The Mystics: A Novel

CHAPTER I

Of all the sensations to which the human mind is a prey, there is none so powerful in its finality, so chilling in its sense of an impending event as the knowledge that Death--grim, implacable Death--has cast his shadow on a life that custom and circumstance have rendered familiar. Whatever the personal feeling may be--whether dismay, despair, or relief--no man or woman ca...