I wish that thou couldst have seen it, Susannah, for the miracle has given me a great uplifting in spirit, but I am come to bear witness to it, that thou, too, mayest rejoice in the marvel." There was a few moments' pause.

"What was it ?" she asked.
"Newell began to rise from the bed.

He did not sit up or move himself, but he was raised slowly into the air, still reclining as though upon his pillow.

The invisible hands of angels bore him upwards." Susannah knit her brows.

"Did you see the angels?
I don't understand." And then more vehemently she asked, "What was it that you did see ?" "Nay, friend, it was not vouchsafed to us to see the blessed spirits, but surely they must have lifted him, for he rose, soaring upwards, as thou hast seen the thistledown ascend gently, almost as high as the roof of the room.