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bed (I had never told her it was double) and seemed dazed. "(4) An old-fashioned pin-cushion, an unusual object in a man's room. "(5) A black Japanese box covered with red raised figures. "(6) A leather-covered desk lined with gilt, sunk plate on top for handle to fall back into, standing on the chest of drawers. She described how she was running her fingers along a projecting ridge on the front of this desk. " 'You're wrong in just one thing,' I said later. 'What you took for a ridge was a gilt line on the leather. There's no projecting ridge anywhere " 'There is,' said Elsie positively, 'I tell you I felt it.' " 'But, my dear girl,' I protested, 'don’t you think I know my own desk?' " 'I don't care,' she replied. 'When you go home look at it, and you will find a gilt ridge on the front side.' "I took her advice. The desk was placed to front the wall, and the hinges (which I had quite forgotten) made a continuous projecting gilt ridge on the front side. Owing to its position, she had naturally mistaken the back of the desk for the front. "I am positive that Elsie, in the flesh, had never seen my room; for, as she never visited my home, she could never have had a peep without my knowledge, nor could she have obtained a description from any common friend." The adventure had an interesting sequel. "In this same summer of 1905," recounts Mr. Fox, "all unwittingly, I gave Elsie quite a nasty fright. She woke on a bright morning to find me standing, fully dressed but hatless, by her bed. I looked so solid and real that she never doubted I was there in the flesh. She slept with her window wide open,