In the realm of spiritual darkness you will be left to wander alone, and alone to expiate your crimes.
As it has been here, so will it be there, for you and you alone to determine whether you will follow the path which leads onward and upward to infinite light, perfect happiness and eternal life; or backward and downward along the pathway of deepest darkness to disintegration, dissolution, individual extinction, and a resolution back into nature’s elements. Farewell.
CHAPTER XIII.
“A maximis ad minima.”
PHLOGISTON IS RESTORED.
And now, an awful silence brooded in that fateful chamber. The Great Light had vanished. Darkness was there.
And then, as swiftly as came sleep, so now the awakening of Bill Vanderhook and his wife.
“Gee, I nearly slipped”—muttered the druggist “That infernal machine must have made me dizzy for a second.”