CHAPTER XIV.Mr. Bangs on the Trail in the West.—Terre Haute and its Spiritualists.—Mrs. Deck’s Boarding-house.—The Nettleton Family broken up.—Back at the Michigan Exchange.—Mother Blake’s Recital.—Through Chicago to Wisconsin.—A disheartening Story.—The practical result of Spiritualism.
SUPERINTENDENT BANGS arrived at Terre Haute in good time, and found himself in one of the greatest centres of Spiritualism in the world.
The very air seemed charged and surcharged with the permeating power. People watching incoming trains had a listless, far-away look, as though watching for the dim spirits which were constantly expected from the other land, but which never came. The clamorous cabmen raised their sing-song voices as if only expecting, though more than desiring, only shadowy freight. The
