When we reached England Lieutenant Hill and I thought our dealings with spiritualism had served their purpose, but we now hope they may play an even better part. If this book saves one widow from lightly trusting the exponents of a creed that is crass and vulgar and in truth nothing better than a confused materialism, or one bereaved mother from preferring the unwholesome excitement of the séance and the trivial babble of a hired trickster to the healing power of moral and religious reflexion on the truths that give to human life its stability and worth—then the miseries and sufferings through which we passed in our struggle for freedom will indeed have had a most ample reward.

E. H. Jones.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
PREFACE[vii]
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS[xiii]
I.HOW SPOOKING BEGAN IN YOZGAD[1]
II.HOW THE CAMP TURNED SPIRITUALIST[9]
III.HOW THE MEDIUMS WERE TESTED[19]
IV.OF THE EPISODE OF LOUISE, AND HOW IT WAS ALL DONE[35]
V.IN WHICH THE READER IS INTRODUCED TO THE PIMPLE[46]
VI.IN WHICH THE COOK APPEARS AND THE SPOOK FINDS A REVOLVER[54]
VII.OF THE CALOMEL MANIFESTATION AND HOW KIAZIM FELL INTO THE NET[68]
VIII.IN WHICH WE BECOME THOUGHT-READERS[82]
IX.HOW THE SPOOK WROTE A MAGIC LETTER AND ARRANGED OUR ARREST[87]
X.HOW WE WERE TRIED AND CONVICTED FOR TELEPATHY[99]
XI.IN WHICH WE ARE PUT ON PAROLE BY OUR COLONEL, AND GO TO PRISON[109]
XII.OF THE COMRADES WE HAD LEFT BEHIND AND HOW POSH CASTLE PLAYED THE RAVEN[121]
XIII.IN WHICH THE PIMPLE LEARNS HIS FUTURE LIES IN EGYPT[132]
XIV.WHICH INTRODUCES OOO AND TELLS WHY THE PIMPLE GOT HIS FACE SMACKED[144]
XV.IN WHICH THE SPOOK PUTS OUR COLONEL ON PAROLE IN HIS TURN, SAVES THE HUNT CLUB, AND WRITES A SPEECH[155]
XVI.HOW WE FELL INTO A TRANCE AND SAW THE FUTURE[165]
XVII.HOW THE SPOOK TOOK US TREASURE-HUNTING AND WE PHOTOGRAPHED THE TURKISH COMMANDANT[173]
XVIII.OF A “DREADFUL EXPLOSION” AND HOW OOO SOUGHT TO MURDER US[185]
XIX.OF THE FOUR POINT RECEIVER AND HOW WE PLANNED TO KIDNAP THE TURKISH STAFF AT YOZGAD[199]
XX.IN WHICH WE ARE FOILED BY A FRIEND [215]
XXI.IN WHICH WE DECIDE TO BECOME MAD AND THE SPOOK GETS US CERTIFICATES OF LUNACY[222]
XXII.HOW THE SPOOK CORRESPONDED WITH THE TURKISH WAR OFFICE AND GOT A REPLY[234]
XXIII.IN WHICH THE SPOOK PERSUADES MOÏSE TO VOLUNTEER FOR ACTIVE SERVICE[239]
XXIV.OF OUR MAD JOURNEY TO MARDEEN[248]
XXV.HOW WE HANGED OURSELVES[257]
XXVI.IN WHICH THE SPOOK CONVICTS MOÏSE OF THEFT, CONVERTS HIM TO HONESTY, AND PROMISES OMNIPOTENCE[270]
XXVII.OF THE FIRST DAY IN HAIDAR PASHA HOSPITAL AND THE PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION BY THE SPECIALISTS[285]
XXVIII.OF THE WASSERMANN TESTS AND HOW WE DECEIVED THE MEDICAL BOARD[297]
XXIX.OF HILL’S TERRIBLE MONTH IN GUMUSH SUYU HOSPITAL[309]
XXX.IN WHICH WE ARE REPATRIATED AS LUNATICS[320]
POSTSCRIPT: WHAT THE PIMPLE THINKS OF IT ALL—THREE LETTERS[336]
APPENDIX I[343]
” II[347]
” III[349]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

“Hill had taken the first photograph before I was ready” (p. [180]). The Commandant, Pimple, and Cook at the finding of the first clue to the treasureFrontispiece
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The Ouija[4]
The lane where the prisoners exercised[48]
“On fine days they snoozed at their posts”—a gamekeeper on guard in Yozgad[68]
“I made my plans to go on skis and began to train”[74]
“The snow on the slope of South hill”—the site of the first clue to the treasure[122]
“We had four-a-side hockey tournaments”[124]
The “Posh-Castle Mess” who fed us in our imprisonment[130]
In the Pine Woods—“Winnie” and Nightingale on skis[164]
Where the second clue was buried—Bones’s Nullah[186]
“The Melancholic.”—C. W. Hill[230]
“The Furious.”—E. H. Jones[232]
The mad machine for uprooting England[302]
Autograph photograph of Mazhar Osman Bey and five other Haidar Pasha doctors (presented to the author by Talha Bey)[332]

THE ROAD TO EN-DOR

THE ROAD TO EN-DOR

CHAPTER I

HOW SPOOKING BEGAN IN YOZGAD