,
when what should I see but your own dear self; but, heavens! in what
a position. Now, I don't want to excite your curiosity too much, or
try your patience too long, so will come to the point at once. You
were falling up the front steps in the yard. You had on your black
skirt and velvet waist, your little straw bonnet, and in your hand
were some papers. When you fell, your hat went in one direction, and
the papers in another. You got up very quickly, put on your bonnet,
picked up the papers, and lost no time getting into the house. You
did not appear to be hurt, but looked somewhat mortified. It was all
so plain to me that I had ten to one notions to dress myself and
come over and see if it were true, but finally concluded that a
sober, industrious woman like yourself would not be stumbling around
at that rate, and thought I'd best not go on a wild goose chase.
Now, what do you think of such a vision as that? Is there any
possible truth in it? I feel almost ready to scream with laughter
whenever I think of it; you did look _too_ funny, spreading
yourself out in the front yard. "Great was the fall thereof."'

"This letter came to us in an envelope addressed: Mrs. E. A. C----, 217
Del. Ave., N.E., Washington, D.C., and with the postmarks, Washington,
D.C., Jan. 15, 7 a.m., 1889, and Washington, N.E.C.S., Jan. 15, 8 a.m.

"Now the point is that every detail in this telepathic vision was
correct. Mrs. C---- had actually (as she tells me in a letter dated
March 7th, 1889) fallen in this way, at this place, in the dress
described, at 2.41, on January 14th. The coincidence can hardly have
been due to chance. If we suppose that the vision preceded the accident,
we shall have an additional marvel, which, however, I do not think we
need here face. 'About 2,' in a letter of this kind, may quite
conceivably have meant 2.41."

The exceeding triviality of the incident often destroys the possibility
of belief in the ordinary superstition that it was a direct Divine
revelation. This may be plausible in cases of the _Strathmore_,
where the intelligence was communicated of the loss of an English ship,
but no one can seriously hold it when the only information to be
communicated was a stumble on the stairs.

Considering the enormous advantages which such an astral camera would
place in the hands of the detective police, I was not surprised to be
told that the office