ing, suspicious persons lurked, Miss
Freer was hypnotised, made to see an apparition, and left susceptible to
a further operation that night. Later on it says, "the dog ran up,
pointed, and ran straight for the two women." This was on the second
occasion of a grey woman appearing, and the third occasion of the black
nun being seen. He was found barking in the glen; no cause could be
found; a lurking stranger is a possible explanation. It may be noted,
that the pointing attitude in a dog of the smaller breeds means
reflection, and that something puzzled it, perhaps its mistress's
attitude; but its going on barking would indicate the steady retreat of
some one who frightened it.

At least three voices were heard--perhaps more. Phenomena were scarce;
the gang's powers were still limited, though the horror they inflicted
showed that they reached the bounds of some of the victims' strength.
Miss Freer not only heard sounds in the house, where she was less
exposed than in the glen, but saw apparitions on four occasions.

The visions that can be inflicted telepathically, _i.e._ hypnotically,
seem to be at first limited to two kinds--first, the vision of the person
himself: this hallucination has often been effected by honest
experimentalists; secondly, and this is rather matter of inference, a
rascal who has hypnotised a person may be unable to get rid of the image
of his victim, and transfers the ghost that haunts him to another
subject.

The portrait of a so-called Nathan Early, at the beginning of Osgood
Mason's book, has the eyebrows, eyes, and mouth of a much mesmerised man.
The mouth has not become stiffened into a laugh, as he was of a gentle
firm disposition, and the hypnotism probably was from a distance.

The possessed hypnotist transferred it to his victim, Mrs. Juliette
Burton.

The qualification, "at first," is important; visions are perhaps not
easily transferred to a new subject, but the question of what is good
policy for the rascals may have to be considered. This may limit
the experience of those who have been more seriously victimised than Miss
Freer and her garrison were.

The experiments reported in Mr. Podmore's excellent book, though
invaluable, are probably not exhaustive.

Colonel Meysey Thompson's Reminiscences relate a wonderful occurrence
connected with his father, but it is believed that more striking matters
occurred even than this. To return to the haunted house.

The cottage to the eas