David Elginbrod

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s a perfectly

still failed in finding him. The day after the third failure, however, he received a note from Falconer, ment

I am out so much

Hugh. "I want to ask your help. May I begin at the beginning, a

lease. I shall understa

istory, in as far as it bore upon the stor

nk that it is from a love of talking tha

what can be done. Meantime I will keep my eyes and ears

a description of t

id Falconer. "I am pretty s

a what he could w

newspaper of this very day would have enabled me, without any previous knowledge of similar f

nds, apparently in triumphant confusion. Without a moment's hesitation, notwithstanding, he selected the paper

ults, have seen visions of the spirits of the deceased, or of beings claiming to be such, and of numerous angels and other beings of the spiritual world. These have in all cases supported the purest and most liberal Christianity. The facult

t this can be a veritable paper of to-day?

rld, Mr. Sutherland, than there

ding. He came at len

and confirm our faith in the Christian doctrines...The character they give of the class of spirits who are in the habit of communicating with morta

ad this pas

on communicated in that highly articulate manner, Calvinism, high and low, has predominated. I strongly suspect the crystal phant

ecuring the ring; for certainly, however deficient he may be in such knowledge, he is not l

better, uses. Besides, Lady Blessington's crystal might

Euph

. This might reveal demons and their counsels, while that

r, that the count had been too much of a

ion. In fact, there is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The mo

my story which I omitted, as ir

t. It cannot fail

Hugh was compelled, in responding to the natural interest of Falconer, to give a description of David. This led to a sketch of his own sojourn at Turriepuffit; in which the character of

ull of impudence and irreverence. Perhaps the wretched beings may want another thousand years' damn

quite unde

as you describe is laughing with the devil and his angels, as

ld hardly b

im could not get through the

derstand yo

remnants. After that, chair or table or anything that they can come into contact with, possesses quite sufficient organization for such. Don't you remember that once, rather than ha

there was something

ser for that? I should as soon expect to gain wisdom by taking off my clothes, and to lose it by getting into bed; or to rise into the seventh heaven of spirituality by having my hair cut. An impudent forgery of that good man's name! If I were you, Sutherland, I would have nothing to do with such a low set. They are

s the confidence with which he had inspired him, that Hugh felt at perfect liberty to answer them a

he first half of the answer, as Lord Bacon says; and you can put no question without having first formed a theory, however slight or temporary; for otherwise no

," said Hugh. "Could you say, without fettering yoursel

with you.-Next Sunday; here; at ten o'

can afford to forget my sole pleasure. You, I should think, have more need to ma

my engagements

d Hugh went hom