“May Clerke.”
In answer to inquiries Mrs. Clerke says:—
“(1) The day of the death was the same, for I wrote it down. I think it was the third of August, but I know it was the same.
“(2) The description ‘very tall and pale’ was accurate.
“(3) I had no idea he was ill. He was only a few days ill.
“(4) The woman had never seen him. She had been with me about eighteen months and I considered her truthful. She had no object in telling me.”
Her husband, Colonel Clerke, corroborates as follows:—
“I well remember that on the day on which Mr. John Brersford, my wife’s brother, died in Tobago—after a short illness of which we were not aware—our black nurse declared she saw, at as nearly as possible the time of his death, a gentleman exactly answering to Mr. Brersford’s description, leaning over the back of Mrs. Clerke’s easy-chair in the open verandah. The figure was not seen by any one else.
“Shadwell H. Clerke.”
In this instance, looking upon the dying brother as the agent and the sister as the intended percipient, the question arises, why was she unable to perceive the telepathic influence which presented the likeness of her brother, while the colored nurse, an entire stranger to him, sees and describes him standing by his sister’s chair and apparently anxious that she should recognize him?