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Possessed By: Cleveland Moffett (1863-1926) |
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by CLEVELAND MOFFETT Author of "Through the Wall", etc. NEW YORK THE JAMES A. McCANN COMPANY 1920 Copyright 1920 by THE JAMES A. McCANN COMPANY All Rights Reserved Printed in U. S. A.
DEDICATION Whatever the defects or limitations of this story, I can assure my
readers that it is largely based on truth. Many of the incidents,
including the dual personality phenomena, were suggested by actual
happenings known to me. The doctor who accomplishes cures by occult
methods is a friend of mine, who lives and practises in New York City.
Seraphine, the medium, is also a real person. The episode that is
explained by waves of terror passing from one apartment to another and
separately affecting three unsuspecting persons is not imaginary, but
drawn from an almost identical happening that I, myself, witnessed in
Paris, France. And the truth about women that I have tried to tell has
been largely obtained from women themselves, women in various walks of
life, who have been kind enough to give me most of the opinions and
experiences that are contained in Penelope's diary. To them I now
gratefully dedicate this book. C. M.
CONTENTS PAGE PROLOGUE 1 CHAPTER I. VOICES 6 II. WHAT PENELOPE COULD NOT TELL THE DOCTOR 18 III. A BOWL OF GOLD FISH 42 IV. FIVE PURPLE MARKS 46 V. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AT THE STUDIO 53 VI. EARTH BOUND 62 VII. JEWELS 70 VIII. WHITE SHAPES 80 IX. THE CONFESSIONAL CLUB 90 X. FAUVETTE 103 XI. THE EVIL SPIRIT 111 XII. X K C 115 XIII. TERROR 128 XIV. POSSESSED 142 XV. DR. LEROY 149 XVI. IRRESPONSIBLE HANDS 161 XVII. THE HOUR OF THE DREAM 169 XVIII. PLAYING WITH FIRE 179 XIX. PRIDE 192 XX. THE MIRACLE 199 XXI. THE TRUTH ABOUT WOMEN THAT NOBODY TELLS 210 EPILOGUE 252 " Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues
of life. " PROVERBS, Chapter IV, Verse 23 .
POSSESSED
( June, 1914 ) SCARLET LIGHTS
This story presents the fulfillment of an extraordinary prophecy made
one night, suddenly and dramatically, at a gathering of New Yorkers,
brought together for hilarious purposes, including a little supper, in
the Washington Square apartment of Bobby Vallis her full name was
Roberta. There were soft lights and low divans and the strumming of a
painted ukulele that sang its little twisted soul out under the caress
of Penelope's white fingers. I can still see the big black opal in its
quaint setting that had replaced her wedding ring and the yellow serpent
of pliant gold coiled on her thumb with two bright rubies for its eyes.
Penelope Wells! How little we realized what sinister forces were playing
about her that pleasant evening as we smoked and jested and sipped our
glasses, gazing from time to time up the broad vista of Fifth Avenue
with its lines of receding lights. There had been an impromptu session of the Confessional Club during
which several men, notably a poet in velveteen jacket, had vouchsafed
sentimental or matrimonial revelations in the most approved Greenwich
Village style. And the ladies, unabashed, had discussed these things. But not a word did Penelope Wells speak of her own matrimonial troubles,
which were known vaguely to most of us, although we had never met the
drunken brute of a husband who had made her life a torment... Continue reading book >>
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