fell upon' her knees, ,beside the table and began Praying aloud with. that frenzied ear- nestn'es's which ='intense, overpower- ing fear can'produce, breaking off now and again into half-hysterfcai whian- perin'gs. (Continued Next Week). ,For Catarrh. --1k is one o;f the, chief recommendations of D'r.,ThmMas'.E - lectric Oil that t can ibe used intern - Want and For Sale Ads, 3 tittles, 50c PROFESSIONAL CARDS Medical DR. H. RU101I 'RiOS!S, Physi.ciaui and Surgeon. Late of ' London Hos- pital, ' London, England.; Speoia9 attention to diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat.' Office - and res[ dence behind Dorniniori'Bank. Office Phone No, 5; Residence deice Phone 104 0)R. F. J. BURROWS, Seaforth. Office and residence, Goderich street, east of the: United C'hurc'h. Coroner for the County of Huron. Telephone No. 46. DR. C. 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