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Updated: July 7, 2025
That was what Doc was waitin' for, and he popped right up. "'I should like to talk to Bacon, he says. "'Bacon? says Moller. 'There's a good many Bacons in spirit-land. Which one do you want to speak to, brother?" "'The one that lived when Shakespeare did, says Doc. 'The one that wrote the essays and sich. Sir Francis Bacon. "'Ah, yes! says Moller.
William seemed perplexed by this remark; but he comprehended in part, and said, "Me see into Spirit-Land." When asked why he had not started in search of his mother then, he replied, "A-lee-lah's father, mother die. A-lee-lah say not go. Miles big many. Me not know the trail. But Indians go hunt fur. Me go. Me sleep. Me dream mother come, say go home. Me ask where mother? Charles come.
They took the dead and wounded and deposited them near where the led-horses were kept. The injured men were attended to, and the dead buried carefully in robes. "One warrior lies dead near the feet of Yellow-Eyes; if they get his scalp he will go to the hungry islands in the middle of the Big Water and we shall never see him in the spirit-land. We must not let them touch his hair, brothers.
Almost his last whispered words to me were that he would be able to assist me more in the Spirit-land than ever he could hope to do in the flesh.
"Miss Abby," he said, "possesses soul-matter of a texture to which the souls of these strong men naturally adhere. In the spirit-land the superfluities repel each other; the individual souls seek to remedy their imperfections: in the union of opposites only is to be found the great harmonia of life.
Now, I will tell you the great trouble we have with people when they first come to the spirit-land, and that is to induce them to forget entirely the world they have relinquished. Men whose families are in poor circumstances, or men whose affairs are in a disordered state, find it very difficult to keep from trying to set things right again.
But while he stood there, an angel with golden hair and gleaming wings bent over him, holding precious heart-seed, gathered from the white plains of the spirit-land, and as the child drew nearer the church steps, the angel followed. Suddenly the little dapper sexton, with his broad smile and bustling gait, came out of the church.
And now, before her terrified soul, swept phantom after phantom, all from the miserable spirit-land of the past. Once more she lived through a night dark as this, when a wretched, betrayed, dishonored girl, she had slunk through the streets of Rome in search of death death and annihilation in the black waves of the Tiber.
Leelinau, too, was there, unyielding, yet proud of a devotion unheard of in the annals of her nation. She looked haughtily as on a spectacle devised in her honor, of which she should be celebrated as the heroine, long after her feet should have travelled the path that leads to the Spirit-land.
"Question 'What city is this? Answer 'The Blue City. Question 'Who lives here? Answer 'The Indians. Question 'What Indians? Answer 'The American Indians. Question 'Why are they the first city we come to in the spirit-land, on the plane, and most accessible? Answer 'Because the Indians lived more in accordance with the law of nature in their earth life, according to their knowledge, and were the most abused class by the whites except the slaves, and many of them now are in advance of the whites in 'spirituality, and are the most powerful ministering spirits sent forth to minister to those who shall be heirs of salvation.
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