The Water Ghost and Others

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You do not exercise it enough. How have you developed your muscles? By constant exercise. The imagination needs to be kept in play quite as much as the muscles, if we do not wish it to become flabby as the muscles become when neglected. That your imagination is a strong one is shown by my presence before you to-night. In reality, Phil, I am lying out there in Greenwood, cold in my grave. Your imagination places me here, and as applied to my books, the play of Hamlet by Thomas Bragdon, and my poems, they will also demonstrate to you the strength of your fancy if you will show them, say, to your janitor, to-morrow morning. Try it, Phil, and see; but this is only a part, my boy, of what I have come here to say to you. I am here, in the main, to show you that throughout all eternity happiness may be ours if we but take advantage of our fancy. Do you take delight in my society? Imagine me present, Phil, and I will be present. There need be no death for us, there need be no separation throughout all the years to come, if you but exercise your fancy in life, and when life on this earth ends, then shall we be reunited according to nature's laws. Good-night, Phil. It is late; and while I could sit here and talk forever without weariness, you, who have yet to put off your mortal limitations, will be worn out if I remain longer.\""},{"id":"content8:66","kind":"paragraph","text":"We shook hands affectionately, and Bragdon vanished as unceremoniously as he had appeared. For an hour after his departure I sat reflecting over the strange events of the evening, and finally, worn out in body and mind, dropped off into sleep. When I awakened it was late in the forenoon, and I was surprised when I recalled all that I had gone through to feel a sense of exhilaration. I was certainly thoroughly rested, and cares which had weighed rather heavily on me in the past now seemed light and inconsiderable. My apartments never looked so attractive, and on my table, to my utter surprise and delight, I saw several objects of art, notably a Bary— bronze, that it had been one of my most cherished hopes to possess. Where they came from I singularly enough did not care to discover; suffice it to say that they have remained there ever since, nor have I been at all curious to know to whose generosity I owe them, though when that afternoon I followed Bragdon's advice, and showed his book of poems and the volume of Hamlet to the janitor, a vague notion as to how matters really stood entered my mind. The janitor cast his eye over the leather-covered book of poems when I asked what he thought of it."},{"id":"content8:67","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Nothin' much,\" he said. \"You goin' to keep a diary?\""},{"id":"content8:68","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"What do you mean?\" I asked."},{"id":"content8:69","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Why, when I sees people with handsome blank books like that I allus supposes that's their object.\""},{"id":"content8:70","kind":"paragraph","text":"Blank-book indeed! And yet, perhaps, he was not wrong. I did not question it, but handed him the Bragdon Hamlet."},{"id":"content8:71","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Read that page aloud to me,\" I said, indicating the title-page and turning my back upon him, almost dreading to hear him speak."},{"id":"content8:72","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Certainly, if you wish it; but aren't you feeling well this morning, Mr. Marsden?\""},{"id":"content8:73","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Very,\" I replied, shortly. \"Go on and read.\""},{"id":"content8:74","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Hamlet, Prince of Denmark,\" he read, in a halting sort of fashion."},{"id":"content8:75","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Yes, yes; and what else?\" I cried, impatiently."},{"id":"content8:76","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"A Tragedy by William Shak—\""},{"id":"content8:77","kind":"paragraph","text":"That was enough for me. I understood Tom, and at last I understood myself. I grasped the book from the janitor's hands, rather roughly, I fear, and bade him begone."},{"id":"content8:78","kind":"paragraph","text":"The happiest period of my life has elapsed since then. I understand that some of my friends profess to believe me queer; but I do not care. I am content."},{"id":"content8:79","kind":"paragraph","text":"The world is practically mine, and Bragdon and I are always together."},{"id":"content8:80","kind":"heading","text":"THE END"}],"toc":[{"id":"content0:0:1","label":"John Kendrick Bangs The Water Ghost and Others","page":1,"pageUrl":"/books/2vmMDjkA#reader-content"},{"id":"content0:1:1","label":"THE WATER GHOST OF HARROWBY HALL","page":1,"pageUrl":"/books/2vmMDjkA#reader-content"},{"id":"content1:0:4","label":"THE SPECTRE COOK OF BANGLETOP","page":4,"pageUrl":"/books/2vmMDjkA?page=4#reader-content"},{"id":"content1:1:4","label":"I","page":4,"pageUrl":"/books/2vmMDjkA?page=4#reader-content"},{"id":"content2:0:6","label":"II","page":6,"pageUrl":"/books/2vmMDjkA?page=6#reader-content"},{"id":"content3:0:10","label":"III","page":10,"pageUrl":"/books/2vmMDjkA?page=10#reader-content"},{"id":"content4:0:12","label":"IV","page":12,"pageUrl":"/books/2vmMDjkA?page=12#reader-content"},{"id":"content4:35:13","label":"THE SPECK ON THE LENS","page":13,"pageUrl":"/books/2vmMDjkA?page=13#reader-content"},{"id":"content5:0:15","label":"A MIDNIGHT VISITOR","page":15,"pageUrl":"/books/2vmMDjkA?page=15#reader-content"},{"id":"content6:0:19","label":"A QUICKSILVER CASSANDRA","page":19,"pageUrl":"/books/2vmMDjkA?page=19#reader-content"},{"id":"content6:17:20","label":"THE GHOST CLUB","page":20,"pageUrl":"/books/2vmMDjkA?page=20#reader-content"},{"id":"content7:0:25","label":"A PSYCHICAL PRANK","page":25,"pageUrl":"/books/2vmMDjkA?page=25#reader-content"},{"id":"content7:1:25","label":"I","page":25,"pageUrl":"/books/2vmMDjkA?page=25#reader-content"},{"id":"content7:21:26","label":"II","page":26,"pageUrl":"/books/2vmMDjkA?page=26#reader-content"},{"id":"content8:0:27","label":"THE LITERARY REMAINS OF THOMAS BRAGDON","page":27,"pageUrl":"/books/2vmMDjkA?page=27#reader-content"},{"id":"content8:16:28","label":"GIUSEPPE ZOCCO","page":28,"pageUrl":"/books/2vmMDjkA?page=28#reader-content"},{"id":"content8:17:28","label":"Gondolas at all Hours","page":28,"pageUrl":"/books/2vmMDjkA?page=28#reader-content"},{"id":"content8:18:28","label":"Cor. 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