nd he escaped unhurt.

In College Road, Clifton, Bristol, an octogenarian thinking he would
add novelty to the Jubilee celebrations at the College, leaped off the
roof of his house, crying, "I'll fly over the Close! I will fly over
the Close!"--and broke his neck.

In St. Ives, Cornwall, where the treatment of animals is none too
humane, a fisher-boy threw a visitor's Pomeranian over the Malakoff
saying, "You shall fly! You shall remain in the air;" whilst at Bath a
girl of ten, snatching her baby brother from the perambulator, leaped
over Beechen Cliff, calling out, "We will fly together! We will fly
together!"

These are only a few of the many similar cases Shiel read in the
paper, and which he narrated afterwards to Gladys Martin.

"I am quite convinced," Gladys said, "that Kelson does his flying
through supernatural agency. His assertion that it can be done through
mere will power, is sheer humbug. It wouldn't be a bad idea to consult
a clairvoyant. What do you think?"

Shiel thought it was an excellent suggestion. He saw in it an
opportunity of spending yet another afternoon in Gladys's company, and
asked her to go with him to an occultist the very next day. When she
assented, the pleasure of it tingled through every pore of his skin.
Of course, Gladys assured herself there was no harm in her acceptance
of Shiel's escort--that neither he nor she meant anything by it--that
it was on her part merely a sort of an acknowledgment that he had been
awfully good to her in her present predicament. Besides, if she needed
further excuse, she had no reason for supposing Shiel to be in love
with her--and had her father not spoken to her about it, she would not
have remarked anything different in his glances, from the glances--for
the time being, perhaps, earnest enough--bestowed upon her by other
young men; which excuse, was, certainly, in Gladys's case, a more or
less honest one.

They had some difficulty in selecting a psychometrist--so numerous
were those who advertised, in an equally alluring manner--but they at
length decided in favour of Madame Elvita, whose consulting rooms were
in New Bond Street. When they arrived there, Madame Elvita was, of
course, engaged. Shiel was delighted--it gave him an extra half-hour
with Gladys. When Madame was free, she had much to tell them. First of
all she spoke to them of Karmas, Kamadevas, Rupadevas, vitalized
shells, etheric doubles, the Nermanakaya, and afterwards solemnly
an