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accepted, but did not use, and she put nothing in the collecting box when it was presented. She remained seated until the singing of the last hymn, when she stood up holding her hymn-book; at the last verse she laid the book down, walked quickly down the aisle, opened the door herself and passed out. Stead, who had watched her from his seat in the gallery, was surprised, knowing she was ill, and noticed that she looked strangely haggard and ghastly. He feared she was about to collapse, or have one of the fits to which she was liable, and after the service hurried out to help her, but found that she had disappeared. She was a stranger to the church, but had attended and occupied exactly the same seat on the two previous Sundays. On the preceding Sunday (October 6th) she had had a most unaccountable desire to go again to church, but had resisted it as she was ill, and, having told Stead about it, promised not to attempt the outing until in better health, and less likely to fall down in a fit. On the Monday after the appearance of the Double, Stead found that Mrs. A., on the day before, had suffered so grievously that she had sent for the doctor, who at 6 p.m. gave her some soothing medicine, which enabled her to sleep from 7 to 8.30 p.m. She had, she said, not thought of the church nor wished to be there, and had no consciousness of having attended the service. Realizing the importance of the case, Stead at once obtained written statements from those who had been with her at home, and those who had recognized her Double in the church, as well as from the doctor who had attended her. A photograph, taken when she had recovered her health, gave a very clear rendering of her Double, proof that a certain looseness in attachment of the Somatic Double cannot always