The boy—I call them all boys because I was over a hundred when I lived here and they are all boys to me—he says, he is here, but he says:—
"Hitherto it has been a thing of the head, now I am come over it is a thing of the heart."
What is more (here Peters jumped up in his chair, vigorously, snapped his fingers excitedly, and spoke loudly)—
"Good God! how father will be able to speak out! much firmer than he has ever done, because it will touch our hearts."
(Here ends extract from Peters sitting of 27
September 1915. A completer record will be
found in [Chapter VII].)
At a Leonard Table Sitting on 12 October 1915—by which time our identity was known to Mrs. Leonard—I told 'Myers' that I understood his Piper message about Faunus and the Poet; and the only point of interest about the reply or comment is that the two following sentences were spelt out, purporting to come either indirectly or directly from 'Myers':—
1. He says it meant your son's tr[ansition].
2. Your son shall be mine.
The next 'Myers' reference came on 29 October, when I had a sitting with Peters, unexpectedly and unknown to my family, at his London room (15 Devereux Court, Fleet Street)—a sitting arranged for by Mr. J. A. Hill for an anonymous friend:—