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VENERATED5 SIRE,—In an early letter I made some reference to a variety of demon2 invoked by certain of the barbarians6. As this matter aroused your congenial interest, I have since privately8 bent9 my mind incessantly10 to the discovery of others; but this has been by no means easy, for, touching12 the more intimate details of the subject, the barbarians frequently maintain a narrow-minded suspicion. Many whom I have approached feign13 to become amused or have evaded14 a deliberate answer under the subterfuge15 of a jest; yet, whenever I would have lurked16 by night in their temples or among the enclosed spaces of their tombs to learn more, at a given signal one in authority has approached me with anxiety and mistrust engraved17 upon his features, and, disregarding my unassuming protest that I would remain alone in a contemplative reverie, has signified that so devout18 an exercise is contrary to their written law.
On one occasion only did this person seem to hold himself poised19 on the very edge of a fuller enlightenment. This was when, in the venerable company of several benevolent20 persons, he was being taken from place to place to see the more important buildings, and to observe the societies of artificers labouring at their crafts. The greater part of the day had already been spent in visiting temples, open spaces reserved to children and those whose speech, appearance, and general manner of behaving make it desirable that they should be set apart from the contact of the impressionable, halls containing relics21 and emblems22 of the past, places of no particular size or attraction but described as being of unparalleled historic interest, and the stalls of the more reputable venders of merchandise.
Doubtless, with observing so many details of a conflicting nature, this person’s discriminating23 faculties24 had become obscured, but towards evening he certainly understood that we sought the company of an assembly of those who had been selected from all the Empire to pronounce definitely upon matters of supreme25 import. The building before which our chariot stopped had every appearance of being worthy26 of so exceptional a gathering27, and with a most affluent28 joy that I should at last be able to glean29 a decisive pronouncement, I evaded those who had accompanied me, and, mingling30 self-reliantly with the throng31 inside, I quickly surrounded myself with many of the wisest-looking, and begged that they would open their heads freely and express their innermost opinions upon the subject of demons of all kinds.
Although I had admittedly hoped that these persons would not conceal32 themselves behind the wings of epigram or intangible prevarication34, I was far from being prepared for the candour with which they greeted me, and although by long usage I am reasonably unconcerned at the proximity35 of any of our own recognised genii, it is not to be denied that my organs of ferocity grew small and unstable36 at the revelations.
From their words it appeared that the spot on which we stood had long been the recognised centre and meeting-place for every class of abandoned and objectionable spirit of the universe. Not only this, but several of the persons who had gathered around were confidently pointed37 out as the earthly embodiment of various diabolical38 Forces, while others cheerfully admitted that they themselves were the shadows of certain illustrious ones who had long Passed Above, and all united in declaring that those who moved among them wearing the distinction of a dark blue uniform were Evil Beings of a most ghoulish and repulsive40 type. Indeed, as I looked more closely, I could see that not only those pointed out, but all standing41 around, had expressions immeasurably more in keeping with a band of outcast spirits than suggestive of an assembly representing wisdom and dignified42 ease. At that moment, however, a most inelegant movement was caused by one suddenly declaring that he had recognised this one who is inscribing44 his experiences to be the apparition45 of a certain great reformer who during the period of his ordinary existence had received the name of Guy Fawkes, and amid a tumult46 of overwhelming acclamation a proposal was raised that I should be carried around in triumph and afterwards initiated47 into the observance of a time-honoured custom. Although it had now become doubtful to what end the adventure was really tending, this person would have submitted himself agreeably to the participation48 had not the blue-apparelled band cleft49 their way into the throng just as I was about to be borne off in triumph, and forming themselves into a ringed barrier around me they presently succeeded in rearranging the contending elements and in restoring me to the society of my friends. To these persons they complained with somewhat unreasoning acrimony that I had been exciting the inmates50 into a state of rebellion with wild imaginings, and for the first time I then began to understand that an important error had been perpetrated by some one, and that instead of being a meeting-place for those upholding the wisdom and authority of the country, the building was in reality an establishment for the mentally defective51 and those of treacherous52 instincts.
For some time after this occurrence I failed to regard the subject of demons and allied53 Forces in any but a spirit of complete no enthusiasm, but more recently my interest and research have been enlarged by the zeal54 and supernatural conversation of a liberal-minded person who sought my prosaic55 society with indefatigable56 persistence57. When we had progressed to such a length that the one might speak of affairs without the other at once interposing that he himself had also unfortunately come out quite destitute58 of money, this stranger, who revealed to me that his name was Glidder, but that in the company of a certain chosen few he was known intimately as the Keeper of the Salograma, approached me confidentially59, and inquired whether we of our Central Kingdom were in the habit of receiving manifestations61 from the spirits of those who had Passed Beyond.
