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*' Another very significant fact is that Noomi, 

 when on the ground beside the nun, experienced 

 a curious, funny feehng, and saw herself still on 

 the ladder. Now it would be most interesting to 

 learn, and we ought to try and find out, whether 

 Noomi' s school friend, who was supposed to be 

 away at the time, really came to Noomi in bodily 

 form dressed as a nun and led her to the private 

 chapel where she saw the apparition of Arthur 

 Neumann. We ought also to try and find out 

 whether Mere Paul, who was in the chapel with 

 Noomi, and must have been near her when she 

 was working on the ladder, ever saw her get down 

 from the ladder and meet her school friend in 

 nun's dress, then leave the chapel with her, and 

 after a time return to the church and again get 

 up the ladder, for when she got down in bodily 

 form Mere Paul at once noticed that she looked 

 very pale and ill. Now I believe that Noomi's 

 body never left the ladder at all. Neumann's 

 spirit probably could not get en rapport directly 

 with hers, but was able in some way to cause the 

 spirit of her school friend to quit its bodily case 

 and communicate with the spirit of Noomi, and 

 bring it to the chapel, where he was able to appear 

 to, and to make a commimication to it. You 

 may not be able to understand this, but I beUeve 

 that it will be proved that Noomi's friend knows 

 nothing about having visited the church in nun's 

 dress. I believe that the figure in nun's dress 

 that called Noomi was as much a spirit as the 

 apparition of Neumann — ^the one was a spirit 

 of the living, the other a spirit of the dead. Both 

 would probably be invisible to Mere Paul, or to 



