Striding_Place

<<set $sound = "yes">>\s\n<<set $currentLoops = []>>\s\n<<display "Audio Tracks">>\n<<display "Style Changer">><<hiddenBar>>\s\n<<display "Style Changer">><<night>>\s\n<center><div class="fullwidth">[img[cover_art_striding_place_atherton.png][P01]]</div></center>\n<div style="font-size:80%"><center>\s\n                                  Story   Gertrude Atherton\n              Interiors   Tory Hoke\nInteractivity   sub-Q\n                      Cover Art   Elena Distefano\n</center>\nThis story provides the best experience\non a desktop computer with headphones.</div>\n<center>[[Begin|P01]]</center>

<<display "Common Elements">>\s\n<img src="images/P33.png" style="width:100%;"/>\n<p class="ind">[[There was no face.|P34]]</p>

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<<display "Common Elements">>\s\n<img src="images/P21.png" style="width:100%;"/>\n<p class="ind">The hand was in the same place, still gesticulating as wildly; the body was undoubtedly caught in the rocks below, perhaps already half-way along one of those hideous shelves. Weigall let himself down upon a lower rock, braced his shoulder against the mass beside him, then, leaning out over the water, thrust the branch into the hand. The fingers clutched it convulsively. Weigall tugged powerfully, his own feet dragged perilously near the edge. For a moment he produced no impression, then [[an arm shot above the waters|P22]].</p>

<<display "Common Elements">>\s\n<<display "Style Changer">><<night>>\s\n<<if $sound eq "yes">>\s\n<<fadeoutsound $funeral>>\s\n<<set $currentLoops.splice($currentLoops.indexOf($funeral),1)>>\s\n<<fadeinsound $night_walk 0.20 5000>>\s\n<<set $currentLoops.push($night_walk)>>\s\n<<endif>>\s\n<img src="images/P07.png" style="width:100%;"/>\n<p class="ind">“I cherish the theory,” Gifford had said, “that the soul sometimes lingers in the body after death. During madness, of course, it is an impotent prisoner, albeit a conscious one. Fancy its agony, and its horror! What more natural than that, when the life-spark goes out, the tortured soul should take possession of the vacant skull and triumph once more for a few hours while old friends look their last? It has had time to repent while compelled to crouch and behold the result of its work, and it has shrived itself into a state of comparative purity. If I had my way, I should stay inside my bones until the coffin had gone into its niche, that I might obviate for my poor old comrade the tragic impersonality of death. And I should like to see justice done to it, as it were—to see it lowered among its ancestors with the ceremony and solemnity that are its due. I am afraid that if I dissevered myself too quickly, I should yield to curiosity and hasten to investigate the mysteries of space.”</p>\s\n<p class="ind">“You believe in the soul as an independent entity, then—that it and the vital principle are not [[one and the same|P11]]?”</p>

<<display "Common Elements">>\s\n<img src="images/P08.png" style="width:100%;"/>\n<p class="ind">“Absolutely. The body and soul are twins, life comrades—sometimes friends, sometimes enemies, but always loyal in the last instance. Some day, when I am tired of the world, I shall go to India and become a mahatma, solely for the pleasure of receiving proof during life of this [[independent relationship|P12]].”</p>

<<display "Common Elements">>\s\n<img src="images/P09.png" style="width:100%;"/>\n<p class="ind">“Suppose you were not sealed up properly, and returned after one of your astral flights to find your earthly part unfit for habitation? It is an experiment I don’t think I should [[care to try|P13]], unless even juggling with soul and flesh had palled.”</p>

<<display "Common Elements">>\s\n<img src="images/P10.png" style="width:100%;"/>\n<p class="ind">“That would not be an uninteresting predicament. I should rather enjoy [[experimenting with broken machinery|P14]].”</p>

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<<display "Common Elements">>\s\n<<display "Style Changer">><<night>>\s\n<img src="images/P17.png" style="width:100%;"/>\n<p class="ind">The high wild roar of water smote suddenly upon Weigall’s ear and checked his memories. He [[left the wood...|P16]]</p>

