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and no reader need fear an underhand effort to rob him of the consolations to be derived from the oblivion of the tomb, or even from the uncertainty as to his extended tenancy of it which the burial service of our Church seems to encourage. CHAPTER II THE SOMATIC DOUBLE IT would, perhaps, be wise to deal first with cases which are most accurately defined as "Doubles", since either part is able to function as, or be mistaken for, the whole. The best known and most completely documented instance is that of Mile Emile Sagee, whose sad story was published in 1883. There existed in Livonia, in 1845 and for many years after, four or five miles from the small town of Volmar, a school for young girls of noble birth, called the "Pensionnat de Neuwelcke". The head of this establishment was, at the date in question, a certain M. Buch. The number of pupils, almost all members of the Livonian nobility, was at that time forty-two. Among them was the second daughter of Baron Güldenstubbe, a girl thirteen years old. One of the mistresses was a French woman, Mile Emile Sagee, thirty-two years of age, born at Dijon, but belonging to a Northern type; a blonde with a pink and white complexion, bright blue eyes, and chestnut hair. She was somewhat over middle height, amiable and cheerful, but of a shy and nervous temperament. Her health was good, and in the year and a half she spent at Neuwelcke had had but one or two slight