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Entry #2 (end)

Bedloe still thinks that he is dreaming, but after various tests he discovered that he was awake. He did not feel that he was asleep at all. As he was descending into this place he suddenly felt that he needed to be here, and to par-take in whatever was happening. When he arrived at the heart of the city, there was massive commotion and fighting going on. He joined the weaker group and started fighting for a reason he did not know. Then he rushed into the middle of the battle, and overwhelmed by the other party, was struck on his "right-temple" and "killed". He felt dead for some time and actually looked over his corpse. But was soon motioned down the path which he came. When he came to the part of the trail where he saw the hyena he "experienced a violent shock" and regained the sense of being in his body. After Bedloe finished his story Dr.Templeton showed them a water color painting. the picture was dated 1780 and was of Templeton's dead friend, "Mr. Oldeb", who looked remarkably similar to Bedloe. After a week had gone by, Augustus "Bedlo" was pronounced dead in the newspaper. He had been suffering from a terrible fever, and when the Dr. Templeton appplied leeches to cure him he accidentally applied a "venomous vermicular sangsues", he died shortly after. But when the narrator asked the editor of the paper why he spelled Bedloe, "Bedlo" the editorjust said that it was a typo. The narrator noticed, however, that "Bedlo" spelled Oldeb backwards!