At the unassumed ingenuousness62 of this remark I suffered my impassiveness to relax, as I replied with well-established pride that although a country which neglected its ancestors might doubtless be able to produce more of the ordinary or graveyard63 spectres, we were unapproachable for the diverse forms and malignant64 enmity of our apparitions65. Of invisible beings alone, I continued tolerantly, we had the distinction of being harassed66 by upwards67 of seven hundred clearly-defined varieties, while the commoner inflictions of demons, shades, visions, warlocks, phantoms69, sprites, imps70, phenomena71, ghosts, and reflections passed almost without comment; and touching our admitted national speciality of dragons, the honour of supremacy72 had never been questioned.
At this, the agreeable person said that the pleasure he derived73 from meeting me was all-excelling, and that I must certainly accompany him to a meeting-place of this same chosen few the following evening, when, by the means of sacred expedients74, they hoped to invoke3 the presence of some departed spirits, and perchance successfully raise a tangible33 vision or two. To so fair-minded a proposal I held myself acquiescently, and then inquired where the meeting-place in question was destined75 to be—whether in a ruined and abandoned sanctuary76, or upon some precipitous spot of desolation.
The inquiry77 was gracefully78 intended, but a passing cloud of unworthy annoyance79 revealed itself upon the upper part of the other’s expression as he replied, “We, the true seekers, despise theatrical80 accessories, and, as a matter of act, I couldn’t well get away from the office in time to go anywhere far. To-morrow we meet at my place in the Camden Road. It’s only a three-half-penny tram stage from the Euston and Tottenham Court corner, so it couldn’t be much more convenient for you.” He thereupon gave me an inscribed81 fragment of paper and mentioned the appointed hour.
“I’ll tell you why I am particularly anxious for you to come to-morrow,” he said as we were each departing from one another. “Pash—he’s the Reader of the Veda among us—and his people have got hold of a Greek woman (they SAY she is a princess, of course), who can do a lot of things with flowers and plate glass. They are bringing her for the first time to-morrow, and it struck me that if I have YOU there already when they arrive—you’ll come in your national costume by the way?—it will be a considerable set-off. Since his daughter was presented to the duchess at the opening of a bazaar82, there has been no holding Pash; why he was ever elected Reader of the Books, I don’t know. Er—we have had scoffers sometimes, but I trust I may rely upon you not to laugh at anything you may not happen to agree with?”
With conscientious83 dignity I replied that I had only really laughed seven times in my life, and therefore the entertainment was one which I was not likely to embark84 upon hastily or with inadequate85 cause. He immediately expressed a seemly regret that the detail had been spoken, and again assuring him that at the stated hour I would present myself at the house bearing the symbol engraved upon the card, we definitely parted.
That, as a matter of fact, I did not so present myself at the exact hour, chiefly concerns the uncouth87 and arbitrary-minded charioteer who controlled the movements of the vehicle to which the one whom I was seeking had explicitly88 referred; for at an angle in the road he suffered the horses to draw us aside into a path which did not correspond to the engraved signs upon the card, nor by any word of persuasion89 could he be prevailed upon to return.
Thus, without any possible reproach upon the manner in which I was conducting the enterprise, it came about that by the time I reached the spot indicated, all those persons who had been spoken of as constituting a chosen band were assembled, and with them the barbarian7 princess. Nevertheless, this person was irreproachably90 greeted, and the maiden91 indicated even spoke86 a few words to him in an outside tongue. Being necessarily unacquainted with the import of the remark I spread out my hands with a sign of harmonious92 sympathy and smiled agreeably, whereat she appeared to receive an added esteem93 from the faces of those around (excluding those directly of the House of Glidder), and was thereby94 encouraged to speak similarly at intervals95, this person each time replying in a like fashion.
“Is he then a Guide of the Way, also, princess?” said the one Pash, who had noted96 the occurrence; to which the maiden replied, “To a degree, yet lacking the Innermost Mysteries.”
Presently it was announced that all things were fittingly prepared in another chamber97. Here, upon a table of polished wood, stood on the one side a round stone with certain markings, a group of inscribed books, and various other emblems; and on the other side a bowl of water, a sphere of crystal, pieces of unwritten parchment, and behind all, and at a distance away, a sheet of transparent98 glass, greater in height than an ordinary person and as wide. When all were seated—the one who had enticed99 me among them placing himself before the stone, the person Pash guarding the books, the barbarian princess being surrounded by her symbols and alone in a self-imposed solitude100, and the others at various points—the lights were subdued101 and the appearances awaited.
