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intensely brilliant bluish-white light. In the middle was Elsie, hair loose, and in her nightdress. She seemed perfectly solid as she stood by a chest of drawers near the right side of my bed. Thus she remained, regarding me with calm but sorrowful eyes, and running her fingers along the top and front of a desk which stood on the drawers. She did not speak. "For what seemed to be some seconds I could not move nor utter a word. Again I felt the strange paralysis which I have previously noted. Wonder and admiration filled me, but I was not afraid of her. At last I broke the spell. Rising on one elbow I called her name, and she vanished as suddenly as she had come. It certainly seemed I was awake now. " 'I must note the time,' I thought, but an irresistible drowsiness overwhelmed me. I fell back and slept dreamlessly till morning. "The following evening we met and I found Elsie very excited and triumphant. " 'I did come to you!' she greeted me. 'I really did. I went to sleep, willing that I would, and all at once I was there. This morning, I knew just how everything was in your room, but I've been forgetting all day—it's been slipping away.' "Well, despite her impatience, I would not say a word about what I had seen until she had told me all she could remember. So, although this experience can never be absolutely convincing to her or to anyone else, it is at least to me. "She described in detail the following: "(1) Relative positions of door, window, fireplace, washstand, chest of drawers, and dressing-table. "(2) That the window had a number of small panes instead of the more usual large ones. That I was lying, eyes open, on the left side of a double