Francis Worcester Doughty

“ These are ministering angels taking her spirit away,” I thought; when all at once something white seemed to flit across my vision, and to my utter amazement I beheld the woman whom I had seen standing by the side of Maurice on Mars, settling down over Walla’s earthly form.
“It is Merzilla! She is seeking a body!” flashed over me, and I remembered Maurice’s words.
For an instant she appeared to hover over Walla, her fingers moving like lightning. To me it seemed as though she were drawing from her own brain a silvery thread which she conveyed to the brain of the corpse. ”

“ It was just as vivid, just as real, and yet there was a difference. I gazed into her eyes, I stretched out my hands to grasp her, but clutched at the empty air.
“No, George; not now!” I heard her say. “All danger has passed, and many useful years lie before you. ”