It would scarcely be respectful, O my enlightened father, to take up your well-spent leisure by a too prolific102 account of the matters which followed, they being in no way dissimilar from the manifestations by which the uninitiated little ones of Yuen-ping are wont103 to amuse themselves and pass the winter evenings. From time to time harmonious sounds could be plainly detected, flowers and branches of wood were scattered104 sparsely105 here and there, persons claimed that passing objects had touched their faces, and misshapen forms of smoke-like density106 (which some confidently recognised as the outlines of departed ones whom they had known), revealed themselves against the glass. When this had been accomplished107, the lights were recalled, and the barbarian maiden, sinking into a condition of languor108, announced and foretold109 events and happenings upon which she was consulted, sometimes replying by spoken words, at others suffering her hand to trace them lightly upon the parchment sheets. Thus, to an inquirer it was announced that one, Aunt Mary, in the Upper Air, was well and happy, though undeniably pained at the action of Cousin William in the matter of the freehold houses, and more than sceptical how his marriage would turn out. Another was advised that although the interest on Consols was admittedly lower than that anticipated by those controlling the destines of a new venture entitled, The Great Rosy110 Dawn Gold Mine Development Syndicate, and the name certainly less poetically111 inspiring, the advising spirits were of the opinion that the former enterprise would prove the more stable of the two, and, in any case, they recommended the person in question to begin by placing not more than half of her life’s savings112 into the mine. The family of the House of Pash was assured that beneficent spirits surrounded them at every turn, and that their good deeds were not suffered to fall unfruitfully to the ground; while many bearing the name of Glidder, on the other hand, were reproved by one who had known them in infancy113 for the offences of jealousy114, ostentation115, vain thoughts, shallowness of character, and the like.
At length, revered116, as there seemed to be no reasonable indication of any barbarian phantom68 of weight or authority appearing—nothing, indeed, beyond what a person in our country, of no admitted skill, would accomplish in the penetrating117 light of day with two others holding his hands, and a third reposing118 upon his head, I formed the perhaps immature119 judgment120 that the one to whom I was indebted for the entertainment would be suffering a grievous frustration121 of his hopes and a diminution122 of his outward authority. Therefore, without sufficient consideration of the restricted surroundings, as it afterwards appeared, I threw myself into a retrospective vision, and floating unencumbered through space, I sought for Kwan Kiang-ti, the Demon of the Waters, upon whom I might fittingly call, as I was given into his keeping by the ceremony of spirit-adoption at an early age. Meeting an influence which I recognised to be an indication of his presence, in the vicinity of the Eighth Region, I obsequiously123 entreated125 that he would reveal himself without delay, and then, convinced of his sympathetic intervention126, I suffered my spirit to recall itself, and revived into the condition of an ordinary existence.
“We have among us this evening, my friends,” the one Pash was saying, “a very remarkable127 lady—if I may use so democratic a term in the connection—to whom the limits of Time and Space are empty words, and before whose supreme Will the most portentous128 Forces of Occult Nature mutely confess themselves her attending slaves—” But at that moment the rolling drums of Kiang-ti’s thunder drowned his words, although he subsequently raised his voice above it to entreat124 that any knives or other articles of a bright and attractive kind should at once be removed to a place of safety.
Heralded129 by these continuous sounds, and accompanied by innumerable flashes of lightning, the genius presently manifested himself, leisurely130 developing out of the air around. He appeared in his favourite guise131 of an upright dragon, his scales being arranged in rows of nine each way, a pearl showing within his throat, and upon his head the wooden bar. The lights were extinguished incapably132 by the rain which fell continually in his presence, but from his body there proceeded a luminous133 breath which sufficiently134 revealed the various incidents.
“Kong Ho,” said this opportune135 vision, speaking with a voice like the beating of a brass136 gong, “the course you have adopted is an unusual one, but the weight and regularity137 of your offerings have merit in my eyes. Nevertheless, if your invocation is only the outcome of a shallow vanity or a profane138 love of display, nothing can save you from a painful death. Speak now, fully39 and without evasion139, and fear nothing.”
“Amiable Being,” said this person, kow-towing profoundly, “the matter was designed to the end only that your incomparable versatility140 might be fittingly displayed. These barbarians sought vainly to raise phantoms capable of any useful purpose, whereupon I, jealous of your superior omnipotence141, judged it would be an unseemly neglect not to inform you of the opportunity.”
“It is well,” said the demon affably. “All doubt in the matter shall now be set at rest. Could any more convincing act be found than that I should breath upon these barbarians and reduce them instantly to a scattering142 of thin white ashes?”
