y first visit I saw a copy of
the S.P.R. Proceedings lying on the table.

I found him interested, but unable to get beyond the 'subliminal
consciousness' theory.

A few days later I asked Colonel Bates if he had ever met a Colonel
Henry Arthur Chomley in India. He thought for a moment, then said:

'Chomley? Why, of course I knew a Chomley, but I don't know his
Christian name. He was Brigade Major at Meean Meer, and I took over the
brigade from him, and bought his horses, etc. Where did _you_ know him?'

I then told him of the spirit who had given me the name of Henry Arthur
Chomley, who said he had known him in India, and had over and over again
begged to be remembered to him.

The day following this conversation Colonel Bates sent me up his Army
List, open, and marked at the name of Colonel _Walter_ Chomley, and a
note explaining that it was not Henry Arthur, but _Walter Chomley_ whom
he had known at Meean Meer.

I then asked 'Henry Arthur' if his name was Walter or Henry Arthur.

He said: '_Henry Arthur. Surely I ought to know my own name!_'

Colonel Bates told the story to you the next time you (_i.e._ E. K.
Bates) came to see him, and I remember we discussed it together when we
met again.

Shortly afterwards you wrote to tell me that you had looked up a
_Debrett_ for 1895, and had there found _Colonel Henry Arthur Chomley, a
brother of Sir Frederic Chomley, of the Rifle Brigade, etc._, so that
Henry Arthur Chomley was evidently alive in that year, and _had_ been in
the Rifle Brigade.

I was much pleased to get this corroborative evidence, though the
mistake in initials must have been Colonel Bates' error, and apologised
to Colonel Henry Arthur Chomley in the Unseen.

A few weeks later, however, you wrote again, and told me that you had
been staying with a friend, who drove you over to call upon Colonel and
Mrs Henry Arthur Chomley, that he was a brother of Sir Frederic Chomley,
and was certainly _alive_, although not _at home_, at the time of your
visit!

This information startled me, and my guide, at my request, went to look
up the _soi-disant_ Colonel to find out what it all meant.

The latter then confessed to having taken a friend's name, said a sudden
impulse came over him when I first asked his name, and having told one
lie, he felt bound to go on deceiving me, but that he had known both
Colonel Bates and Colonel Henry Arthur Chomley in India, and that his
own real name was Anstruther!"

Th