I now give Miss Angus’s version of this case, as originally received from her (December 1897).  I had previously received an oral version, from a person present at the scrying.  It differed, in one respect, from what Miss Angus writes.  Her version is offered because it is made independently, without consultation, or attempt to reconcile recollections.

’At a recent experience of gazing, for the first time I was able to make another see what I saw in the crystal.  Miss Rose called one afternoon, and begged me to look in the ball for her.  I did so, and immediately exclaimed, “Oh! here is a bed, with a man in it looking very ill [I saw he was dead, but refrained from saying so], and there is a lady dressed in black sitting beside the bed.”  I did not recognise the man to be anyone I knew, so I told her to look.  In a very short time she called out, “Oh!  I see the bed too!  But, oh! take it away, the man is dead!” She got quite a shock, and said she would never look in it again.  Soon, however, curiosity prompted her to have one more look, and the scene at once came back again, and slowly, from a misty object at the side of the bed, the lady in black became quite distinct.  Then she described several people in the room, and said they were carrying something all draped in black.  When she saw this, she put the ball down and would not look at it again.  She called again on Sunday (this had been on Friday) with her cousin, and we teased her about being afraid of the crystal, so she said she would just look in it once more.  She took the ball, but immediately laid it down again, saying, “No, I won’t look, as the bed with the awful man in it is there again!”

’When they went home, they heard that the cousin’s father-in-law had died that afternoon,[11] but to show he had never been in our thoughts, although we all knew he had not been well, no one suggested him; his name was never mentioned in connection with the vision.’

‘Clairvoyance,’ of course, is not illustrated here, the corpse being unrecognised, and the coincidence, doubtless, accidental.

The next case is attested by a civilian, a slight acquaintance of Miss Angus’s, who now saw him for the second time only, but better known to her family.

’IV.—­On Thursday, March —? 1897, I was lunching with my friends the Anguses, and during luncheon the conversation turned upon crystal balls and the visions that, by some people, can be seen in them.  The subject arose owing to Miss Angus having just been presented with a crystal ball by Mr. Andrew Lang.  I asked her to let me see it, and then to try and see if she could conjure up a vision of any person of whom I might think....  I fixed my mind upon a friend, a young trooper in the [regiment named], as I thought his would be a striking and peculiar personality, owing to his uniform, and also because I felt sure that Miss Angus could not possibly know of his existence.  I fixed my mind