“Assuredly it would be a conclusive143 testimony,” I replied; “yet in that case consider how inadequate a witness could be borne to your enlightened condescension144, when none would be left but one to whom the spoken language of this Island is more in the nature of a trap than a comfortable vehicle.”
“Your reasoning is profound, Kong Ho,” he replied, “yet abundant proof shall not be wanting.” With these words he raised his hand, and immediately the air became filled with an overwhelming shower of those productions with which Kwan Kiang-ti’s name is chiefly associated—shells and pebbles145 of all kinds, lotus and other roots from the river banks, weeds from seas of greater depths, fish of interminable variety from both fresh and bitter waters, all falling in really embarrassing abundance, and mingled146 with an incessant11 rain of sand and water. In the midst of this the demon suddenly passed away, striking the table as he went, so that it was scarred with the brand of a five-clawed hand, shattering all the objects upon it (excepting the stone and the books, which he doubtless regarded as sacred to some extent), and leaving the room involved in a profound darkness.
“For the love av the saints—for the love av the saints, save us from the yellow devils!” exclaimed a voice from the spot where last the barbarian princess had reclined, and upon this person going to her assistance with lights it was presently revealed that she alone had remained seated, the others having all assembled themselves beneath the table in spite of the incapability147 of the space at their disposal. Most of the weightier evidences of Kwan Kiang-ti’s majestic148 presence had faded away, though the table retained the print of his impressive hand, many objects remained irretrievably torn apart, and in a distant corner of the room an insignificant149 heap of shells and seaweed still lingered. From the floor covering a sprinkling of the purest Fuh-chow sand rose at every step, the salt dew of the Tung-Hai still dropped from the surroundings, and, at a later period, a shore crab150 was found endeavouring to make its escape undetected.
Convinced that the success of the manifestation60 would have enlarged the one Glidder’s esteem towards me to an inexpressible degree, I now approached him with words of self-deprecation ready on my tongue, but before he spoke I became aware, from the nature of his glance, that the provision had been unnecessary, for already his face had begun to assume, to a most distended151 amount, the expression which I had long recognised as a synonym152 that some detail had been regarded at a different angle from that anticipated.
“May I ask,” he began in a somewhat heavily-laden voice, after he had assured himself that the person who was speaking was himself, and his external attributes unchanged, “May I ask, sir” (and at this title, which is untranslatable in its many-sided significance when technically153 employed, I recognised that all complimentary154 intercourse155 might be regarded as having closed), “whether you accept the responsibility of these proceedings156?”
“Touching the appearance which has so essentially157 contributed to the success of the occasion, it is undeniably due to this one’s foresight,” I replied modestly.
“Yet,” protested this person with retiring assertiveness159, “the expressed object of the ceremony, as it stood before my intelligence, was for the set purpose of invoking160 spirits and raising certain visions.”
“Spirits!” exclaimed the one before me with an accent of concentrated aversion; “yes, spirits; impalpable, civilised, genuine spirits, who manifest themselves through recognised media, and are conformable to the usages of the best drawing-room society—yes. But not demons, sir; not Chinese devils in the Camden Road—no. Truth and Light at any cost, not paganism. It’s perfectly161 scandalous. Look at the mahogany table—ruined; look at the wall-paper—conventional mackerels with a fishing-net background, new this spring—soused; look at the Brussels carpet, seventeen six by twenty-five—saturated!”
“I quite agree with you, Mr. Glidder,” here interposed the individual Pash. “I was watching you, sir, closely the whole time, and I have my suspicions about how it was done. I don’t know whether Mr. Glidder has any legal redress162, but I should certainly advise him to see his solicitors163 to-morrow, and in the meantime—”
“He is my guest,” exclaimed the one whose hospitality I was enjoying, “and while he is beneath my roof he is sacred.”
“But I do not think that it would be kind to detain him any longer in his wet things,” said another of the household, with pointed malignity164, and accepting this as an omen43 of departure, I withdrew myself, bowing repeatedly, but offering no closer cordiality.
“Through a torn sleeve one drops a purse of gold,” it is well said; and as if to prove to a deeper end that misfortune is ever double-handed, this incapable165 being, involved in thoughts of funereal166 density, bent his footsteps to an inaccurate167 turning, and after much wandering was compelled to pass the night upon a desolate168 heath—but that would be the matter of another narrative169.
With an insidious170 doubt whether, after all, the far-seeing Kwan Kiang-ti’s first impulse would not have been the most satisfactory conclusion to the enterprise.
KONG HO.
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