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was to be held, until she was invited — barely in time 

 to get there; she did not know the time or place until 

 brought there; she was introduced to nobody; nobody 

 present save myself had ever seen her before. 



By giving his own and her initials, a communicator 

 (it was a routine spiritoid seance) established that he 

 was seeking her. She asked, "Is it my father?" and 

 he corrected her; it was her father-in-law. The sitter 

 made no other remark to which objection could con- 

 ceivably be urged. The communicator gave details of 

 his personal appearance, including a little goatee that 

 his friends laughed at. He told the sitter that on the 

 preceding evening she had been at home, in her apart- 

 ment, alone. Here are three independent statements; 

 all are correct; for the first and last, as regards this 

 sitter, a high improbability would exist. She had been 

 washing some clothes in the bathroom basin (natural 

 enough, once she Is located at home and by herself; 

 but why not the kitchenette?) ; also some funny little 

 white things that he hadn't been able to identify (ac- 

 tually powder-puffs, lending extreme improbability). 

 And as he withdrew, he said unmistakably, "Give my 

 love to Lois," correcting a sitter who thought he had 

 said Louis. In fact his only grandchild was of this 

 name, Lois. 



A very clean-cut, straightforward, simple, thor- 

 oughly satisfactory example of supernormal cognition, 

 this. It is particularly good in that assuredly not all 

 the data could have been got accidentally or obliquely 

 from a single source; the sitter's actions of last night 

 and the facts about the communicator are in distinct 

 categories here. But whatever evidence the incident 



