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Where else then could He have sojourned but in Hades that unseen world of the dead into which all men pass when they lay aside their mortal bodies, and begin to live in spiritual bodies."
The House-boat of the Associated Shades, formerly located upon the River Styx, as the reader may possibly remember, had been torn from its moorings and navigated out into unknown seas by that vengeful pirate Captain Kidd, aided and abetted by some of the most ruffianly inhabitants of Hades.
The hapless city which dark Hades ingulfed really belonged to Antony, for in the days of its prosperity he was its founder." He measured the group with a defiant glance, and there was no lack of evidences of horror; nay, one of the maid-servants shrieked aloud, for the storm had just snatched a torch from the iron rings in the wall and hurled it on the floor close beside the listener.
Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one another. And which of the gods was it that set them on to quarrel?
They subsisted in all their strength in Assyria, and must have had all the consequences, all the social effects that they had elsewhere, and yet we find mentioned a home for the dead, a joyless country in which they could assemble in their countless numbers; as Egypt had its Ament and Greece her Hades, so Chaldæa and Assyria had their hell, their place of departed ghosts.
"Very," said I. "But how will this affect Blackstone? Isn't he a City Judge?" "No," replied Boswell; "he was, but his term expired this morning, and this afternoon Apollyon appointed him Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hades." "Boswell," said I, the other night, as the machine began to click nervously.
On account of these things, then, a man ought to be confident about his soul who, during this life, has disregarded all the pleasures and ornaments of the body as foreign from his nature, and who, having thought that they do more harm than good, has zealously applied himself to the acquirement of knowledge, and who, having adorned his soul, not with a foreign, but its own proper ornament temperance, justice, fortitude, freedom, and truth thus waits for his passage to Hades, as one who is ready to depart whenever destiny shall summon him.
Once, when he passed near me, I heard him cry out: "Is there no living soul in all this void and voiceless desert?" And, as he hurried by, I recognised him as a man whom I had often heard say on earth that hell would not be hell to him so long as he and his boon companions were together. Another whom I saw in Hades I should save for his pitiable effort to escape observation have passed unnoticed.
He had passed over the plains where iron and coal supersede turf and corn, dingy as the entrance of Hades, and flaming with furnaces; and now he was among illumined factories with more windows than Italian palaces, and smoking chimneys taller than Egyptian obelisks.
But why in Hades you can't let her be happy, too, is more'n I can figure! Guess you get your notions from two generations back and some!" Ross began, stumblingly. "I did not know I was indebted to you, Mr. Thaddler." "You're not, young man, you're not! I ran that shop of yours a year built up the business and sold it for more than I paid for this. So you've no room for heroics none at all.
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