<<display "Common Elements">>\s\n<img src="images/P13.png" style="width:100%;"/>\n<p class="ind">...and walked out on the huge slippery stones which nearly close the River Wharfe at this point, and watched the waters boil down into the narrow pass with their furious untiring energy. The black quiet of the woods rose high on either side. The stars seemed colder and whiter just above. On either hand the perspective of the river might have run into a rayless cavern. There was no lonelier spot in England, nor one which had the right to claim so many ghosts, if ghosts there were.</p>\s\n<p class="ind">Weigall was not a coward, but he recalled uncomfortably the tales of those that had been done to death in the Strid.</p>\s\n<blockquote><i>This striding place is called the ‘Strid,’\nA name which it took of yore;\nA thousand years hath it borne the name,\nAnd it shall a thousand more.</i></blockquote>\s\n<p class="ind">Wordsworth’s Boy of Egremond had been disposed of by the practical Whitaker; but countless others, more venturesome than wise, had gone down into that narrow boiling course, never to appear in the still pool a few yards beyond. Below the great rocks which form the walls of the Strid was believed to be a natural vault, on to whose shelves the dead were drawn. The spot had an ugly fascination. Weigall stood, visioning skeletons, uncoffined and green, the home of the eyeless things which had devoured all that had covered and filled that rattling symbol of man’s mortality; then fell to wondering if any one had attempted to leap the Strid of late. It was covered with slime; he had never seen it look [[so treacherous|P17]].</p>

<<display "Common Elements">>\s\n<img src="images/P18.png" style="width:100%;"/>\n<p class="ind">He shuddered and turned away, impelled, despite his manhood, to flee the spot. As he did so, something tossing in the foam below the fall—something as white, yet independent of it—caught his eye and arrested his step. Then he saw that it was describing a contrary motion to the rushing water—an upward backward motion. Weigall stood rigid, breathless; he fancied he heard the [[crackling of his hair|P18]].</p>

<<display "Common Elements">>\s\n<img src="images/P14.png" style="width:100%;"/>\n<p class="ind">Was that a hand? It thrust itself still higher above the boiling foam, turned sidewise, and [[four frantic fingers|P19]] were distinctly visible against the black rock beyond.</p>

The Striding Place

<<display "Common Elements">>\s\n<<if $sound eq "yes">>\s\n<<fadeoutsound $epic_theme>>\s\n<<set $currentLoops.splice($currentLoops.indexOf($epic_theme),1)>>\s\n<<fadeinsound $river_and_ambience 0.20 5000>>\s\n<<set $currentLoops.push($river_and_ambience)>>\s\n<<endif>>\s\n<img src="images/P30.png" style="width:100%;"/>\n<p class="ind">Weigall reached the pool. A man in his evening clothes floated on it, his face turned towards a projecting rock over which his arm had fallen, upholding the body. The hand that had held the branch hung limply over the rock, its white reflection visible in the [[black water|P31]].</p>

<<display "Common Elements">>\s\n<img src="images/P31.png" style="width:100%;"/>\n<p class="ind">Weigall plunged into the shallow pool, lifted Gifford in his arms and [[returned to the bank|P32]].</p>

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<<if $sound eq "yes">>\s\n<<fadeoutsound $river_water>>\s\n<<set $currentLoops.splice($currentLoops.indexOf($river_water),1)>>\s\n<<fadeinsound $epic_theme 0.20 5000>>\s\n<<set $currentLoops.push($epic_theme)>>\s\n<<endif>>\s\n<img src="images/P20.png" style="width:100%;"/>\n<p class="ind">Weigall dashed to the nearest tree, dragged and twisted off a branch with his strong arms, and returned as swiftly to [[the Strid|P21]].</p>

