hiting.

Then I asked: "In what country did you pass away--Europe or America, or
elsewhere?"

"_America_" was spelt out at once.

"In what city?"

"_Boston._"

"Was it in a private house, a hospital, a hotel, or _where_ did you
die?"

"In a hospital" was again spelt out.

"How long ago?"

"_Five years_" was the answer.

I may note here that Miss Whiting had _not_ mentioned the number of
years, only having said "A few years ago" when speaking of the event.
_Five years_ proved to be true. My last question was:

"What was your age when you passed over?"

"_Twenty-three_" was the answer.

This last, I felt sure, must be wrong. Miss Whiting had not mentioned
any age, but it seemed to me unlikely that so young a woman should have
been travelling round the country with two temperance lecturers.

When these answers were being given, Mrs Gray's son, the medium, asked
if he might put one hand on my wrist to come into magnetic conditions
with me.

I agreed to this, but said I should turn my eyes away from the alphabet,
lest my muscles should give him any unconscious indications.

When I sent these answers to Mr Stead on returning to England, I wrote
down Julia O. (ignoring the repetition of the O); and in connection with
the other answers, told him, of course, of my previous conversation
with Miss Whiting, which reduced the whole episode to one of possible
Thought Transference.

In answering me he said: "I am glad Julia was able to give her name,
even if it were Thought Transference; but, as a matter of fact, it is
not her whole name which you received--she always signed her letters to
me '_Julia O. O...._'" This makes rather a good bit of evidence, seeing
that the second O _had_ been given, but discarded by Mrs Gray and myself
as a repetition of the first letter of the _surname!_

To resume my experiences with Mr Knapton Thompson.

In the evening of this writing incident Mrs Gray had another public
_seance_, at which I was again present, Mr Thompson sitting on one side
of me.

After some "materialisations," for other members of the circle had
appeared, Mrs Gray announced that Stead's "Julia" was present in the
cabinet, and wished to speak to me.

I went up at once, and the form came out and stood in very fair light
from the gas-burners. She seized my hands with every appearance of
delight and eagerness, and her grasp was strong and tense. It is my
peculiarity always to notice hands very accurately. The