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CHAPTER IX ETHERIC PERPLEXITIES So far the consistency of the Etheric Double has simplified our consideration of its displays, but there are many apparently adjacent problems which are of a more complex texture. Of by no means rare occurrence is the type known as an arrival case, where there is a seemingly pointless appearance in advance of an unconscious and unaccountable agent. Here is a typical example, with rather exceptional corroboration, taken from Phantasms of the Living. The narrator is the late Rev. W. Mountford, of Boston, U.S.A., a well-known minister and author; but the incident occurred in the Fen district of Norfolk, England, where Mr. Mountford was staying with some intimate friends. They were two brothers, C. and R. Coe, who had married two sisters, and they lived about a mile apart on the same country road, there being only two or three houses between. On a clear day in March, at four o'clock in the afternoon, Mr. Mountford was looking out of Mr. Clement Coe's front window, which was about ten yards from the road, when he saw Robert Coe and his wife driving towards the house in an open vehicle. He said to his host, "Here is your brother coming." Mr. Coe came to the window, and, looking out, said: 1 The foregoing appreciation of Vincent Turvey was written while I was still unaware that he was no longer with us. "Oh yes, there he is; and, see, Robert has got Dobbin out at last. Dobbin was the horse which, on account of an accident, had not been used for some weeks. His hostess also came to