LEONARD BILSITER was one of those people who have failed to find
this world attractive or interesting, and who have sought
compensation in an "unseen world" of their own experience or
imagination - or invention. Children do that sort of thing
successfully, but children are content to convince themselves, and
do not vulgarise their beliefs by trying to convince other people.
Leonard Bilsiter's beliefs were for "the few," that is to say,
anyone who would listen to him. His dabblings in the unseen might
not have carried him beyond the customary platitudes of the
drawing-room visionary if accident had not reinforced his
stock-in-trade of mystical lore. In company with a friend, who was
interested in a Ural mining concern, he had made a trip across
Eastern Europe at a moment when the great Russian railway strike
was developing from a threat to a reality; its outbreak caught him
on the return journey, somewhere on the further side of Perm, and
it was while waiting for a couple of days at a wayside station in a
state of suspended locomotion that he made the acquaintance of a
dealer in harness and metalware, who profitably whiled away the
tedium of the long halt by initiating his English travelling
companion in a fragmentary system of folk-lore that he had picked
up from Trans-Baikal traders and natives.
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