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<p class="ind">The blood sprang to Weigall’s head; he was choked with the impression that the Strid had him in her roaring hold, and he saw nothing. Then the mist cleared. The hand and arm were nearer, although the rest of the body was still concealed by the foam. Weigall peered out with distended eyes. The meagre light revealed in the cuffs links of a peculiar device. The fingers clutching the branch were as familiar.</p>\s\n<p class="ind">Weigall forgot the slippery stones, the terrible death if he stepped too far. He pulled with passionate will and muscle. Memories flung themselves into the hot light of his brain, trooping rapidly upon each other’s heels, as in the thought of the drowning. Most of the pleasures of his life, good and bad, were identified in some way with this friend. Scenes of college days, of travel, where they had deliberately sought adventure and stood between one another and death upon more occasions than one, of hours of delightful companionship among the treasures of art, and others in the pursuit of pleasure, flashed like the changing particles of a kaleidoscope. Weigall had loved several women; but he would have flouted in these moments the thought that he had ever loved any woman as he loved Wyatt Gifford. There were so many charming women in the world, and in the thirty-two years of his life he had never known another man to whom he had cared to give his intimate friendship.</p>\s\n<p class="ind">He threw himself on his face. His wrists were cracking, the skin was torn from his hands. The fingers still gripped the stick. There was life in them yet.</p>\s\n<p class="ind">Suddenly something gave way. The hand swung about, tearing the branch from Weigall’s grasp. The body had been liberated and flung outward, though still submerged by the foam and spray.</p>\s\n<p class="ind">Weigall scrambled to his feet and sprang along the rocks, knowing that the danger from suction was over and that Gifford must be carried straight to the quiet pool. Gifford was a fish in the water and could live under it longer than most men. If he survived this, it would not be the first time that his [[pluck and science had saved him from drowning|P30]].</p>

<<display "Common Elements">>\s\n<img src="images/P32.png" style="width:100%;"/>\n<p class="ind">He laid the body down and threw off his coat that he might be the freer to practise the methods of resuscitation. He was glad of the moment’s respite. The valiant life in the man might have been exhausted in that last struggle. He had not dared to look at his face, to put his ear to the heart. The hesitation lasted but a moment. There was no time to lose.</p>\s\n<p class="ind">He turned to his prostrate friend. As he did so, something strange and disagreeable smote his senses. For a half-moment he did not appreciate its nature. Then his teeth clacked together, his feet, his outstretched arms pointed towards the woods. But he sprang to the side of the man and bent down and peered into [[his face|P33]].</p>

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<<display "Common Elements">>\s\n<img src="images/P19.gif" style="width:100%;"/>\n<p class="ind">Weigall’s superstitious terror left him. A man was there, struggling to free himself from the suction beneath the Strid, swept down, doubtless, but a moment before his arrival, perhaps as he stood with his back to the current.</p>\s\n<p class="ind">He stepped as close to the edge as he dared. The hand doubled as if in imprecation, shaking savagely in the face of that force which leaves its creatures to immutable law; then spread wide again, clutching, expanding, crying for help [[as audibly as the human voice|P20]].</p>

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<<display "Common Elements">>\s\n<img src="images/P02.png" style="width:100%;"/>\n<p class="ind">It had been a bad day. A heavy rain had made the moor so spongy that it fairly sprang beneath the feet. Whether or not the grouse had haunts of their own, wherein they were immune from rheumatism, the bag had been small. The women, too, were an unusually dull lot, with the exception of a new-minded débutante who bothered Weigall at dinner by demanding the verbal restoration of the vague paintings on the vaulted roof [[above them|P03]].</p>\s

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<<display "Common Elements">>\s\n<img src="images/P17.png" style="width:100%;"/>\n<p class="ind">It was very dark in the depths where Weigall trod. He smiled as he recalled a remark of Gifford’s: “An English wood is like a good many other things in life—very promising at a distance, but a hollow mockery when you get within. You see daylight on both sides, and the sun freckles the very bracken. Our woods need the night to make them seem what they ought to be—what they once were, before our ancestors’ descendants demanded so much more money, in these so much more various days.”</p>\s\n<p class="ind">Weigall strolled along, smoking, and thinking of his friend, his pranks—many of which had done more credit to his imagination than this—and recalling conversations that had lasted the night through. Just before the end of the London season they had walked the streets one hot night after a party, discussing the various theories of [[the soul’s destiny|P08]].</p>

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<<display "Common Elements">>\s\n<img src="images/P04.png" style="width:100%;"/>\n<p class="ind">Weigall did not believe for a moment that Wyatt Gifford was dead, and although it was impossible not to be affected by the general uneasiness, he was disposed to be more angry than frightened. At Cambridge Gifford had been an incorrigible practical joker, and by no means had outgrown the habit; it would be like him to cut across the country in his evening clothes, board a cattle-train, and amuse himself touching up [[the picture of the sensation|P06]] in West Riding.</p>

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<<display "Common Elements">>\s\n<img src="images/P06.png" style="width:100%;"/>\n<p class="ind">Weigall and Gifford had had no time to comment there, and the afternoon and evening were full; but, coming forth from the house of festivity together, they had reverted almost at once to [[the topic|P10]].</p>

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