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CHAPTER X DE PROFUNDIS
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THEY were still having tea when Mr. Charles Mason was ushered1 in. Nothing draws people together into such intimate soul-to-soul relationship as psychic2 quest, and thus it was that Roxton and Malone, who had only known him in the one episode, felt more near to this man than to others with whom they had associated for years. This close vital comradeship is one of the outstanding features of such communion. When his loosely-built, straggling, lean, clerical figure appeared, with that gaunt, worn face illuminated3 by its human grin and dignified4 by its earnest eyes, through the doorway5, they both felt as if an old friend had entered. His own greeting was equally cordial.
“Still exploring!” he cried, as he shook them by the hand. “We will hope your new experiences will not be so nerve-racking as our last.”
“By Jove, padre!” said Roxton. “I’ve worn out the brim of my hat taking it off to you since then.”
“Why, what did he do?” asked Mrs. Mailey.
“No, no!” cried Mason. “I tried in my poor way to guide a darkened soul. Let us leave it at that. But that is exactly what we are here for now, and what these dear people do every week of their lives. It was from Mr. Mailey here that I learned how to attempt it.”
“Well, certainly we have plenty of practice,” said{167} Mailey. “You have seen enough of it, Mason, to know that.”
“But I can’t get the focus of this at all!” cried Malone. “Could you clear my mind a little on the point? I accept for the moment your hypothesis, that we are surrounded by material earth-bound spirits who find themselves under strange conditions which they don’t understand, and who want counsel and guidance. That more or less expresses it, does it not?”
The Maileys both nodded their agreement.
“Well, their dead friends and relatives are presumably on the other side and cognisant of their
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materialist
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