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Mr. Patmore himself I thought he might be playing a trick on me, and, for no reason at all, felt rather annoyed with him. I had to pass his table to get to the door, and as I passed he was reading a newspaper. Mr. Patmore returned about 3 p.m. and started to tell me about his guest at lunch, but I replied, 'You did not lunch at your club, I saw you distinctly in the restaurant.' He denied this and was able to prove that he had been at his club all the time. "It was about this time that patients complained to me that Mr. Patmore had 'cut' them in the street or at the theatre, and I had difficulty in convincing them that this was not so, and that they must have seen the man I now called his 'double'. "Having worked with Mr. Patmore for some five years at this date, I knew him very well and kept his appointment book for him, so that when I sometimes met his 'double' in the West End, I knew he was at the other end of London. At this time he frequently told me that people had complained that he had passed them in the street without recognition. One of the waitresses at the Devonshire Club, where he dined almost every evening, was very upset because she had seen him in the street on many occasions and he had looked right through her, although he was always particularly charming and courteous to her in the club. It turned out that he had never been in the street at the times she stated she had seen him. "It is only since I have read of the existence of the 'Etheric Double' that I have realized it was not a man resembling Mr. Patmore I and others saw, but that he was out of his body at the time and we were seeing this 'Etheric Double'. "It is interesting to note that at this particular period Mr. Patmore was changing over from a very successful business man to a psychic healer, and the process was not a happy one. At times he would be very nervy and very difficult to