Francis Worcester Doughty

Name: Mirrikh, or, A Woman from Mars — Chapter 23
Author: Francis Worcester Doughty

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“Mirrikh, or, A Woman from Mars — Chapter 23”, published in 1892, is a work by Francis Worcester Doughty. It explores elements such as Maurice, Walla and lamas.

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Francis Worcester Doughty, Mirrikh, or, A Woman from Mars… (1892)

“ Where is she, George?”
I felt a shiver pass over me. Was he mad?
“Do you mean Walla? She is here, Maurice.”
The girl stood facing him; her lips tightly set, her face as livid as the face of a corpse.
“No, no! I don’t mean Walla at all. You know very well who I mean, George Wylde. You saw her in Mars, Mirrikh told me so. Where is she, I say?”
“I do not understand you,” I replied. “Try and pull yourself together, old fellow. Your mind is wandering. Doctor, for God’s sake do something. He is mad! Unless there is help we shall lose him again.”
“What can I do?” groaned the Doctor. ”

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Francis Worcester Doughty, Mirrikh, or, A Woman from Mars… (1892)

“ I glanced at Maurice, but he made no objection and with the Doctor’s hand upon my arm I walked into the shadows. It was not until we were out of hearing that he spoke.
“I want you to prepare yourself for the worst,” he said.
“What do you mean?”
“I mean that Maurice can’t live. It is useless for me to kick against the pricks any longer. I own that all this is wonderful, most mysterious; but there is something seriously wrong with our friend, physically. Did you ever hear of a man having a double pulse, George Wylde?” ”

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Francis Worcester Doughty, Mirrikh, or, A Woman from Mars… (1892)

“ He listened, making no comment until I had uttered the last word.
“Then our situation is desperate?”
“Most desperate.”
“Even if we escape from the cave there is no help for us?”
“None, it would seem.”
“Yet Mirrikh promised,” he murmured, “and I shall trust him. Have no fear, George. We shall escape from this peril. We shall see New York again.”
“God grant it! But let me say a word in behalf of Walla, Maurice. Though humble enough and of another race than ours, the poor girl loves you. Be kind to her, Maurice. If you could have seen the devotion with which she watched over you ”

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Francis Worcester Doughty, Mirrikh, or, A Woman from Mars… (1892)

“ Strange words in that other voice followed.
“But what am I to do?”
Again the answer. Let me give something of this most peculiar conversation. The words spoken in the unknown tongue I must represent by dashes. I can do nothing else.
“I can never live so. I feel a sense of suffocation as though I was going to burst.”
“—— —— —— ——”
“Will time make it easier?”
“—— —— —— ——”
“No; I cannot rise. The weight holds me down.” ”

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Francis Worcester Doughty, Mirrikh, or, A Woman from Mars… (1892)

“ The first thing I knew I was speaking with George and heard him speak to me.”
“But tell me, Maurice,” I said; “has the question of distance anything at all to do with it?”
“Nothing whatever. It is simply a question of spiritual influx. If you desire to speak with a person at a distance, you must have a medium or operator at each end of the line, and either know the person yourself or find some one who does know him. If I am en rapport with you, it would be just as easy for a professional human telegrapher to assist me to address you at a distance of ten million miles as ten ”

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Francis Worcester Doughty, Mirrikh, or, A Woman from Mars… (1892)

“ If he survives it will be a miracle. His whole internal organism seems to be deranged.”
“Suppose we call Padma in consultation?” I suggested. “He must be over his anger by this time. I’m sure he will not refuse.”
To this the Doctor agreed, and as he had been the offending party, it was decided that I should be the one to go and fetch the old lama, and I accordingly started down the cave in the darkness, expecting to see the light which the lamas always kept burning as soon as I rounded a certain angle, for between our quarters and those of the lamas the cave took a sharp turn. ”

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Francis Worcester Doughty, Mirrikh, or, A Woman from Mars… (1892)

“ Not supposing—being in Mars at the time. Such things are common enough there. Mental telegraphy is there universally practiced and its operators as well recognized as an ordinary telegraph operator here. I desired to speak with George, and Mirrikh took me to one of those persons, that is all. ”

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