In this case thought transference may be appealed to.  The lady was thinking of her nephew in connection with India.  It is not maintained, of course, that the picture was of a prophetic character.

The following examples have some curious and unusual features.  On Wednesday, February 2, 1897, Miss Angus was looking in the crystal, to amuse six or seven people whose acquaintance she had that day made.  A gentleman, Mr. Bissett, asked her ‘what letter was in his pocket,’ She then saw, under a bright sky, and, as it were, a long way off, a large building, in and out of which many men were coming and going.  Her impression was that the scene must be abroad.  In the little company present, it should be added, was a lady, Mrs. Cockburn, who had considerable reason to think of her young married daughter, then at a place about fifty miles away.  After Miss Angus had described the large building and crowds of men, some one asked, ‘Is it an exchange?’ ’It might be,’ she said.  ’Now comes a man in a great hurry.  He has a broad brow, and short, curly hair;[12] hat pressed low down on his eyes.  The face is very serious; but he has a delightful smile.’  Mr. and Mrs. Bissett now both recognised their friend and stockbroker, whose letter was in Mr. Bissett’s pocket.

The vision, which interested Miss Angus, passed away, and was interrupted by that of a hospital nurse, and of a lady in a peignoir, lying on a sofa, with bare feet.[13] Miss Angus mentioned this vision as a bore, she being more interested in the stockbroker, who seems to have inherited what was once in the possession of another stockbroker—­’the smile of Charles Lamb.’  Mrs. Cockburn, for whom no pictures appeared, was rather vexed, and privately expressed with freedom a very sceptical opinion about the whole affair.  But, on Saturday, February 5, 1897, Miss Angus was again with Mr. and Mrs. Bissett.  When Mrs. Bissett announced that she had ‘thought of something,’ Miss Angus saw a walk in a wood or garden, beside a river, under a brilliant blue sky.  Here was a lady, very well dressed, twirling a white parasol on her shoulder as she walked, in a curious ‘stumpy’ way, beside a gentleman in light clothes, such as are worn in India.  He was broad-shouldered, had a short neck and a straight nose, and seemed to listen, laughing, but indifferent, to his obviously vivacious companion.  The lady had a ‘drawn’ face, indicative of ill health.  Then followed a scene in which the man, without the lady, was looking on at a number of Orientals busy in the felling of trees.  Mrs. Bissett recognised, in the lady, her sister, Mrs. Clifton, in India—­above all, when Miss Angus gave a realistic imitation of Mrs. Clifton’s walk, the peculiarity of which was caused by an illness some years ago.  Mrs. and Mr. Bissett also recognised their brother-in-law in the gentleman seen in both pictures.  On being shown a portrait of Mrs. Clifton as a girl, Miss Angus said it was ‘like, but too pretty.’  A photograph done recently, however, showed her ‘the drawn face’ of the crystal picture.[14]