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pass through a door, the door seems to pass through the phantom." This speed may be produced by the Double's own desire, or be independent of it, and inexplicable. The top speed appears to be that of thought, though not necessarily the result of it. It wipes out the Double's consciousness, which returns at the end of the journey. It may take him, instantaneously, a hundred or a thousand miles away. This question of speeds will be reviewed later.) On this occasion, Muldoon was carried unwittingly to a room inside a strange house in which were four people, one of them a girl of about seventeen who "was sewing upon a black dress". He moved about the place, trying to discover why he had been brought there, and made a careful study of the lady; then, after noting that the room was an apartment in a farmhouse, he willed himself back into his own body. Six weeks later, when Muldoon had almost forgotten that particular adventure, he noticed, one afternoon, a girl get out of a car and enter one of the neighbouring houses, and at once recognized her as the girl he had seen sewing at the farmhouse. He decided to wait till she should reappear, and when she did so, went up and spoke to her. "Excuse me," he began, "would you tell me where you live?" Not a very propitious opening, and, not unnaturally, he was told to mind his own business. But he persisted, and explained the circumstance of their former meeting, which he described with such convincing accuracy that at last the girl relented, no doubt intrigued by such a mysterious introduction, and consented to make his acquaintance. "One thing led to another," he writes. "I began to like her. I have seen her many times since, have seen her home (exactly as it was in the conscious projection), which is fifteen miles as