No. 69. From Mr. J. T. Clarke
September 20, 1889.
Mr. Clarke fixes his mind steadily upon a certain house, and visualises members of family; of this no recognition by medium, who begins :
(1) "Why! I know you! I have seen your influence somewhere before! What are you doing over here?"
[Mr. Clarke explains that some intimate friends had had sittings with Mrs. Piper, in the course of which his name and that of his mother had been mentioned]
(2) "Oh! There is lots of trouble over you, black clouds all over you; but I see light beyond; you will come out all right. It is financial trouble that I mean; you will wade through it all right in the end."
[Correct. My visit to America was determined by a financial failure, the loss from which I was then endeavouring to minimise.]
"How long hence?"
(3) "Four months or four months and a half. There are parties that have not dealt honourably with you."
[Mr. Clarke adds that he had at the time a lurking distrust—afterwards proved to be unfounded—of the "parties" referred to.]
(4) "I see your lady in the spirit, your mother—have seen her before."
[There followed a clear account of my own conception of my mother, recently deceased, whose constant presence in my mind readily accounts for the frequent mentions of her.]
(5) "You 've also got a lady in the body, your wife. You won't find her very well.”
[Prophecy wrong. My wife never better in health.]
(6) "Do you know a. man named Williams—no, wait! Williamson? [Reply, "No."] Tall, rather dark, first name Henery [Sic.]. He will come into your surroundings soon—he will have something to do with your papers and with law. He