s I should say young spirits — one dark and the other fair； appeared in the lighted room。 I conversed with and touched them both； and noted that their flesh seemed to be firm but cold。 I remember that； being a forind； I even asked the prettier of the two to allow me to give her a kiss。 She smiled but did not seem to be at all annoyed； but I never got the kiss。 I think she remarked that it was not permissible。
She was draped in a kind of white garment which covered her head； and I asked her to allow me to see her hair。 She pushed up the white drapery from her forehead； remarking sweetly that if I would look I should see that she had no hair； and in fact she appeared to be quite bald。 A minute or two later； however； she had long and beautiful hair which flowed all about her。
Afterwards either she or the other apparition remarked that she was tired。 Thereon her body seemed to shrink； with the result that； as her head remained where it was； the neck elongated enormously； after the fashion of Alice in Wonderland。 Then she fell backwards and vanished altogether。
To this day I wonder whether the whole thing was illusion； or； if not； what it can have been。 Of one thing I am certain — that spirits； as we understand the term； had nothing to do with the matter。 On the other hand I do not believe that it was a case of trickery； rather I am inclined to think that certain forces with which we are at present unacquainted were set loose that produced phenomena which； perhaps； had their real origin in our own minds； but nevertheless were true phenomena。
Sometimes these phenomena were purely physical。 Thus I and some other of the Scoones students’ arranged a seance at the house of the uncle of one of them in St。 James’s Place； where no such thing had ever been